Word: hummell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the cold corridors of Michigan's maximum-security prison at Marquette last week marched a manacled man: Harold Maurice Hummel Jr. (alias Billy the Kid, alias John Dillinger), 26, on his way to Marquette's sandstone city hall to be arraigned for the murder of a fellow prisoner. Hummel's boyish face was impassive: he had little to worry about, since he was already serving a life sentence for another murder, and Michigan law forbids capital punishment. Besides, Billy the Kid Hummel had made himself a prison hero by killing Marquette's most hated inmate...