Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blood, famed killer of Gambler Rosenthal, was in Mike's public school class. Some of Mike's pals grew up to be rich; one of them became a gunman. Mike ends his own story at the point where he tired of selling papers and began to look for a job-not because he wanted to be rich (he hated capitalism) but to stay alive...
...gunman, brandishing an automatic, is bragging of his marksmanship to a newsman...
...psychologist, Safety Director Edwin D. Barry of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., last week armed his police with sawed-off repeating shotguns, ordered them to hunt day and night in twelve hour shifts "until you get the Hook-Nosed Gunman dead or alive!" No slasher, the Hook-Nosed Gunman had shot three Cleveland women up to last week, had forced two more to yield to his amorous advances at pistol point, had caused Safety Director Barry to exclaim, "A woman isn't safe on the streets of Cleveland...
Sensational evidence was provided by Inspector Joseph J. Donovan of the Bureau of Criminal Identification who declared that his subordinates had learned that the hold-up had been a fake. Alleged reason: Ciro Terranova had negotiated with a Chicago gunman to kill two famed gangsters, Frankie Marlow, who was found with three shots through his head near a Flushing, L. I., cemetery (TIME, July 8) and Frankie Yale, who was riddled while automobile driving in Brooklyn (TIME. July 9, 1928). Terranova had signed a contract agreeing to pay $20,000 for the two killings. He had delivered...