Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, 14 days after the kidnaping, a phone tip led police to the deserted house, where they found young Fu Iam and Tony Fong half starved and temporarily paralyzed by their bindings. The gang had decamped an hour before, learning of their betrayal just as they had finished slicing young Fu Iam's ears...
...year old laborer was pummeled, but not serious injured, by a gang of five described as "townies" in front of Matthews Hall about 11 p.m. last night...
While the gang was getting rid of Sticht, police were questioning the Panther captured at the gas station. He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school. Not one Panther mentioned the murder of Sticht. When they got out in 1949, Werner drew up a constitution for the gang: "Security for all members, adequate living standards, 1,500,000 Deutsche Mark ($357,143) to be amassed by all possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time...
Young & Silly. They also fell in with a 24-year-old petty criminal named Albrecht Sticht, who persuaded them to rob a service station. But a night watchman foiled the gang and grabbed one of the boys as they tried to get away. In a fiery rage. Werner decided to kill Sticht. "It's hard to say exactly why," mused Hugo last week. "We were young and silly then. Sticht had joined our gang later and we didn't trust him." At Werner's orders, Sticht was lured to a lonely house and shot in the back...
...liquor gushes out!" Arrested in Belgium, Garageowner Edouard Welcomme and his wife implicated others, and soon the town of Hazebrouck was filled with denunciations and counter-denunciations. Result: Abel Vandamme, a rich textile manufacturer living in a castle near Lille, and accused of being the "brain" of a gang of brandy siphoners, went on trial with 26 others in Hazebrouck last week for what French police grandly called the biggest alcohol fraud in French history...