Word: desperado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine Notches. From then on, there was great respect for Elfego and his triggerfinger in New Mexico. He killed five more men at various times-all, he said, in self-defense. The threat of a gun duel with Baca was usually enough to calm any New Mexican desperado. As the country quieted, Elfego studied law, became county clerk, district attorney, school superintendent, mayor of Socorro. As a prosecutor, he sent many murderers to their deaths. As a defense attorney, he won acquittal for 19 out of 20 clients charged with murder. One story (probably apocryphal): a client wired him from...
...years, Convict Buchalter had become politically significant. A minor desperado had grown into the first tangible issue between potential 1944 Presidential Candidates Tom Dewey and Franklin Roosevelt...
Died. Dr. John E. Osborne, 84, onetime governor of Wyoming (1893-95) ; in Rawlins, Wyo. He once had a pair of shoes fashioned from the hide of George "Big Nose") Parrott, posse-lynched desperado...
...daughter Barbara," explains Author Bemelmans airily, in this latest funny travelogue. Barbara, aged three-and-a-half, is the intimate of "the captains of at least half a dozen liners," and "pen pal of some future desperado." Barbara has met nice people everywhere, "and left them nicely alone." Her heart belongs to Daddy and to a host of "socially maladjusted" bums and crooks she has picked up in Cuba, Paris, Gramercy Park, Chile, Peru, Ecuador...
...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...