Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, Roger Touhy and three other members of Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang, were charged with the kidnapping of William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer. Arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. fortnight ago, they were first thought to have engineered the snatching of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, but Factor refused to identify them...
Four years ago Chicago had her St. Valentine's Day gang massacre. Sadder by far was this year's St. Valentine's Day bank massacre in Detroit-a massacre which closed both of Detroit's big banks, tying up $560,000,000 of deposits...
...Chicago police rounded up Roger Touhy and three members of the "Terrible Touhy" gang as suspects in the kidnapping of John Factor. The gang had been arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. for smashing into a telephone pole. Having paid a $22 fine they were about to drive on when a policeman found in their car seven pistols, a rifle, a golf bag full of ammunition, a roll of adhesive tape and 20 ft. of gauze-regular kidnapping equipment. One gangster explained: "We were up here fishing. We got one 17-lb. muskie. The guns? Why, we had those to shoot...
...manufacturing automobiles. The return of beer has similarly forced the nation's underworld into evolution. As was amply evidenced last week, the defunct beer racket is swiftly being superseded as a source of criminal revenue by the uglier, more desperate crime of kidnapping. Unlike a legitimate industry, a gang which has been running beer need not modify its plant or personnel to go in for snatching. A number of people are required as abductors, guards, intermediaries. These must be tough, resourceful, utterly unscrupulous if a professional job is to be done. Automobiles are needed, as well as a thorough...
...location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money changed hands, detectives shot the tires off the crooks' car, ran it into an iron fence, found two of the gang in it, beat them unmercifully. The third crook they caught later...