Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which...
Split Proceeds. In Spokane, the gunman who robbed Lyle Swenson, and failed to get away in a stalled car, offered to give part of the money back if Swenson would give the car a boost...
...scriptwriting catches so much of the vitality and fire of rabble-rousing politics, it is a pity that it also uses some too-familiar materials. When a henchman gets out of line, Stark's actions recall a dozen gangster movies: backed by a tiny, shifty-faced gunman, he props his feet on the table, snarls from the side of his mouth and turns his victim into quaking jelly; filled with lead from an assassin's revolver, Stark babbles improbable curtain lines that too carefully-dear up any audience doubt as to his power-mad aims...
...have got it right from his neighbors that he has the reputation of being a gunman and in this particular case he ... had a very beautiful weapon and was . . . prepared to do the work of a gunman. He was charged on two other occasions with doing the work of a gunman and, somehow or other, got out of it. Now I commit him to the penitentiary for one year...
...soon graduated to sterner enterprise. When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession of a pistol...