Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accuser was Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, wife of a night truck driver. One night last June a gang of robed Klansmen broke into her house, accused her of "dancing nude on her front porch," renting rooms to unmarried couples, and selling whisky. They hit her a couple of times, then hustled her outside in her nightgown to watch a cross burn on her front lawn. ("It sure was pretty," testified a neighbor...
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...join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that he was 'chaplain of the 13th Kansas' as the grim-faced boy blew out his brains...
...Mind Your Ps and Qs." In the fall of 1865 Jesse drifted back to Clay County, Mo. with other guerrillas "who refused to believe that the war was over." There was scarcely a Saturday night that Jesse's gang didn't shoot up Liberty, the county-seat. There Jesse was arrested for the first & only time in his life-by a Republican sheriff who let him and his gang go with a mild warning "to mind their Ps and Qs." The James gang sneered. In February 1866 they thundered back into Liberty and held up a bank...
During the next 15 years, in half a dozen states, the James gang robbed scores of banks and trains, killed ruthlessly, and often for no reason at all. Most of the killings were committed at close range, for Jesse's marksmanship was "miserable." Readers who believe that Missouri's most famous killer stole to give to the poor have been Robin Hoodwinked, Author Horan says, and assembles impressive evidence to prove his point. On the credit side, Dingus gets two gold stars from his biographer: 1) "He appeared to be faithful to his wife and to be fond...