— YOUNG AND DEADLY — James Riley, a quiet and frail-looking teenager, stood at the bar in Perry Tuttle’s Dance Hall in Newton, Kansas, and watched a stranger approach his friend Mike McCluskie. The man called McCluskie a coward and then shot him in the neck.

The Emporia News later identified the gunman as, Hugh Anderson.

According to the newspaper, Anderson—the son of a wealthy Texas cattle rancher—entered [...]
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