Running With Dillinger

by Butts, Edward

• ISBN13: 9781550026832
• ISBN10: 1550026836
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-25
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd

Summary

This book picks up where "The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws" (1550026100) left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals -- most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last two men to be hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers who made Lake Champlain a battleground, a counterfeiter whose bills were so good they fooled even bank managers, and teenage girls who committed murder in their escape from jail. They will meet the bandits who plundered banks and trains in Eastern Canada and the West, and even the United States. Among them were Same Behan, a robber whose harrowing testimony about the brutal conditions in the Kingston Penittentiary may have brought about his untimely death in "The Hole"; and John "Red" Hamilton, the Canadian-born member of the legendary Dillinger gang.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
The Power Gang of Newfoundland: "Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead!"	p. 13
The Smugglers of Lake Champlain: The Black Snake and the Phoenix II	p. 21
Edwin Johnson: Master Counterfeiter	p. 37
Jack Krafchenko: The Saga of Bloody Jack	p. 49
Tom Bassoff: Shootout in Bellevue	p. 65
Blackie Audett: Liar, Liar	p. 73
Matthew Kolidee: "Me Fool ... Me Get 'Fraid"	p. 81
Toronto's Great Train Robbery: "Like Hawks at Midnight"	p. 89
John Burowski: "Why Should I Shoot My Friend?"	p. 101
The Chatham Train Robbery: "Nothing But Knowing How"	p. 111
Albert Dorland: "I Was Framed!"	p. 119
John "Red" Hamilton: Running With Dillinger	p. 139
Edward McMullen: Death of an Outlaw	p. 171
Sam Behan: Buried Alive	p. 187
Phillips and Lund: "Now Boys Please Take a Warning"	p. 213
Margaret Goede: Kidnapper	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 231
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