Word: bandit
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...Martin, British Consul at Foochow, sailed up the Min River last week with $50,000 in a satchel and a sharp note for one Lu Sing-pan, bandit chief. Earlier in the week the Misses Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Harrison, members of the British Church Missionary Society, were fleeing from the district of Changsha, which was captured and looted fortnight ago by bandit-Communist troops (TIME...
...them were built in China.† Water in the Siang-Kiang river was so low last week that destroyers could not navigate it. To rescue U. S. citizens the flatdecked little Palos which can float wherever it is three feet deep, nosed its way over the sandbars to Changsha. Bandit bullets ricocheted off her armored deck house, wounded five U. S. seamen. Loaded with refugees, the Palos dropped down stream again...
...Natchez Trace was the best but most dangerous road from New Orleans to the Midwest. Ol' Man Mississippi brought the cargoes down, but it was more than sail or paddle could do to get all the way upstream again. The gold went back in saddle bags over the narrow, bandit-infested trail stretching from Natchez, Miss, to Knoxville, Tenn...
...investigator, known throughout the West for his sensational coups. It was Lavine who in 1922 found Clara Phillips ("Hammer Murderess") in Honduras after her escape from jail, and induced her to return to face a life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains that led to the arrest of William Edward Hickman for the butchery of Marion Parker...
Excerpt: "Around Deadwood Dick, whose real name was Richard Clarke, were woven romance and daring. But much written about him was fiction. He was not a desperado, not a bandit, stage-coach robber, or brigand. ... He was a good citizen, a necessarily rough character in the days when it was part of the life of the west, but withal not a bad man. . . . He was born in England, baptized and confirmed in the Church of England...