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Irene McCann, Gangster(ess)

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/01/363976/getting-to-know-her-gangster-aunt.html

At age 17, in the late 1920s, McCann ran away from her husband of three years and eventually hooked up with Albert McCann, a new beau and a partner in crime, whom she would eventually marry.

Around 1931, they traveled across Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, sticking up filling stations and drugstores - "enough to keep us in the money," a 20-year-old Irene McCann told a United Press International reporter in an interview at a Missouri prison.
 

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"Age 17", "husband of three years". That tells you a lot. A lot of people had very few options back then. Obviously she didn't live long. A lot of folks like that wound up with TB. I wonder if that's what did her in. Henry Louis Gates! Can you help us?!
 

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