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...them in a few weeks, Proprietor Hurd, to be on the safe side, called the Bangor police. The Bangor police called the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington. To the F.B.I. Mr. Kurd's description of his customers sounded exactly like Al Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. and James Dalhover, notorious midwest bank robbers, who liked to boast that John Dillinger was only a "creampuff" bandit. These diminutive badmen (all three between 5 ft. 5 in. and 5 ft. 6 in. tall) escaped from a Greenfield, Ind. jail on Oct. 11, 1936, left a trail that grew cold near...
Dalhover fired, wounding Walsh in the shoulder. Suddenly more Federal agents appeared in the store attempting to seize the gangster, who dashed for the cellar, emerged by a back door where two policemen collared him without difficulty. Meanwhile on the street outside, Brady and Shaffer, alarmed by the barrage from inside the store, jumped from their car and began firing wildly through the plate glass windows. Bangor citizens popped into the street, among them. Maine's Republican...
...late John Dillinger, Al Brady is an Indiana bad boy who got in trouble young, was let out of jail on parole. Also like Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record by lifting...
Another top notch Crimson wrestler is dependable 175 pounder Johnny Harkness, who halls from Milton Academy, has lost but one dual match in College and that to Penn State's great Ross Shaffer. As a Freshman he was the New England champion in his class, but he will have his hands full tomorrow when he faces Sophomore Clarke of the Elis, who last year toppled the Crimson Yardling leader, Cochran. Bill Goslin and Jerry Piel have been running neck and neck and for the 165 pound berth, and the latter, with three years of Varsity experience behind him, will probably...
Johnny Harkness reached the semi-finals and took one point for a fall when Pappas of Columbia was disqualified for crawling off the mat, but he was later thrown by Shaffer of Penn State. In his first bout, Bill Glendinning beat Cobb of Cornell by a time advantage of 8.56, only to be edged in the semi-finals by Chew of Princeton by a referee's decision in overtime...