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Zwick9s Nerves Shattered By Fear Of Electric ChairFoxy Bob Zwick, iTch-crimlnal and head of a gang, ihrz* members ot whteh are in custody at Dayton. Ohio, is not the brave criminal his record would indicate, ''Poxy'1 Is al-k *, misnomer, according to tlio confession of Alien ScUerrcr, one cf the bandits, who Has revealed much of the Inside workings of Zwtck's gang,Acording ,to ScHerrer, Zwlck is extremely nervous, suspicious of everyone including hb own bench* men to the extent of threatening- to kill them if they disobey tils order,?.Scherrer relates an incident when they lived in Day ten and he wished to go to a picture show, lie threatened to disregard the orders of Zwlck, who was fearful that Scherrer would be picked up if he showed him self on the street.Machine Gun Threat4,WelJ, I’m going to the picture show/’ Scherrer said.Zwick whipped out a ,45-CRiitorc pistol, a shot rang out and the bullet scared Scharrer’s tteeh.“Now if you want mere IVe got r machine gun upstairs, Zwlck said.Scherrer didn’t go to a picture show, but strangely enough, was arrested on his way to a picture show after Zaick had Mi Dayton for Folrida. It was his resentment of Zwick's schcoi master tactics, which led Scherrer to tell what hi knows. The picture show obsession still sticks. Scherrer wants to servehis sentence « he can join the navy and see at first hand all the exotic scenes filmed by a week I v newsreel.Beat Dago KoseScherrer described the tantrums Into which the slightest event would throw Zwlck. He beat Dago Rose Meyers terribly, he 3ato.“None of the gang liked Zwlck, unless it was Dago Rose'', he said. ‘'The reason was that Zwick double-crossed everybody,”Edward Doc” Kota was really the leader of the gang Df which Zwick was the formal head, Sober* rer said.Before Zwick was wounded and Turkey Joe Jacobs killed near Symmes Corner, Roth could put his finger on Zwick at any time in the day or night but Zwick never knew where Roth was.“Roth ir. a Jot smarter and braver than Zwick. he said. He's from the East, cither Brooklyn or Now York. He has plenty of swell connections there and he can g*t anything done he wants In Chicago, too.Had Hair DyedHe’s a firm looking niah. Well educated, He can converse intellt-gently on any subject with anyone. He was a blond ,but I understand that now he’s had his liair, eye-ladies and eyebrow's dyed black. He got a permanent wave, too, and it changes his looks altogether.“That guy Roth is plenty smart, I’m tolling you. Zwick is Just Jueky and a, double crosser, TT-e was born with a horseshoe around his neck. Three or four times It was Just dumb luck that he happen id to move oul ot a place about an hour before the police closed in,”Scherrer said he could prove Zwick was a double-crosci* by just one example,When Turkey Jos Jacobs whs killed, Zwlck was wounded by the same machine gun. They got him to Covington, Ky., and got old Dr. Digby, the city doctor, to attend to Mm, Doe Digby was afraid to say anything to anyone, but It all came out later. Remember? Well, Zwick was staying at the home of Dick Wells, the Covington bootlegger, at the time.And what does he do, no’soon-er than he gels well enough, but turn right around and hijack Wells out of a carload of liquor and a big roll of money on the roads near Covington/’Sait Against Dentist Hag Been SettledCase of William H. Mason, Jr., against Dr. E, J, Harkracier, Middletown dentist, has been settled and was dismissed from common pleaj court Tuesday. Mason sued and recovered a judgment for personal injuries, caused when a needle was broken oil in his Jaw white being treated.The population of Java S. D„ h?s increased from 52? to 52$ since J920 hie census ha* disclosed.
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Hamilton Daily News
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Tue, May 27, 1930
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