• The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger...
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  • Charles Birger (category Prohibition gangs)
    his war with the Shelton Brothers Gang, fought over control of bootlegging in the area. By October 1926, the Birger and Shelton Gangs were in open conflict...
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  • criminal gang leader, and a former member of the Shelton Brothers Gang during Prohibition. Wortman would eventually succeed the Sheltons, and take over...
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  • Prohibition-era gangs Galveston Downtown Gang Beach Gang Sam Maceo's Organisation Broadway Mob Ma Beland gang The Lanzetta Brothers Shelton Brothers Gang Sheldon...
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  • Irish Mob (redirect from Irish Gang Wars)
    adaptation. The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era gang that controlled bootlegging in Southern Illinois. The Shelton Brothers Gang and rival...
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  • Drug cartel (redirect from Drug gang)
    Beach Gang The Maceo syndicate Shelton Brothers Gang Sheldon Gang Broadway Mob The Lanzetta Brothers Circus Cafe Gang Wandering Family Remus organization...
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    people, and for the Shelton Brothers Gang, notorious bootleggers who fought it out with the Harrisburg, Illinois-based Birger Gang to control criminal...
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    Clyde W. Robbins, farmer and politician Shelton Brothers Gang, Southern Illinois, Prohibition era gangsters, brothers Carl, Earl, and Bernie were born and...
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    the Herrin massacre, the Klan War, and a gang rivalry between the Shelton Brothers Gang and Charles Birger's gang. The building is now a history museum and...
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    City became notorious for bootlegging and gambling. The Birger and Shelton Brothers gangs vied for control of illegal activities in the area. In April 1923...
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  • southern Illinois bootlegger and gang leader Charles Birger, for Adams's support for Birger's rivals, the Shelton Brothers Gang. Adams is the eighth known victim...
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  • Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (category The Purple Gang)
    surrounding area were overrun by the warring bootleg factions of the Shelton Brothers Gang and Charlie Birger. Farmer had ties with Egan's Rats, based 100...
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    Blake Tollison Shelton (born June 18, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single "Austin"...
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  • bootlegger based in the southern region of Illinois: Birger's gang, along with the Shelton Brothers gang, waged war with each other, and the local Ku Klux Klan...
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    The Mob. 2013. ISBN 9781491055229 Sadowsky, Sandy. Wedded to Crime: My Life in the Jewish Mafia. 1992. New Voices: Left Off the Ark—A Bestiary of Gangs...
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    was known as Bloody Williamson for years to come. The Shelton Brothers Gang and Charles Birger gangs operated in Southern Illinois in the 1920s during Prohibition...
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  • (Blake Shelton) nearly jeopardizes their plan, and set off to ransom their father. On the way, the Ridiculous 6 come across the Left-Eye Gang who have...
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  • he stopped over in Herrin, Illinois during a gang war between Charlie Birger and the Shelton Brothers Gang. Birger had been bombed from the air and he...
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    administration had faced allegations of ties to gangsters like the Shelton Brothers Gang. The 1947 Centralia mine disaster also greatly harmed the image...
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  • time through localized settlements. In Harrisburg, Illinois, the Shelton Brothers Gang used a Curtiss JN-4 biplane to try to bomb rival gangster Charles...
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  • made illegal, Birger became a bootlegger. He was at war with the Shelton Brothers Gang for control of (illegal) alcohol sales across Southern Illinois...
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  • End of the Road (2022 film) (category Films directed by Millicent Shelton)
    the Road is a 2022 American crime thriller film directed by Millicent Shelton, written by Christopher J. Moore and David Loughery, and produced by Tracey...
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  • syndicate leader Frank Wortman, St. Louis crime syndicate leader and Shelton Gang member September 22 – Joseph Valachi, Genovese crime family soldier,...
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  • seven different ethnic gangs: the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, the Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Shelton Gang and the Cuckoos all fighting...
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  • True History of the Kelly Gang is a 2019 bushranger film directed by Justin Kurzel, written by Shaun Grant, and based upon the 2000 novel of the same name...
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  • White Men Can't Jump (category Films directed by Ron Shelton)
    Jump is a 1992 American sports comedy film written and directed by Ron Shelton. It stars Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as streetball hustlers. The...
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    Jayne Friedt, 20; Daniel Davis, 16; Mark Flemmonds, 16; and Ruth Ellen Shelton, 17. A fellow employee who came by at midnight to visit the four noticed...
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  • Clark and Tanya Tucker. Winners are shown in bold. CMT Music Awards "Country music fans name Shelton entertainer of year". The Daily News. June 11, 1991....
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  • cast her in what had become Tumbleweeds (in which he co-starred); he and Shelton were forced to finance the film themselves after being unable to find backers...
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  • sheriff is a cousin of the Shelton brothers. Knowing that Cole is determined to bring Bragg to the gallows, the Sheltons and the sheriff free Bragg and...
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