Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring home after a Chicago theatre party, Steelmaster Joseph Turner Ryerson was robbed at gunpoint of $15, his guest Stockbroker Barrett Wendell Jr. of $20, his wife of two diamond bracelets worth...
...were out for an evening motor drive. They were Nell and Augusta Williams, daughters of an attorney, and Jennie Wood, whose father is a produce dealer. Suddenly out of the shadows of a wood sprang a Negro in overalls. He leaped on the running board, ordered the girls at gunpoint to drive up a lonely road. There he robbed them. Not satisfied with that, he began insulting the frightened young women, threatened "to get even for what their race had done to his.'' At this point, Nell Williams made a grab for the gun. The Negro shot...