Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus another U.S. badman was sentimentally memorialized last week in a ballad freshly recorded for the jukebox trade. Carl Shelton, a country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October...
...gunman ordered Harper to clear out, and Harper followed suit by running out the back gate and thence down Palmer Street toward Brattle...
...students gave chase to the Coop bandits this morning but were stymied when a gunman wielded the wrong end of a ".32 or a .36" menacingly at his pursners. They told their story to the CRIMSON in an exclusive interview today...
Farewell & Hail. In Harlingen, Tex., Gunman H. C. Patterson hurriedly robbed the First National Bank of 32?, rushed out the door right into the open door of a police...
...upstairs, showed them it wasn't in the jewel box. The thugs spotted a 300-lb. safe, told her to open it. "I can't," she wept. "Take it." She knew the ring was in the safe. "Aaah, how can I carry a 300-lb. safe?" the gunman asked in disgust. The pair emptied her jewel box, locked Sayde and the maid in a closet and beat it. Sayde wound up in a hospital with a fractured skull. The crooks' heist...