Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a rough and tumble fight in North End early yesterday morning, police captured Theodore Voutiritsa, 38, who they named as the last of the "Co-operative Gang," part of a long-existent crime fellowship that was responsible for the January 9 Coop stickup...
Loose talk was responsible for the eventual capture of the gang, and the two members who couldn't keep their mouths shut have kindled sparks of wrath and internal warfare in the under-world organization...
...became a national hero overnight, the prototype for all subsequent gang-busting radio programs. In his two years as special prosecutor, he made a record of 72 convictions out of 73 indictments; in his last year as D.A., 96.5% were convicted or pleaded guilty. His zeal for convictions led to one blunder. In 1938, his office got one Bertram Campbell convicted of forgery. Campbell spent three years in jail, was later found to be innocent. As governor, Dewey signed a bill giving Campbell the right to sue the state for damages. Campbell collected $115,000, died three months later...
Vantage Point. In Honolulu, a four-year file of unsolved burglaries was cleared up when police discovered that Prisoner Joseph Andrade had been sneaking off from the road gang during lunch...
...Kansas City police rounded up a gang of teen-agers who had kept motorists in a state of nerves for two months by I) driving slowly along downtown streets knocking windows out of parked cars with hammers, and 2) stealing machines and using them for "automobile jousts." Jousts were fought at a school ground by youths who drove two stolen cars at each other with the hand throttles open, leaped out seconds before the machines collided...