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...Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio. But the key man of the mystery was missing, Patrick Eugene McDermott, ex-convict, member of a family of mine-laborers in Nanty Glo, Pa. He was believed to have been in the shooting gang. He was known to be hiding somewhere, supported and protected by his criminal employers...
...traditions and with new leaders. This is, in fact, the form usually followed in some foreign countries where the popular political instinct is more emotional and more revolutionary than at home. In Turkey perhaps the aims of "The Republican Associates" would be effected by a "youth movement" or a gang calling themseves "Young Turks...
...when the Duncan Sisters, famed baby-talk gurglers of musical comedy, put on a street fight with two Cicero policemen, and later sued the town for rough treatment. There was the story of a young, able newspaper editor who refused to leave town. So, members of the Caponi gang beat him up at a busy street corner, and kidnaped his brother for a few days. There was the killing of Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin last April, a crime that has not yet been solved. Then, a fortnight ago, a black armored car roared down Cicero...
Tucson, Ariz., October 5--John Joss, last year's Yale football captain and all American tackle, had a taste of Freshman days yesterday when he was mistaken for a Sophomore and given a ride into the desert be a gang of University of Arizona Freshmen, Joss is taking postgraduate work in law at the university here this year...
...first item was a 132-page confession from one Celestino Madeiros, Portuguese garage-keeper, laborer, bootlegger, who is now awaiting execution for the Wrentham bank murder. Celestino says that he and certain members of the Morelli gang of Providence (now serving sentences in Atlanta and Leavenworth for stealing from freight cars) are the guilty ones in the Braintree murders, that he is willing to "tell everything," when the trial comes up, if the State will postpone his own execution long enough. Assistant District Attorney Dudley P. Ranney scoffed at this confession of a "murderer to whom penalties for lying mean...