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...foggy morning last week 17 convicts and two guards trudged out to a timber patch on a prison farm near Crockett, Tex. Suddenly Convict Joe Palmer dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared...
...Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
...Chicago today is a cleaner town than New York," commented Frank J. Loesch, noted Chicago lawyer, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon. Mr. Loesch reviewed his fight to convict Chicago gangsters in a speech he delivered last night in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...
...Tallahassee, Fla. Gerald 0. Steele, convict, serving 15 years on the chain gang, was informed that his sentence had been reduced to five years because he had written to the Pardon Board and Governor Dave Sholtz praising the chain gang system...
...unlike most of his colleagues, writes from his own eight-year experience as a Pinkerton detective. ''The first three or four years were fun," says he. "Then it got tedious. . . . The funniest case I ever worked on was the Arbuckle affair in San Francisco. In trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player...