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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bounty | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lingle, Darrow | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...Robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Backers | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...Joplin, Mo., a robber held up Mrs. Amy Haggard, filling station operator. Mrs. Haggard doused him with gasoline, he fired his revolver at her. The bullet missed Mrs. Haggard but the flame ignited the footpad's clothing, sent him away screaming, ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Backers | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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