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...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...
...said to myself, 'Something is going to be happening here.' I saw nothing more of any policemen until there was a shot fired and as soon as that shot was fired I dropped behind the wooden part of the counter. I was in a holdup one time in Detroit when a man was cut in half with a tommy-gun and at that time the police told me the only thing to do at a time like that is drop to the floor and stay there...
Little faith in human nature has National Surety Corp., which insures companies against losses caused by dishonest employees, burglars, holdup-men and forgers. Little faith in corporate nature has many a stockholder and creditor of National Surety Co., predecessor concern of National Surety Corp. The Company did nicely calculating the odds on other people's employees' yielding to temptation, became the largest fidelity & surety insurance outfit in the U. S. In 1928 it took in $18,000,000 on its bonding business, made nearly $2,000,000 profit on investments, paid $1,500,000 in dividends. Meanwhile...
...trial for larceny in Cleveland last week was Clayton Clawson, holdup man famed as "the toughest prisoner ever to be held in Cuyahoga County Jail." Tough Clayton Clawson was conducting his own defense before Judge Samuel Silbert. Suddenly Clayton Clawson whipped out a small bottle of colorless liquid, shouted: "I'm gonna blow everybody to kingdom come...
Black Bart was the name assumed by Charles E. Boles. Clad in a linen duster, with a flour sack over his head, he held up 28 stages, never shot anyone. At each holdup, he would leave a suitable stanza of not badly turned verse. Once he signed himself "The PO8" Before his final capture, he reached a reward value of $18,000 "dead or alive." When he got out of jail, Wells Fargo paid him $125 a month not to rob them any more...