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...neighbors, who used to watch dapper little James ("Occo") Tamer mowing his front lawn, didn't suspect that he was an ex-gunman and bank robber. The Detroit police knew. What's more, they had a pretty good idea that velvet-voiced little Jimmy (out of prison on parole) was Detroit's public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced...
...swindlers; he also became a relentless pursuer of facts & figures in fraud cases. Among those he helped to convict: the late Dr. Frederick E. Cook, the polar explorer, for mail fraud. The catch which gained Donaldson promotion was his tracking down of a long-wanted train robber...
...Cheyenne, famed Train Robber William ("Wild Bill") Carlisle, 57, was granted a full pardon by the State of Wyoming. In his prime, Wild Bill bedeviled the U.P. line as it has never been bedeviled since. Always sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie...
...granary, on a quiet night back their trucks up close, bore a hole, and fill up. A single haul may be worth as much as $1,300. Said Jake Sims, director of Oklahoma's Bureau of Criminal Investigation: "They've got a better racket than the bank robber. It's not only safer-there's more money...
...robber then proceeded to comb the apartment and to search through Havelock's clothes, helping himself to a size eight pair of brown shoes after ascertaining their size. Some minutes later after Havelock's alarm, John Fitzgerald of the University police saw a man fleeing up Plympton Street with what appeared to be a pair of shoes under...