Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shop. Torrio attended the $50,000 funeral with Capone, looked at his dead foe, murmured disconsolately: "Poor Dion." But the floral wreath he sent was dumped in an ashcan, and Torrio fled to Hot Springs, Ark., to New Orleans, to the Bahamas, to Cuba, pursued by O'Banion gunmen. When he finally screwed up enough courage to return to Chicago, he was riddled with bullets after a wild chase through Loop traffic. Recovered, he went to jail for seven months for operating a brewery. Then he scurried back to Italy. On his return...
...Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed...
...into the dining room wall. Mayor Schurman showed reporters rifles resting in six corners of his living room and dining room, said that they belonged to as many guards. "This is a hell of a way to live," complained he. And after his men had picked up two gunmen lurking in front of the Sheriff's office, Chief Donahue growled: "What this town needs is a vigilante committee of about a hundred tough citizens...
...That" was a heavy curtain which had fallen backstage at the Locust Street Theatre, where Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was addressing some 1,600 employes of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Informed that a mere curtain had caused the disturbance, Mayor Wilson remarked: "I thought it was some of those gunmen...
Unharmed, Calvocoressi walked to a telephone booth and reported the holdup. The police found the car later in the evening in the place indicated by the gunmen...