Word: sikorskys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...
Meantime, at the French border village of Bourg-Madame, Mr. Sikorski was putting on a good show...
However, the Spanish Leftist Government, needing good trigger men, offered Mr. Sikorski haven in Barcelona, and French gendarmes escorted him to the international bridge to Puigcerda...
Chicago police and Washington income tax sleuths said they have never heard of Alex ("Kid Tiger") Sikorski. Yugoslav police believe it was he who turned up in Belgrade last year boasting he was a faithful henchman of the late John Dillinger on his way to "get" Anna Sage, the Rumanian-born "Woman in Red" who put the finger on Dillinger. In Europe it can be as much fun to pretend to be an American gangster as to pretend in the U. S. to be a prince...