Word: danees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead, sped away. When he smashed up his car, he used his gun to persuade motorists to give him lifts. Officers traced the police-killer closely for an hour, then lost him. The wrecked car was registered in the name of Frederick Dane, owner of a commodious home on St. Joe's Lake Shore Drive...
Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
...Joseph he was known as a retired businessman, an obliging fellow who visited sick neighbors and courted the esteem of established citizens. One neighbor recalled that "Dane" once borrowed a shotgun from him to go rabbit hunting...
...Plum!" to a Dane and he will think of butter-vital Danish export...
...lineup of the Harvard 1932 team against Browne and Nichols follows: l.e., W. F. Croskery; l.t., W. M. Crosby; l.g., D. P. Ketcham; c., R. M. Ayer; qr.g., J. M. Blake; r.t., A. S. Dane; r.e., C. W. Wickersham; q.b., W. E. Hutchins; l.h.b., D. R. Weir; r.h.b., T. J. McKay; f.b., B. Pool...