Word: robbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the cases were opened, the alarm rang, but that did not worry the robber or robbers, who took a number of Central American art pieces, including jade vessels and gold ornaments...
...latest story tells of Kip Caley, bank robber and desperado, who, while serving time for one of his jobs, suddenly decides to go straight. A fellow of huge frame and equally mighty enthusiasms, he turns over his new page with all the gusto of a Billy Sunday, joins prison Bible classes, uplifts fellow convicts. The reform of so notable a character attracts wide attention, and soon newspapers, hometown politicians, even a Senator join in a successful campaign for his release. Paroled, Kip Caley strides out into the world again, too happy in his freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion...
...flourishing his blue-steel revolver, which he called "Ol' Becky True-heart," he was not infrequently arrested, but the St. Louis police were never severe with him because, in addition to numerous benefactions to the poor, he always gave $500 to any officer who shot & killed a robber...
...careers. The killing of Dillinger Gangster Homer Van Meter was the subject of one hair-raising episode, but "Gangbusters" has not confined itself to dead lawbreakers. The dramatization of the capture of Massachusetts' murdering Millen Brothers was broadcast prior to their electrocution and many a live but lesser robber, forger and gangster has had his story told. Until last week there had never been a squawk from the criminal...
...general have risen faster, gone higher, dropped further, created more spectacular characters and lurid scandals than other countries can show, U. S. novelists by & large have stood by, left the field to angry muckrakers, uncritical official biographers, or to such able left-wing analysts as Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) or Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan...