Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Magistrate Vitale and friends had feasted, sung and speechified, there were footfalls on the stairs. Seven men entered the room and held up the crowd. One of the gunmen had a handkerchief over his face and carried two revolvers; the others worked with faces bare and bland. They acquired some $5,000 worth of cash and jewelry and several firearms. They met no resistance at all from Police Detective Arthur C. Johnson, an imposing fellow who had held that position for 17 years and thrice been recommended for bravery. His gun was one of those taken away...
Patrolman Johnson testified that a few hours after the gunmen had escaped with their booty, Magistrate Vitale had called him into his office in the Tepicano Democratic Club nearby and there returned his revolver. He said he had asked the magistrate where he had procured the gun, where it had come from, and that the magistrate had replied: "I cannot tell you. . . I do not know...