Word: copping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny (pop. 280) upstate New York town of Apalachin (pronounced apple-achin') and converged on the secluded hilltop estate of Joseph Barbara, a beer distributor known to be high up in the underworld. His curiosity pricked by the procession of strange Cadillacs and Imperials, an alert state cop called agents of the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax Unit in Albany. Surrounding the 53-acre estate, policemen halted 63 carefully tailored men-some at a roadblock, others fleeing through dense woods-and asked them who they were, where they came from and why they had come to Apalachin. After...
...slot-machine franchise, sold 18,000 bottles of illicit beer each week, boasted that he made $1,000,000 a year. He also made enemies: to Al Capone and his henchmen, Touhy was a natural rival and a menace. To Police Captain Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, often called "the richest cop in the world," he was fair game in the Chicago guerrilla war. But Roger got along until Matt Kolb was murdered by Capone bullets (Capone sent a $100 wreath to the funeral). After that, Touhy began to live in heavily armed fear, hired guards to protect his suburban home...
...killers. "I don't know exactly who did it, but I do know the Chicago mob was behind it," a shaken Ray Brennan told the coroner. "There are some other people you can bring here. Touhy had three enemies and he talked about them often. He regarded [ex-Cop Tubbo] Gilbert as his worst enemy. [Jake the Barber] Factor was Number 2, and [ex-State's Attorney] Thomas J. Courtney was Number 3. I'm not making any accusations; I'm simply saying what Touhy used...
...basement and just released. Factor said he was still wearing the same clothes in which he had been kidnaped-but his shirt and suit were clean and only slightly wrinkled. And there was another strange thing. Recalls Brennan: "One of the things that impressed me was a cop who noticed Factor's condition. He said, 'You don't spend twelve days in the summer in Chicago without a bath. You get to smelling pretty gamy.' But Factor...
...Kefauver crime-investigating Senate committee made by the then Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff. (Brennan was indicted for impersonating a federal employee, but the charges against him were dropped.) The testimony, as printed in the Sun-Times, showing that from gambling the candidate had become the "richest cop in the world," led to his defeat. The candidate: Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, onetime Chicago police captain, who had been the state's chief investigator in the Touhy case...