Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been arrested last month at Nevada City, 140 miles from San Francisco, as a suspect in the murder of Edmund Hansen, one of several recent killings in the past two years around the gold mines of the Mother Lode country in the Sierras. The police suspected a gang of hoodlums led by an ex-convict named Jack Santo, now on trial in Los Angeles for another murder. Boles, who had often been seen with members of the Santo gang, denied knowing anything about the Hansen murder, but repeatedly asked to see Chronicle Reporter Freeman. Finally the police agreed...
...Within an hour, she had his full confession, involving the Santo gang just as the police had suspected. Reporter Freeman knew just how to keep her story exclusive; George dictated his confession to the police but held off signing it for a day. When the Chronicle broke its Page One exclusive, the police were deluged with calls from Hearst's rival Examiner and later the Call-Bulletin. There was no confession yet, newsmen were correctly told. For two days the Chronicle played Bernice Freeman's beat, until Boles finally signed the confession...
...Italy's great writers, and these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...
...night there was an unusual amount of screaming and shouting. In the morning 20 people were missing. Dully the survivors realized that five soldiers in the bow seats had formed a murder gang...
...went down with the Rooseboom. She became a sort of spiritual mother for the derelicts. A few days before she died, she took a Bible that someone had salvaged and read a religious service to all her companions. Not long after that, Gibson organized a counterattack against the murder gang and threw them overboard...