It was grey dawn. Upstairs in a farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission.
Thus last week was Fred Burke, "the most dangerous man alive" in the eyes of the Federal Government and police of 18 states, who had...
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