More than 100 years ago in October 1919, Romanian immigrant Luca Tipurla was shot dead near his Saginaw, Michigan home. Tipurla had recently quarreled with his neighbor, Alexander Ripan, who owned a pistol. The authorities asked a local gunsmith to determine whether Ripan’s gun had fired the fatal round. “After examining the revolver and the bullet,” t…
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