Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Charles Ruppert, father of a sitter, said: "My boy is sunburned and the exposure to fresh air will benefit him. I want him to make a real record and I've promised a reward of 50? a day for each day over 20 he stays aloft...
...from toothpicks to war loans. Last week, however, there appeared in Chicago papers a unique campaign. Signed by the Chicago Employers' Association, it was a protest against the bombing of industrial establishments, particularly printing shops, by racketeers. Copy punch was provided by the offer of a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of persons bombing or damaging property of any printing concern that belonged to the Association and $1,000 reward for conviction of persons assaulting workers of print shops where strikes are in progress. The sales curve that the advertising is designed to revise downward...
...Rice Lake, Wis., one J. F. Baskin last week offered $100 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the person who has been cutting off the tails of the Baskin cows...
...world's flyers who did enterprising work last year, the International Aeronautic Federation, meeting at Copenhagen last week, chose Bert Hinkler as having accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...