Word: suttons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN the police pounced on Willie Sutton last winter, they found in his hideout a book entitled How to Think Ahead in Chess. In this way, some 8,000,000 U.S. chess players learned that Bank Robber Sutton was a member of their cold-eyed fraternity. They were not especially surprised. As devotees of one of the oldest and most intellectually satisfying games ever invented, they assume that chess appeals to every thinking man, whether he uses his talents to crack safes or split atoms. But most of these thinking men, from Einstein to Humphrey Bogart, are Patzers-a German...
...only entail unhappiness for us both." Although both groups are congregational, i.e., each church runs its own affairs, church leaders found some strong doctrinal differences in the way of unity. Example: the Disciples have historically believed that baptism is necessary for salvation, the Baptists have not. Said Layman Jack Sutton, speaking at a Disciples' banquet: "If we could heave out the pastors, the Disciples and the Baptists would have no trouble in getting together...
...there are some organized crime syndicates working in this country--groups that make the Mafia and the old Murder Inc. look juvenile. They are headed by men who are clever enough to keep the Suttons out of their way. As the case stands now, Willy will end his days behind stone walls, lips sealed--not because he won't talk, but because he has nothing to say. Sutton knows how to save his skin, and if he knew anything about Schuster's death, he'd spill it. Honor among thieves is a phrase as out-dated as the cliche about...
...course, possible that Willy might have had Schuster shot in retaliation. But a supposition like this proves that either the police didn't know Sutton very well, or that Sutton had changed since the days of his Philadelphia jailbreak. As the youngest comic-book fan of Gangbusters will testify, Willy was never a man for violence, especially killing...
...more likely that the Brink's gang, not Sutton, had Schuster shot for two reasons: to get him off their necks and to put suspicion for the Brink's job on Willy. Since the police were already trying to pin it on him, the murder would seem to be Willy's way of warning people not to testify at his trial. It almost worked...