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...shows the war between a squad of G men and the Leggett gang, a war characterized by incidents which will remind audiences of the Union Station massacre in Kansas City, the unsuccessful attempt to arrest John Dillinger in his St. Paul apartment and finally the siege of the Little Bohemia roadhouse which, as reenacted in G Men, has very different consequences from the death of an agent and the escape of Bandit Dillinger. In G Men, Brick Davis and his companions surround a Wisconsin roadhouse in which the remnants of the Leggett gang are carousing with their women and shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Three jolly young Germans, two of them stalwart youths and the third a pretty girl, burst shouting and laughing last month into a lonely Czechoslovak inn among the crags of snow-mantled Bohemia. They had come from Kiel to ski, they announced, and ski they did day after day, seeming to take no notice of the tiny inn's only other guest. Closelipped, morose and nervous, Herr Rudolf Wormys spent most of the time in his bedroom with the thick wooden door heavily bolted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Murder Party | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred of police. After he had killed Federal Agent W. Carter Baum during an ambush at the Little Bohemia roadhouse at Spider Lake, Wis. the Department of Justice marked him down for certain death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Two for One | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites totaling 85 Ib. plunged through the roof of a room in Braunau, Bohemia where three children were sleeping. In 1917 a 150-lb. stone fell within the town limits of Colby, Wis. In 1924 a 14- Ib. stone hit a Colorado highway a few feet behind a funeral procession. Last year in France a burning farmhouse in which three persons perished was thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteors | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dead & Alive | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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