Little More Than Neighborhood Thugs, They Still Left a Big Black Mark

The Blalock-Fry Gang pulled off a string of robberies. On the night of March 16, 1888, in Columbus, Kansas, John and William Blalock shot Constable David Gordon, then crossed the road to their home, where their mother, Ellen, asked them about the gunfire. John, 28, told her he and Bill, 26, had killed “some goddamn …

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