Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day Acting Mayor Walmsley declared: "Anarchy must cease." In answer two street cars were dynamited. Labor leaders called upon the Council to apologize, to repudiate Gus Williams as a "red." The Council proclaimed the attack as "the most unheard of demonstration in the history of the city," ordered more policemen recruited...
...dewy morning two years ago, squat George Remus, onetime 'legger and Federal convict, chased his wife Imogene, who was suing him for divorce, across the grass of a Cincinnati park. He caught her, shot her dead. Tried for murder, he claimed she had plotted his death. He pleaded insanity, was acquitted. A writ of habeas corpus soon freed him from Ohio's State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. "Ohio justice," like "Indiana politics," became a national byword...
Black was the Chicago reputation of Willie Doody. Police, searching for him for six months, called him a "two-gun terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
Denver. Ray Stevenson, 36, 6 ft., 165 lb., thin brown hair, two bullet scars on right shoulder, wanted for bank robberies at Denver and at Englewood. Reward: $1,500. Warning: "Desperate bank robber...
...Federal. Two men most wanted by the U. S. Post Office Department...