Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...glory was a book, fast gaining popularity, advertised widely with photographs of the hero's fat, coarse face, entitled Al Capone, The Biography Of A Self-Made Man* It was written by Fred D. Pasley, onetime rewrite man for the Chicago Tribune, often collaborator with Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. Author Pasley seems to know his gangs. He portrays the rise to a tycoondom of vice of once obscure Hoodlum Capone, gives it a macabre grandeur. Author Pasley does not hesitate to link the Big Shot himself to many a gruesome murder. Final sentence of his biography...
...what is right or wrong expresses itself. . . ." Neither of the "Press Peers," Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cares a hoot for "Civilization." The Daily Express (Beaverbrook) merely hung upon Legs a second screaming series of articles about "American desperadoes" (the first series was hung on the shooting of Alfred ["Jake"] Lingle in Chicago-TIME, June 16 et seq.). Meanwhile the Daily Mail (Rothermere) hired Edgar Wallace, No.1 British crime fictioneer, to write: "I have been out-Wallaced by recent factual happenings in the United States...
Electrocuted. Joyce Shepard. murderer of Sheriff Bob Smith and Deputy Sheriff Jake Owens of Fisher County, Tex.; at Huntsville, Tex. Sentenced two years ago, Shepard refused to eat, to wear clothes, acted mad so convincingly he was declared insane. In the asylum he dropped his role too soon, was found normal. Robert Blake, his cellmate, also condemned, wrote a magazine article which was made into The Last Mile, a Broadway smash-hit which closed last week after a 36-week run. Great thrill of the play was the prisoner's hoarse repeated cry, "Jones! Oh Jones!" which real Convict...
...hired by Joe Traum, Indiana and Kentucky gangleader, and Richard Michael Sullivan, who was a friend of mine. I drove them in a stolen car to the Illinois Central pedestrian subway. There they joined a blond man whose name I never knew. These three killed Jake Lingle. I think the blond man fired the shot. They were acting for Christ Patras, a north-side restaurant man, who represented Jack Zuta, business manager for the Aiello-Moran gang. When my employers went to collect the $10,000 promised them by Patras, he balked, was killed. Zuta was killed two months afterward...
Most prolific producers: Lee & Jake Shubert, who offered eight productions from their own offices, were associated with 27 others...