Word: robber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder of a noted bandit and racketeer is bound to be a matter of some interest to the "composite reader," When in addition the victim has successively over a seventeen-year period matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even...
...prison physician was away. In his place was a past president of the Michigan Medical Society, Dr. Alfred W. Hornbogen. To Dr. Hornbogen in the prison hospital early one morning came three convicts: Andre Germane, serving 35 to 50 years for wounding a policeman; Leo Duver, a life-term robber; Charles Roseburg, sentenced to 20 to 40 years for robbery. Dr. Hornbogen might have recognized them as three of Wiles's "pals...
...each other, they make a bargain. They decide to go to Florida to spend the $20,000 he has stolen; when it is gone, they will commit suicide. In Palm Beach, Holmes still wants to kill himself but the girl wants to live. When police come to arrest the robber she has obtained some more money from another admirer and thought of a way out of their difficulties. The picture is bearable because of its handsome settings and because it is well acted. Best sequence...
...months 16 banks have been robbed in Nebraska. Desperate, the Nebraska Bankers' Association last week posted a $3,000 reward for each bank robber killed in the act. That very day three young men entered a bank at Nehama, stole...
...during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker and William ("Three-fingered Jack") White, both agents of the coal teamsters union (nonA...