Word: gangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan police rounded up four members of a gang which staged phony automobile accidents to swindle insurance companies. The gang had a "flop man" who would throw himself under the wheels of a car, simulate serious injury, give a false name at the hospital. Later another member of the gang, picked because he had permanent scars or fractures, would go to the insurance company, say he was the victim, show his scars and collect...
Exploits in Savagery. Elsewhere, savage raids turned into brutal massacres. Four miles from Kastel, about 100 Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer...
...Chicago Sun-Times sympathized with McCabe as a "rebel" against Governor Green's machine. The Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested that the motive was simply robbery (the thugs took $40 from McCabe but left his expensive watch...