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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1926
Page
5
Richard Reese Temone, known as the million-dollar gang admit, was hanged at midnight for killing Art A Holtman, a Maryland penitentiary guard eighteen months earlier. He spoke farewell and showed a calm smile as he moved to the gallows, the trap opening at 12:08 a.m.
Richard Reese Whittemore, the gang leader known for the Maryland prison guard killing, faced execution after the U S Supreme Court denied a writ of error. The case traced a rapid rise and fall of his crime ring spanning Maryland New York Chicago Cleveland and Buffalo with millions in loot and internal disputes among the gang members.
A collage of postwar quotations praising Wilson and American resolve, with critical European views from 1918 to 1926. The block also recounts the Whittemore gang case in Baltimore, detailing Mrs. Whittemore’s courtroom silence, the murder verdict for her husband, appeals denials, and related killings attributed to the gang.
Fire at the James King farm two miles west of Germantown Maryland yesterday caused about 30 000 in damage. The blaze started in a straw rick near the barn during intense heat and destroyed the dwelling valued at 15 000 barn 8 000 meathouse corn house pumping station 4500 bushels of wheat and various implements and hay. Furniture was saved and insurance covered most losses.
The firm of M. B. and W. M. Richards known as Loudoun Manor was dissolved on June 26 by mutual consent.
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