Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pits him against a gang of racketeers inspired by Murder, Inc. The picture opens with a lecture by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, head of the Senate's crime investigators. What follows is no social document, but a gory round of killings by ice pick, razor, butcher knife, pistol...
...announced that he was "going to live by the gun." Then he made his way to the hot little desert town of Blythe, Calif., got a job as a dishwasher. On the night before Christmas, Cook disappeared. He bobbed up in El Paso and bought a .32-caliber automatic pistol. After that he started out to fulfill his promise...
...captive farmer tried to escape at a filling station near Wichita Falls, Texas. He pinned Cook's arms and yelled: "Help me! Help me! He's going to kill me and take my wife!" Cook wrenched free, yanked out his pistol and forced Mosser back into the automobile. Cook and his hostages stopped twice more, once at a filling station in Randlett, Okla., once at Winthrop, Ark., but neither Mosser, his wife, nor his children made any outcry. Two days later, the blue car was foundempty, bullet-pierced and drenched with bloodin the hills...
Waldrip knocked. There was silence. Then the door flew open, and a man in a red shirt jumped out, a pistol in his hand. It was Cook. He took Waldrip's pistol and ammunition belt, walked him out to his patrol car, told him to drive south into the desert. He bragged that he had thrown the Mosser bodies into a ditch, had killed seven people in all, and "would just as soon kill you." But after 35 miles, he tied the deputy's arms, set him down in the fierce sun, andafter a moment...
Crossfire. In Bangkok, a stickup man nabbed by a victim explained to police that he used a toy pistol instead of a real one because his boss had given him strict orders not to hurt anybody...