Word: gangsterisms
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...Court then signed the nolle prosse order. Gangster McGeoghegan, grinning widely, walked from the room free...
...trial one man hung the jury. Last week Assistant State's Attorney Walker Butler asked Judge John Prystalski to quash the case against Gangster McGeoghegan. Judge Prystalski later said he "nearly fell off the bench" with surprise...
Vaguely Chicago had realized that it was a longstanding practice among the local banditti to terrorize witnesses used against them by prosecutors. But citizens were aghast at this public admission of and surrender to the fact. A few days later Gangster McGeoghegan, born in Chicago's criminal spawning grounds "Back of the Yards," was reindicted. Witness Bere, promised a police escort, told a grand jury that he would again appear for the prosecution. Next job was up to Chicago's detectives : find Daniel McGeoghegan...
Died. Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, 34, leading Brooklyn racketeer; shot to death while returning with his family from a tap & strut dancing exhibition by his 7-year-old daughter; in Brooklyn. Mrs. Higgins said her husband had been fired upon by two gangster-laden sedans but police believed he had stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole...
Presently Lawyer Corrigan is called upon to make a difficult decision. He has a chance to be made governor if he refrains from convicting his gangster friend for murder. Instead, with icy contempt for his listeners, his career and his gangster friend, he sets out to obtain a conviction. Director George Archainbaud directed State's Attorney with a feeling, rare in the cinema, for the trivial and revealing irrelevance of his characters in speech and action. Good shot: Lawyer Corrigan slipping a wedding ring on the finger of Helen Twelvetrees when he is trying to prove that...