Word: bandit
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...discourage kidnapping by refusing to pay any ransoms whatever.* A rich prize is Capt. Charles Baker of Pasadena, who used to pilot a river boat from Shanghai up through the Yangtze rapids. In January he ran aground in Hupeh Province, somewhere near Kienli District which has a "Communist" bandit government. The Kienli bandits ferried Capt. Baker ashore, a most-valuable bit of salvage, and held him for ransom. Capt. Baker's friends promptly paid. This seemed so easy, the bandits of Kienli kept the money and the Captain, dangled their bait again & again. On one occasion the productive Captain...
...word of Mr. Owen's book, was T. Philip Perkins, one-time (1928) British amateur golf champion. On the eve of his final match in the Dixie Amateur, he attended Miami's Embassy Club, a gambling casino. While some local policemen were enjoying a light supper in the kitchen, bandits entered the casino for a holdup. Golfer Perkins was shot in the left thigh. The bandit leader was killed, several other persons wounded...
...murder of a noted bandit and racketeer is bound to be a matter of some interest to the "composite reader," When in addition the victim has successively over a seventeen-year period matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even...
...senatorial campaign was very expensive. Perfumer Coty lost partly be cause, misjudging the people he wished to represent, he dined publicly in Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...
...Brooklyn. Billy Byrne, 8, eldest of four, was his father's favorite. Every day he walked from school to his father's plumbing shop, rode home with his father in an old car. One day when they got home Billy slipped down into the basement to play bandit. All the family were at dinner when Billy entered the dining room carrying his father's shotgun. Boasted Bandit Billy: "I got a bullet in it." Billy's father stood up, walked toward his son. Billy shot him dead, burst into tears...