Bill Harlan - from our story 'Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania'

In March, 1933, Bill Harlan, the 17-year-old son of a respected local family, held up a local inn at the end of a two-month crime spree in which he broke into local homes, stole jewellery and weapons and robbed a hardware store at gunpoint. He was spared jail and spent a year in boy’s reformatory.

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