"Bad Man."
First appearance: Cosmopolitan, February 1931.
True crime article (2 pages).
Online at Archive.org (HERE).
"Gazing at them, at times I have thought I could give a few of them a tousling myself in a fair fight—but don’t count on me!"
"They don't make 'em like they used to" is an old saying that our author evidently heartily agrees with, as he compares and contrasts the criminal class of fifty years ago (1881) with those of the present day (1931) and finds the latest wild bunch deficient in so many ways. Like people who should know better, he shares a romantic nostalgia for those Wild West outlaws who did their dirty deeds with panache. If there had really been a Lone Ranger, this article probably wouldn't have been written . . .
References:
The respectable ones:
- Clinton County (HERE).
- Charles Lindbergh (HERE).
- The Pinkertons (HERE).
- Vincent Astor (HERE).
- The Prince of Wales (HERE).
- The Winter Garden Theatre (HERE).
- The George M. Cohan Theatre (HERE).
- Robin Hood (HERE). (We're ambivalent about this one.)
The respectable ones (to our author):
- Frank James (HERE).
- Jesse James (HERE).
- The James-Younger gang (HERE).
- Billy the Kid (HERE).
- Cole Younger (HERE).
Disreputable to almost everybody:
- The Rosenthal murder case (HERE).
- Charles Becker (HERE).
- Nathan Kaplan (HERE).
- Johnny Spanish (HERE).
- Max Zwerback (sic) (HERE).
- Jack Zelig (HERE).
- Arnold Rothstein and George "Hump" McManus (HERE).
- "Legs" Diamond (HERE).
Resource:
- O. O. McIntyre was your classic kid from the sticks reacting to the razzle-dazzle life in the Big City, and he milked it for all it was worth. He was often referred to as "Odd" McIntyre. In 1929 Cosmopolitan published a book collection of his stories (HERE).
The bottom line:
Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.
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