Word: stickman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly thereafter Crump's cops arrested a quiet little Memphis gasoline-station operator named James Edward ("Piggy") Moore. He was charged with vagrancy (although he had $300 in his pockets) and loitering (in his own gas station). Moore admitted that he had made extra money as a nighttime stickman at a casino across the Mississippi in Arkansas. But he always lived within the law in Memphis. When he was fined $26 and told to leave town, he decided to fight. He talked to the FBI, hired a lawyer, got backing from press and pulpit...