Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solomon, who was on her way to a corset shop, lunged into Manhattan's heavy crosstown traffic. Klika, charging after him, jumped on the running board. Just as he did, the gunman put his gun to his head and shot himself. He was identified as Lyman Finnell, ex-convict and parole violator. Several blocks away another of the thugs was run to ground in a taxi. He was one Joseph Kress, a young man with an old record. Desperado No. 3 escaped...
...insurance-company investigator, goes to the log and deer country where Agnes Earlie, wife of a local doctor, has been shot with a high-power, steel-jacketed rifle bullet. Finding no motive in $20,000 insurance, Patterson becomes Dr. Earlie's guest, quietly garners enough circumstantial evidence to convict the Doctor or any one of several people who loved and respected Mrs. Earlie. A first-rate story, it is short on blood, long on plot and psychology...
...Convict McGovern Miller, abed in Sing Sing prison hospital, woke one murky morning this week to a nightmare sight. Out of their beds leaped three fellow felons, fully clothed and armed with guns. Quick as murder they shot and killed the guard in the hospital ward, vanished through the door. That was the last Convict Miller saw of them...
...doors with keys which they had long since prepared. The tunnel opened on the side of a railroad embankment, down which they slid and ran along the tracks. In Water Street they were spotted by two cops. They fired, killing Patrolman James Fagan. Patrolman William Nelson fired back, drilling Convict James Waters through the heart. The other two, Joseph Riordan and Charles McGale, pelted river-wards. On the bank they found a shad fisherman, forced him to row them across the Hudson...
...been a lethal morning. Dead lay four men: Prison Guard John Hartye, Patrolman Fagan, Convict Waters, and Convict Miller, who had died of excitement in his hospital...