Word: sheltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulky, hard-mouthed Bernie Shelton,-50, youngest and meanest of the ill-famed Shelton boys, fell. He was dead in half an hour. His 59-year-old brother Carl-a big, amiable murderer, who carried a red bandanna and dressed like a hayseed-had been ambushed and killed by a machine-gunner last fall. Of the three brothers who had held Southern Illinois in fief during the noisy years of Prohibition, only Earl, grey-haired and bitter-mouthed, was left...
...their time, the Shelton gang had been responsible for scores of violent deaths. They were whiskey runners, saloon keepers and slot-machine operators. They fought the Ku Klux Klan, fought the law, bought up sheriffs. But mostly they battled a tough, boastful gangster named Charley Birger...
...Shelton and Birger gangs, roaming through bloody Williamson County in armored cars, blazed away at each other on sight, killed mayors and cops with abandon. But they did not annihilate each other. Birger was convicted of murder and hanged...
...estate. Presiding at the press conference where the will was read, Waldrop told Washington newsmen with elaborate offhandedness: "After this meeting I invite anyone who cares to join me in the bar for a drink. For once the drinks are on the Times-Herald" ¶ General Manager William C. Shelton, 55, also named an executor, began at ten as a newsboy, has been with the paper since 1922. "This might show the Russians," he exulted, "that capitalists in this country treat the workers right fine." ¶ Supervising Managing Editor Michael W. ("Mike") Flynn, 59, an owl-faced, Washington-born news...
...inheritors will remain in their present jobs, with Shelton likely to be elected the boss. How well they will get along without Cissie Patterson to drive them was debatable. But rival Washington newsmen thought the syndicate would make good if its members could keep from quarreling among themselves...