Word: inness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mich., Patrolman Charles Skelly told the guilty driver to come along to the police station to pay the few dollars damage. The driver yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead...
Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of...
Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine'...
Searchers moved carefully, mindful of official warnings: "Burke is a very dangerous murderer. . . . Advise police caution in approaching him. . . . One of the most infamous ex-convicts in the U. S. . . . The most dangerous man alive."
The underworld calls Badman Burke "professor." He is a scientific felon, a specialist in safe door melting, wire tapping, hijacking, disguises. In his St. Joseph hideout were found chemistry and metallurgy textbooks, also 200 thumb-greyed detective novels, with criminals' blunders underlined.