Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortress-like metal refinery in Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...
...officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast...
...Machado government did not take this lying down. Within an hour three motors full of gunmen cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped and hid in the Uruguayan Legation where he was promptly joined by another opposition leader, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...pitched out rubbed his lacerated head and began mumbling words of gratitude to the angry throng of golfers that surrounded him. He said he was one Joseph Myda, 45. The automobile's other passengers, he said, were Cleveland gunmen who had been taking him for a "ride." They had got into the wrong lane, made a sudden turn and debouched upon the teeming, angry. Cherry Ridge fairways. Grateful Mr. Myda was sent away to a hospital. Elyria's growling linksmen returned to their games...
...gansters to aid in this return will prove to be the most efficacious method remains to be seen. The irony of the situation is obvious enough. It is only natural that Colonel Lindbergh should employ all possible means and, granting conditions in America, the two New York gunmen seem best able to achieve results. Certainly the inability of the local police to deal with the crime has been demonstrated and there are in the case many good arguments for a national police force. But what is most indicative of the present trend in America is the manner in which...