Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Howard D. Mannington, 64, henchman of Warren Gamaliel Harding's presidential campaign, lessee of the Ohio Gang's ill-famed "little green house in K Street"; of a lingering illness; in Columbus, Ohio...
...with a machine-gun held up the State Bank of Clearing, 111., made off with $60,000 in cash. Last April officials of the bank identified as the gang's leader one Daniel McGeoghegan, once condemned to death or murder, a hoodlum and beer runner on the Chicago Crime Commission's list of public enemies...
...book was written after Means had served three years (1925-28) in Atlanta Penitentiary for bribery and violation of the Prohibition laws. Before that he had turned on his employer, onetime Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, with tall tales before a Senate Committee about the "Ohio Gang's" activities. Before the U. S. entered the War, he says, he served with the German spy system in the U. S., once received $1,000,000 from a German agent at a midnight rendezvous in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan. Further in his past lies an astounding record of crime and near-crime...
...slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Means said that the presence of a cleric...
...Tread softly and carry a big stick," were his first instructions, for the inmates were desperate men, and their treatment was desperate too. Total silence was enforced, the work-gang shuffled from & back to their cells. But it was from these same creatures who once were men, Old Chappleau at Clinton, and Mike the Rat Catcher later on, that Warden Lawes learned new penological lessons behind the parallel bars...