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  • Police solve Oregon’s own “Roaring Twenties” murder mystery

    Aug 9, 2020

    Boxcar Bandits By Finn J.D. John The sun had just gone down on a warm early-summer night, and the twilight was in the final stages of fading away when Union Pacific Railroad special agents Buck Phillips and H.G. Schneider stepped into the railroad yard to make the rounds. There had been some issues in the railyard. A gang of thieves had been systematically pillaging the railroad. Their M.O. was a simple one, and evidently pretty effective: they’d sneak aboard an outbound boxcar full of cigarettes and, while the train was en route, start c...

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