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Fowl Play. In Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Willis Mann heard suspicious noises in his chicken coop, grabbed his shotgun, stumbled over his coon dog, let go with both barrels. Score: 26 dead hens...
Starting from there, police and the FBI moved fast. Two clues turned up: I) the burnt stock of a shotgun, jammed in the flue of a Yellow Cab office in Greenville; 2) blood-stained seat cushions from a taxi. Drivers were rounded up, began to talk, implicated still more...
...thrown her over a cliff, breaking her collarbone, 2) trod on her neck, 3) doused her with kerosene and set her afire, 4) slashed at her throat with a razor, 5) menaced her with hot grease, 6) shoved her out a window, 7) singed her hair with a shotgun blast. The jury thereupon acquitted her of first-degree murder...
...Banion was rubbed out. His mob half-killed Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until...
Charles Minor Blackford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, kissed his wife goodbye, grabbed his double-barreled shotgun, mounted his "very fine roan" and rode out of Lynchburg, Va. one morning in June...