Word: bandit
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...China's 400 millions who can read chuckled last week at vernacular newspaper accounts of a coup by the wily bandit chief of Megntzu. The 40% hastened to spread the story among their less literate brethren...
...months ago envious rivals declared war on the sedate Governor of Yunnan Province, Hu Jao-yu. Governor Hu lacked troops. Practical, he contracted for aid with a bandit chief well spoken of in the interior, promised him the Prefecture of the City of Megntzu and a camel-load of Mexican silver dollars...
Near Cheyenne, the Union Pacific's Portland Limited struck a loosened rail, went careening into an embankment. Then the bandit appeared. He was a little fellow with a wizened face and pale blond hair. He wore the shabby blue overalls of a section hand...
...bandit took no jewelry or other valuables. With a loot of no more than $800 he fled. He did not even look into the express car, where the dining car steward was hiding with $300 in cash. Out into the hills to catch the bandit "dead or alive" rode hundreds of searchers?sheriffs, deputies, policemen, railroad detectives, cowboys. Six suspects were rounded up, questioned, released. Then the hunt was abandoned...
...Peshawar, British India, anyone possessed of the sum of 6¢ could obtain a graphic idea of what King Nadir meant by "severe punishment." Photographs were on view, at 12 annas a peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...