Tag: December 1935
Sheriff’s Slain in Shelby Showdown
Christmas will be a somber and sorrowful season for the families of two fallen lawmen in Shelby, Montana. Last Friday, officers Alsup and Tenbroeck made the ultimate sacrifice while valiantly battling a gang of ruthless bandits who had descended upon the oil city, leaving a trail of pillage and plunder in their wake. The brazen…
James “Negro Bandit” Johnson, Safecracking, Indiana 1935
Indianapolis, December 18, 1935 – In a tense showdown that left one suspect dead and a detective shaken, city police finally closed in on a notorious gang of safecrackers and bandits that had been evading capture for three months. Related Federal Cases Booze Bandit Hafer Gets Half-Year in Federal Lockup · Indiana Indianapolis Dollar General…
Ernest P. Anyon, Extermination of Nantucket Deer, Nantucket MA, 1935
Boston authorities are grappling with a gruesome dilemma: what to do with Nantucket’s notorious deer population. The normally tranquil island is now a battleground, with animal welfare experts at odds over the fate of the much-publicized deer. The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) has thrown its weight behind extermination. According…
Washington Landlords Charged with Rent-Gouging, D.C., 1935
On a chilly winter night in December 1935, a fiery meeting took place at the Typographical Temple in Washington D.C. The event was a clarion call to action, sparked by the city’s sordid housing situation. Representatives of over 50 labor groups gathered to voice their discontent with the exorbitant rents and subpar living conditions plaguing…
