Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago gunmen held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice...
...pursuit by Federal agents of John Dillinger-the shooting at Little Bohemia, near Rhinelander, Wis. on April 22, 1934, when agents under Purvis' direction surrounded Dillinger's hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through the woods at night, of his attempted resignation when the full proportions...
Died. Louis William ("Bridgie") Webber, 59, Manhattan gambler who turned State's evidence in 1912 to convict Manhattan Police Lieut. Charles Becker and four gunmen-"Lefty" Louis Rosenberg, Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago" Frank Cirofici-of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal; of peritonitis; on the 21st anniversary of Becker's electrocution; in Passaic, N. J., where for 22 years he had managed a paper-box factory...
Last week the State of Utah paid five gunmen $25 each to hide behind a screen, shoot a man dead. In a fit of jealousy, dim-witted young Delbert Green had killed his wife, his mother-in-law and her husband, delayed his execution for six years by fruitless appeals. Finally given a choice between rope and firing squad, he shrugged, got shooting because it was cheaper...
Workers who joined the union, said they, were being dismissed. Steel superintendents were exhorting their men to stand by their company unions. Workers were being forced to sign petitions against the organization drive. An organizer had been run out of Steubenville, Ohio. Steel plants were importing gunmen, storing up "veritable arsenals...