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Death. Edward Kelly (December 1854 [ a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born in the then–British colony of Victoria as the third of eight ...
Dean O'Banion. Charles Dean O'Banion (July 8, 1892 – November 10, 1924) was an American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the brutal Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. The newspapers of his day made him better known as Dion O'Banion, although he never went by that first name.
The Dillinger Gang was a group of American Depression-era bank robbers led by John Dillinger. [ 1] The gang gained notoriety for a successful string of bank robberies, using modern tools and tactics, in the Midwestern United States from September 1933 to July 1934. During this crime spree, the gang killed 10 and wounded 7.
The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 1890–1892. It was also known as The Dalton Brothers because four of its members were brothers. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers and two other gang members were ...
The Pillow gang was the earliest Italian gang in the city being active since 1910. [5] The gang was led by Pasquale Santino until 1927, when he was murdered. [ 5 ] Carmelo Fresina became the new leader, nicknaming it the Pillow gang because Fresina carried a pillow with him to sit on after he had been shot in the buttocks. [ 3 ]
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Lucky Luciano. Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( / ˌluːtʃiˈɑːnoʊ / LOO-chee-AH-noh, [ 1] Italian: [luˈtʃaːno]; born Salvatore Lucania [salvaˈtoːre lukaˈniːa]; [ 2] November 24, 1897 [ nb 1] – January 26, 1962) was an Italian gangster who operated mainly in the United States. He started his criminal career in the Five Points Gang and ...
Mutant Leader: Frank Miller: The Dark Knight Returns (February–June 1986) In the Frank Miller Batman Universe, the unnamed Mutant Leader was the leader of a gang known as the Mutants until the Batman came out of retirement and defeated the Mutant Leader, dismantling the Mutants. Narcosis: Alan Grant Dave Taylor: Batman: Shadow of the Bat #50 ...