Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman Ivan Mihailoff who has publicly boasted that he alone was responsible for the death of General Protogeroff, that not a Bulgarian official dared do a thing about...
...Chicago, a gunman held up the cashier of the Superior State Bank, was proffered $5,000 in bills, said he did not need that much, selected $700, walked away...
...Hoodlum" (list lately compiled and .published by a citizens' committee) was ordered and the police stations were crowded with hundreds of idlers, toughs, men out of work. A few with police records were detained, but most were released. The Tribune roared that a certain gunman would soon be apprehended. Into the Detective Bureau marched Sam Hunt, one of the Capone ''mob," with a onetime city alderman, his lawyer. Smiling, he showed news reporters he was not left-handed (the glove clue), established an alibi, marched out. Chief Detective Stege announced the qualifications of his six search-squad...
...laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department of Justice...
Efficient, the police came, took down a description of the gunman, promised to try and catch him, but had not at last reports interfered with the rushing business of Cordials and Beverages...