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...percentages from the cleaners and dyers, because one night last week, after "Big Tim's" doorbell had rung and he had answered it, an automobile rolled slowly by in the dark street, spitting a mechanical stream of fire and lead. "Big Tim" died where he stood. Accustomed to gangster funerals in Chicago, the United Press issued a laconic bulletin on the Murphy ceremony before it took place. "A cortege a mile long, with scores of automobiles bearing floral tributes . . . etc., etc." But the U. P. guessed poorly. Chicago is changing a little. The Chicago Crime Commission, under a small...
...inclined to, rejoice. . . . That is the short view. The man who killed O'Banion was tougher and more resourceful than O'Banion; the man who killed Hymie Weiss was tougher than his victim; and the man who killed Murphy was a harder egg than Murphy. As one gangster is killed off he is succeeded by an-other who is less restrained by the standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend...
Died. Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy, Chicago gangster; in Chicago...
Died. Frank Uale, gangster; in Brooklyn
...told that Clara Bow can do things other than reveal her stimulating figure. She can act, tensely, convincingly. She has gone the way of Gloria Swanson-from sex appeal to genuine histrionics (including sex appeal). In this picture, she is a lady gangster who has not forgotten that the forces of the law "burned" her father in the electric chair. After a bank robbery and a narrow escape, she persuades her young pal (Richard Arlen) to give up the gun game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California. There she is as loving a wife...