Word: herrin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What with this and what with that--as Miss Lillie remarks--"schools" of the arts rise like mushrooms in the American common wealth. There is the Valentino school of romantic acting, still flourishing although its originator has joined the immortals. And there is the Hearst school of journalism, the Herrin school of gun-toting, the Lardner school of bon-mots--schools innumerable. The latest addition to the ranks would appear to be the academy of Edna St. Vincent Millay; at least Edmund Wilson in the Nation, has named Miss Millay as the muse of Dorothy Parker, who has just emerged...
Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called...
...York State, not wishing to have a gun-toting Herrin (Ill.) within its boundaries, decided to tighten its criminal laws last year. The result was a batch of legislation, known as the Baumes laws, which went into effect in July, which increase the penalties on various types of crimes. The most important provision is that which sentences a man to life imprisonment upon his fourth or subsequent conviction for a minor felony. This particular statute has been the subject of heated legal debate and was "finally upheld by the New York Supreme Court last month. No doubt, it has made...
There had been another battle down in Little Egypt,± and of all the places for a good machine-gun-spattering, bomb-throwing fight there was none better, than the late "Shady Rest." Not far from Herrin, Ill., it was the pastoral citadel of Charles Birger, bootlegger, gunman, gang chieftain. Carl Shelton, whose profession is the same as Mr. Birger's, had set out to get Mr. Birger. The ruins and the four dead bodies were the result. But Messrs. Birger and Shelton are still alive and plotting. Perhaps, they will really get one another some day. Their attempts...
...newspaperman wondered about these things as he walked down the hill. That night the people of Herrin wondered too, hearing the woodeny familiar rattle of machine-guns nearby, seeing a glow like a petal in the sky over Birger's "Shady Rest." Carl Shelton had tried an attack. His followers, with their caps pulled down and revolvers in each hand, stalked through woods blazing with electric light toward the roadhouse from whose windows jetted rods of blue flame. The attack failed. Carl Shelton said he would get Charles Birger...