Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week the pride of Ontario reformers was Norman F. ("Red") Ryan, a hulking, 200-lb. Torontonian with little pig eyes and a disarming smile. Red Ryan's highly publicized criminal career first attracted wide attention in 1921. For armed robbery he was sentenced to seven years in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary and given 14 lashes on the bare back with...
...Red Ryan served less than a year of that sentence. Evidence was produced connecting him with another bank robbery; he was transferred to Kingston Penitentiary and given 25 years more. Red Ryan served just one year of that sentence. In 1923 with four companions he broke out of jail and into every Canadian paper. Within 15 days he held up a bank in Toronto, fled...
...year the blazing red thatch of Norman Ryan kept cropping up in a series of holdups and bank robberies throughout Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota. In 1924 he was trapped in the Minneapolis Post Office, extradited to Canada, sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 lashes. The flogging was later canceled...
Some anonymous admirer sent it through the mail to her, a little red collar with a name plate saying simply "Sarah"; and needless to say, she is very proud of it and is showing it off to everybody...
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