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Captain Johnny Harkness, most powerfully built matman, kept his slate clean until he was crushed by Ross Shaffer of Penn State in February. Inventive, a dynamic grappler he has the best chance of al to chalk up an undefeated record. In the 165-1b. class Bill Daughaday, a Sophomore with an excellent Freshman record, is fighting it out with Albert Harkness '38, the captain's brother. With plenty of rough edges to smooth out, Daughaday, one of the two Yardling victors at New Haven, will probably win the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

...second time. I never saw the third man until I saw him dead in the Street. On his second call James Dalhover left orders as you have reported. After showing me several pictures I was only able to identify James Dalhover. No one was able to identify Shaffer or Brady but it was assumed that these two were the ones with Dalhover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...that moment Shaffer, who was on the outside, saw that things were not going right, bumped into the front door to open it, the latch would not release and thinking that the door was locked Shaffer started to fire through the glass. Walsh and another G-man returned Shaffer's fire and drove him into the street where he was killed from various shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Simultaneous with Shaffer shooting, G-men had jumped Brady who was sitting in the back seat of his car. He was told to come but with his hands up. On getting out he suddenly pulled a gun and started firing. . . . He was trying to take his stand in the middle of the road when several bursts from machine guns lifted him off his feet and threw him to the pavement, dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Representative and onetime (1925-29) Governor, Ralph 0. Brewster, who had been lunching in a drugstore nearby. G-men opened fire from all directions on Brady and Shaffer. The chatter of machine-gun fire lasted about five minutes. When it ended Brady and Shaffer were lying dead on the car tracks, their little bodies about 15 ft. apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Tough Customers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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