Word: druggan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, and to a lesser extent throughout the country. James Herbert Wilkerson is something of a judicial hero. His promotion by President Hoover was frankly the result of "his splendid service" in curbing gang activities. He it was who sent notorious Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake to jail. Last summer he capped a long and successful record of imprisoning gangsters when he refused to countenance a "deal" between Scarface Capone himself, his Federal prosecutor and the U. S. Attorney General's office whereby Capone was to swap a plea of guilty to income tax evasion for a light sentence. When...
...Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...
...days later the newspapers had another Capone story to play up, this time with Capone as the Hero. Searching the apartment of Gangster Terrence Druggan, police found a letter conspiring to kill Capone. Excerpt: "I am in a position to take care of the big fellow. I can do anything you want me to." Ignoring other items of news-interest in the Druggan raid, editors headlined CAPONE ON SPOT...
Though the list included Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, George ("Bugs") Moran, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and other Grade A gangsters, only eight minor figures were rounded up by police during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker...