Word: snatcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Gunder (the Wunder) Hägg, 24, Swedish snatcher of the U.S. outdoor mile record (at 4:05.3); and Dorothy Nortier, 19, blonde attraction of her father's Piedmont, Calif, restaurant; four weeks after Gunder sailed home. He met her when she played the accordion at a Swedish reception given for him in San Francisco...
...rope to the Haymarket anarchists; to Charles Julius Guiteau, who shot President Garfield; to the Molly Maguires, the Irish miners who terrorized the Pennsylvania coal fields; to John Wilkes Booth's accomplices, including Mary Surratt, first woman ever hanged in the U.S. He also includes British body-snatcher William Burke, who added a wrinkle to the illicit business of selling bodies for medical dissection by creating his own corpses, and added a verb to the English language-to burke (to murder without telltale traces...
...other end is another dangerous pass snatcher named Green, who has beaten out the regular end, Thompson, for the starting assignment. One of the fastest men on the squad, he is usually the first one down the field under kicks...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...