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Word: posseman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Frank Conley did not surrender. Twenty-four hours after his leap on Troy Wade he was found in a pit on the Ouachita River levee, still holding his shotgun, 50 yards from the spot where the posseman had been killed. A bullet through the throat had ended his flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: 36 Men in Flight | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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