Word: gang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four kilometres from Salas, a gang of Catholic extremists attacked my train which traveled ahead of the Juarez passenger train. The fight lasted half an hour and the enemy fled when they noticed they were attacking a military instead of a passenger train...
...experience with German students and French students is that they gather together in knipes or corps or burschenschaften with a common table for the gang. English university students, of course, take their meals together in college halls, and that is conidered one of the great privileges. Harvard spirit is nothing if it is not a common spirit, a unified spirit and a spirit of friendship with a group of other men, such as educated men with intellectual interests will form and will enjoy all the rest of their lives...
...police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...
...ultimate issue in the case is obviously whether the two defendants were or were not members of a murder gang which drove into South Braintree one day in April, 1920, killed a paymaster, and made off with a payroll. The evidence directly connecting them with the crime was of the slightest. It is generally admitted that no connection has ever been established between them and any gang, and they have shown no signs of sudden enrichment. Their identification as persons who participated in the crime rested solely on the contradicted testimony of unreliable witnesses who claimed to have seen them...
After the case went to the Supreme Court new evidence was produced in the form of a confession by a member of a notorious criminal gang that the crime was committed by this gang. This was made the basis of another motion for a new trial which was likewise denied by the trial judge and from this ruling another appeal is now pending in the Supreme Court; but once more the Supreme Court will be faced only with the extremely narrow question of whether or not it can say that the trial judge in derying the motion went...