Editorial
Adhesive tape was a fairly recent invention when robbers began finding it especially handy in their field of endeavor. It was quicker and easier to bind and gag a victim with strips of the sticky material than with cloth or rope. And a roll of tape was far easier to carry around. Due to the novelty of this approach, newspapers dubbed groups that used it, “tape bandits.”
We learn in this issue’s feature by Jeffery S. King (Preview), that notorious gangster George “Baby Face” Nelson once led a group of these enterprising tape bandits.
Also in this issue:
- Saving a person from the electric chair may not always be the same as saving the person’s “life.” Thomas Hunt’s article (Preview) reveals that one wrongly convicted man was emotionally destroyed despite Detective Joseph Petrosino’s heroic efforts to free him from Sing Sing’s Death House.
- Did Albany’s powerful O’Connell Machine ensure the 1930s conviction and electrocution of widow Anna Antonio merely to shield local bootlegging and narcotics rackets? Ellen Poulsen considers the question (Preview).
- Author Christian Cipollini reveals past, present and what might happen if he ever smiled for a photograph (Preview).
- Richard N. Warner explores the unsolved murder of Chicago’s Sam Giancana (Preview).
- Thomas Hunt ponders “Wherefore art thou, [Frank] Romeo?” (Preview).
- Book reviews and announcements (Preview).
Sixty-eight pages.
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