Word: convict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
Back shot the testy little Virginian, mentioning no names: "I may say that whatever prestige, if any, I may have was not gotten by using my position as a member of the Banking & Currency Committee of either house of Congress to gamble in foreign exchange with a prison-convict partner nor in any attempt to influence the action of the Federal Reserve authorities for my own pecuniary benefit...
Snarled a convict: "Guess we'd better take all of you. You guys take off your clothes. We need...
...hours and 54 miles away from San Quentin, the convicts sighted a creamery, jumped. The convict-clothed boardmen tumbled out of the careening automobile, screaming their identity just in time to keep police from shooting them down. The convict leader peered from a creamery window, got two barrels of buckshot full in the face. At that the other three, all wounded, marched out with hands in air and the most sensational break in San Quentin's history was over...
Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay seriously hurt, the convict leader died. To the shock of Boardmen Atherton, Stephens and Sykes was added chagrin when the recaptured convicts confessed that it was Clyde Stevens who had smuggled their guns into the prison. Next day on a swampy island in the Sacramento River, police caught Bandit Stevens...