Word: niebels
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...Stickup." Then they were seized with a magnificent idea. Why not go back to Mansfield and kill some reformatory guards? At 1:30 one morning last week they parked their car below the home of the reformatory's farm superintendent, a burly, middle-aged man named John E. Niebel. They rang the doorbell...
...When Niebel looked out, Daniels politely asked permission to use the telephone. Then he stepped inside, pulled his pistol, snarled: "This is a stickup." While West covered the superintendent, Daniels went upstairs, got Niebel's dumpy wife and his plump, redheaded 22-year-old daughter Phyllis out of bed. The two killers gloated over their frightened victims like vicious children; demanded that Niebel order a guard named "Red" Harris to come to the house...
...Niebel refused. The pair ordered the big farmer and the two white-faced women outside and into the car, told them to take off their clothes. The automobile moved off through the darkness, finally pulled up beside a cornfield. Daniels forced the Niebels to walk out among the rustling stalks. "Kneel down," he ordered. They knelt-naked, shivering, sick with terror. West shot Mrs. Niebel in the stomach. His pistol jammed. Daniels shot her in the head. He fired twice more, and Niebel and his daughter toppled over, dying. The two gunmen walked back to their car and drove away...