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Crime Does Not Pay #69
Crime Does Not Pay #69 is an anthology featuring multiple crime stories. One prominent story depicted involves a gambling operation where criminals engage in a high-stakes card game, with dialogue revealing schemes involving public relations work and dissolving a company for profit. Another story, "The Gruesome Foursome: Including Emil, the Half-Wit," chronicles four deadly hoodlums—Harvey Weston, Peter Folette, and Emil Reardon among them—who terrorized an entire city at the turn of the century through a campaign of robbery and cold-blooded murder, with the narrative set in Chicago in October 1901.