Crime Does Not Pay! |
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre, February 14, 1929 |
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, May 23, 1934 |
John Dillinger, July 22, 1934 |
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, October 22, 1934 |
Lester Gillis, alias "Baby Face" Nelson, November 28, 1934 |
Al Brady and Clarence Shaffer, October 12, 1937 |
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"The electric chair yawns for its fodder of calloused human beasts whose warped minds prompt evil deeds! The wages of sin is death! Sooner or later it will get John Dillinger! That, or the searing death of hot bullets fired from eager guns! That, or the knife of some friend turned assassin! CRIME NEVER PAYS!"--excerpt from narration of 1934 Dillinger newsreel. |
"There is no romance in a dead rat."--J. Edgar Hoover |
"I hated to bust a cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down. But it was her or me."--Captain Frank Hamer |
"I expect to go down soon full of lead."--Charles Arthur Floyd |