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Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Special Delivery | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Young Boettcher's return set airplanes, radio cars and volunteer posses scouring the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming countryside in a hunt for the kidnappers. Meanwhile Denver, stroked its chin over reports of the young broker's slowness in paying large gambling debts. Declared the Rocky Mountain News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Unusual Victim | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Buffalo squad men posses the peculiarity of being able to play in at least two different positions apiece, a shift to which the coaches have been forced through dearth of material.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASH WITH BISON TO TEST RESERVE STRENGTH OF TEAM | 10/1/1932 | See Source »

Next day 18 oxen were hitched to the bloated, floating body and it was hauled ashore. Soon Hubert was posthumously rechristened "Huberta." Posses were formed to scour the veldt for her murderer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Death Comes to the Arch-Hippo | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Twenty atrocious murders in a few weeks, ten more slashings have reduced the citizens to a state of mind in which respectable women were to be seen in Lutheran Churches screaming that Satan again walks the Earth, imploring Heaven's protection. For several weeks Dusseldorf schoolchildren have been toddling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crime Club | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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