Word: desperado
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President Coolidge sent 5,000 Marines and bluejackets in 1926 to catch him. President Hoover branded him only last year as a desperado who must be exterminated. Lurking in the hills and jungles of northern Nicaragua, he and his 500 guerrillas slew 135 U. S. officers & men before President Hoover withdrew the Marines (TIME, Jan. 9). Last week Nicaragua's arch-desperado and Robin Hood, tough little General Augusto Cesar Sandino, flew down from his mystery base in the north to Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and was smartly saluted by 50 native National Guardsmen (trained by U. S. Marines...
...shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot gun in his mouth and blown out his brains...
...bomb go off. Looking out from his office he saw the prison yard suddenly seething with a bloody, vicious riot. A dozen convicts had captured Deputy Warden Giles. Three hundred others were milling in the yard armed with clubs and rocks. Some had guns. Louis Deathridge, a Missouri desperado, ran to the wall with a rope which had a hook on the end. He hurled the hook over the wall, started to climb. A blast of gunfire from the guards above sent Desperado Deathridge spinning. The prisoners in the yard roared with rage, retrieved his body...
...windows. The three convicts returned the fire. As their ammunition began to run low, failure stared at them. They forced one of the guards to write a note to the warden, demanding his car to take them from the prison, threatening to blow up the building if he refused. Desperado Germano added: "Have plenty of explosives." They threw the note out of the window. Finally the answer came: a tear gas bomb. Another followed. When the third bomb came hurtling through the window Germano said...
...machine gun in the rumble seat, alert Policeman Ripley covered him with the weapon he had hidden beneath his rain-cape. The officer marched his prisoner, hands in the air, through the rain to the police station. Word soon flashed throughout the East that James Nannery, ruthless young desperado wanted dead or alive in New York for killing a patrolman, fugitive from Sing Sing since 1928, suspected of many a big holdup including the unsuccessful one at Brooklyn Navy Yard (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) had been captured. His girl friend, who fled in the coupe, was taken not long after...