Word: colles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen R. Brooks, of Centre Newton, Mass, (Radcliffe College, 1934). Lonis A. Cook, Jr. '34, of Sandusky, Ohio, Edith A. Hickey, of Roslindale, Mass (Radcliffe Coll., 1934). Charles D. Keet, of Pretoris, Transvaal, South Africa, A.B. (Transvaal Univ.) 1919; A.M. (Potchesfsiroom Univ.) 1924. Instructor, Boys' High School, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, Mae F. Rastall, of Washington. D.C. (Mt. Holyoke Coll...
...Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll was the kind of a gangster that big gangsters mortally fear. He was out to make his reputation as a killer, and he figured that the ratio of his own importance would increase with the importance of the criminals he killed. He had leaders like Owney Madden quite nervous until two men put the finger on him in a telephone booth last winter...
Just before sudden death overtook him. Mad Dog Coll took to wife Lottie Kreisberger, a small brunette who publicly promised to reform her hoodlum mate. After his death Mrs. Coll appears to have given up all thought of reform, for she was once arrested for carrying a gun and last week was indicted for murder in The Bronx...
Joseph Ventre, a cheap little crook indicted with the dead gunman's widow, was not long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed...
...Coll had not been married into the underworld for nothing. She resolutely refused to give any in formation, and when confronted with Ventre, classically cried: "So you squealed...