Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude toward earning a living that Bull Moore particularly charmed the streetcorner, poolroom and blind-tiger high-school set of Syracuse in the Prohibition era. Work did not appeal to him. Just where this adventurous buck got his money was something of a mystery but his pockets always seemed to be well lined...
Among the exemplary things about Bull Moore was his response to drink and women. Bull was a man's man. Doubtless, he could have held more liquor without showing it than anyone else in town, but no one ever saw him drunk. He could have made a conquest of almost any girl he wanted but his dealings with the other sex were notable for old-fashioned chivalry. Bull would not even let his friends boast about their conquests in his presence...
...Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. In 1927, a grocer accused of selling liquor complained that a young bully posing as a policeman had walked in and taken $50, promising to have the accusation quashed. Bull Moore was tried for this offense. He got a six-month sentence which the judge suspended...
...cars were going fast. One of the gang, John Sherry, was killed. Two of the others, Roger Norton and William Carleton, were caught and jailed. The fourth man disappeared. Soon after the robbery Bull Moore ceased to be seen in upper New York State and the police began to look...
...truth about John Montague came out last week but not on a golf course. It came out in Los Angeles County Jail where he was taken after being arrested because his fingerprints matched those of La Verne ("Bull") Moore...