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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Left His Dear Old Mother | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...gunman ordered Harper to clear out, and Harper followed suit by running out the back gate and thence down Palmer Street toward Brattle...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Gunman Deters 2 Students In Pursuit of Coop Plunder | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Gunman Deters 2 Students In Pursuit of Coop Plunder | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Moe the Gonif | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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