Word: robber
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...Brunswick, N. J., while twelve salesmen of Colonial Life Insurance Co. were holding a "pep meeting," a robber entered an adjoining room, stole about...
Died. Anton Kozarek, hangman to the Kingdom of Hungary; of influenza developed from a cold caught while executing a robber and a murderer; in Budapest...
Captured three days later was 64-year-old Convict Earl Thayer, mail robber. He had escaped alone during the confusion...
...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...