Rescue
At the Rubeck farm, searchers converged on Hollenbaugh and Peggy Ann. He opened fire with a pistol, ducked behind a corncrib and ran across the road to the porch of a farmhouse. Two shots rang out simultaneously—one fired by Larry Rubeck, 15, from the farmhouse, the other by a state policeman. Hollenbaugh fell dying.
At first it was thought that Larry Rubeck had killed Hollenbaugh. That was reported in newspapers published that afternoon, May 18, 1966, and the following morning. Later it was determined that State Trooper Grant H. Mixell fired the fatal shot.
Peggy Ann was taken to the Fulton County Medical Center and reunited with her family. She had no serious injuries and had not been sexually assaulted, but her feet were badly blistered and she was dehydrated. She gave an interview with the media a few days later. She left the Medical Center on June 1.
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Famous quotes containing the word rescue:
“When in the sea-light every early game
Was played with love and, if death’s waters came,
You’d rescue me. How I would take you from,
Now, if I could, its whirling vacuum.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)
“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There’s no way of sustaining our children if we don’t first rescue ourselves. I don’t call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”
—Joyce Maynard (20th century)
“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)