Word: rustlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight, stock-in-trade western fare. From all over the courtroom, angry cattlemen glowered at the captured rustler. And the rustler himself, a bull-necked hombre who liked heavy gambling and fancy women, was perfectly cast. All that marred the illusion was the scene of the trial-not Dodge City but Düsseldorf-and the repeated references to the rustler's favorite steed: a Mercedes 300 limousine...
...young a man driving so expensive a car, came over to investigate and spotted the beef in the back seat. With the pitcher plainly broken at last, Roden confessed all, and last week, as his trial wound to a close, he was clearly headed for the kindest fate a rustler can expect: a long stretch in prison. Worse yet, as part of his punishment, the state prosecutor was demanding confiscation of Rustler Roden's trusty Mercedes...
...food. Last month, when a rash crook kidnaped half a dozen prizewinners and sent one of his own homers with a ransom note, the whole valley rose in wrath. Pigeon partisans tagged the go-between pigeon with streamers, trailed it by plane back to its loft, and turned the rustler over to the courts...
...have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first love." And then he leers. "Only from...
...Rustler. In Omaha, police looked for the man who rang Irwin Chapman's doorbell, pointed a pistol at him, growled, "I want that," made off with his son's rocking horse...