Packet 10: Tossup 8

After leaving the Prussian Army, one of these people named Herman Lamm developed a namesake technique for these people that involved using “git” maps marking “cat roads.” One of these people named Frank Nash was killed in the Kansas City massacre by another of them named Vernon Miller. (-5[1])The Joplin Globe published iconic photographs of some of these people, one of whom wrote the poem “The Story of Suicide Sal.” One of these people was killed at the “Battle of Barrington” following (-5[1])his escape from the Little Bohemia Lodge. (10[2])The “Woman in Red,” Anna Sage, (10[1])helped (10[1])Melvin Purvis (10[2])track one of these people (-5[3])to the Biograph Theater. (10[1])Frank Hamer (10[1])led the (10[1])Texas Rangers in hunting (-5[1])two of these people (10[2])until they were killed in Shreveport. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name these people who included John Dillinger (10[2])and (10[1])the leaders of the (10[1])“Barrow Gang,” Bonnie and Clyde. (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: bank robbers [accept outlaws or mobsters or fugitives or criminals or thieves or burglars or bandits; accept gangsters until “Gang” is read] (The fourth line refers to Baby Face Nelson, a member of the Dillinger Gang.)
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