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Word: germano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sick," said Germano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Hornbogen ordered him to take off his shirt, approached to examine him. Germano whipped out a pistol, pressed it against the doctor's heart and fired. As the doctor fell, two trusties ran toward the convicts. Bullets dropped both. One died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...three convicts returned the fire. As their ammunition began to run low, failure stared at them. They forced one of the guards to write a note to the warden, demanding his car to take them from the prison, threatening to blow up the building if he refused. Desperado Germano added: "Have plenty of explosives." They threw the note out of the window. Finally the answer came: a tear gas bomb. Another followed. When the third bomb came hurtling through the window Germano said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Roseburg turned his pistol on himself. Germano sent a second bullet into Roseburg's head, then shot himself. Duver shot Germano again, put the muzzle of his pistol into his mouth, pulled the trigger. The hostage guards threw open the doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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