Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio can't be proud of the "gang," of course, but it's going pretty strong for a West Virginian [Newsstand Buyer Sands, TIME, Feb. 21] to get uppitty. What's West Virginia but Ohio's coal bin? Just a dirty, disheveled stretch of mine dumps and scraggly mountains, filled with a bunch of ignorants that only know enough to swing picks and drink moonshine. That's one reason you can't spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce...
...slow" state. But all a gentleman can think after living his lifetime in West Virginia and hearing him talk is that Ohio must be just as bad as they say it is, full of depraved creatures, no account presidents, unjust laws, terrible climate and the Ohio "gang" (Forbes, Daugherty and worse). If he couldn't have fun on Sunday in West Virginia he couldn't have fun in Heaven, and he will never get there either...
With the imprisonment of Charles Birger, the two gangs which have for ten months terrorized the district in and around Williamson County, Ill.-"Bloody Williamson," ill-famed for Herrin killings-are leaderless. Birger himself captained one gang; now he plays pinochle with himself in a jail cell at Benton, Ill., while eight armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there...
...April, 16 people have died by bullet or dynamite, a state highway patrolman has been murdered and his wife kidnaped, probably killed, though her body has not been found. Two other women have been killed-one of whom is said to have begun the Shelton-Birger feud when both gang-kings courted her favor. Law-officers for the most part life-loving, peace-seeking, have shut eyes, stopped ears, waited...
...wars, each party has its victories to boast, its defeats to alibi. The Shelton adherents slapped thighs, exchanged felicitations over the destruction of "Shady Rest", an old roadhouse fortified as Birger headquarters. In November, some of the Shelton gang, progressive, modern-minded, bought an airplane, dropped bombs, scarred the landscape, missed "Shady Rest." Undiscouraged, they waited for a dark January night, crept close up under "Shady Rest's" steel-barred windows, stacked dynamite against its walls. A roar, a glare, and "Shady Rest" was a flaming ruin, tenanted by four dead bodies-three men, one woman. But Gunman Birger...