Indiana’s Reno Gang carried out a crime wave across the Midwest in the years after the Civil War. Train robbery, counterfeiting, burglary and safe-cracking, extortion, arson—the outfit engaged in a number of criminal activities.
For a couple of years, they managed to stay out of jail, primarily by hiring top lawyers and bribing officials. At least twice they murdered men who were ready to testify in c
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