Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Minister to Austria when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...
...bellhop dashed out to the street, grabbed Policemen Schuck and Klika, who covered the club's exits. Schuck was near the service door when three bandits came charging down the stairs. He opened fire, they fired back; Schuck toppled over with a bullet in his leg. The gunmen scattered. One commandeered the car of Mrs. Samuel Solomon, who was on her way to a corset shop, lunged into Manhattan's heavy crosstown traffic. Klika, charging after him, jumped on the running board. Just as he did, the gunman put his gun to his head and shot himself...
Police could guess what the trio had been after at the N.Y.A.C. Room 1903 was one of a suite occupied by Frank Erickson, reputed to be New York's wealthiest bookmaker, said by Mayor LaGuardia to be a "bum." A zipper bag which the gunmen had left behind them held black masks, wire, cord, wads of cotton-elaborate paraphernalia for a holdup...
...light. As one started for the door a shot rang out. The officer jumped behind a tree, sent for reinforcements. Around 10 o'clock in the bright starlit night, a huge force-14 State troopers and local policemen, eleven civilians-had assembled to demand that the gunmen surrender. There was the classic defiant answer, less frightening than it would have been if the boys' voices had not been changing: "If you want us you'll have to come get us. And you'd better bring an army with...
Klausman entered the elevator to his office. The Esposito brothers stepped in after him. Between the second and third floors they drew revolvers from their overcoat pockets, ordered the operator to stop, face the door. He heard Klausman cry "No! No! No!"-then one of the gunmen put his revolver to Klausman's head and pulled the trigger...