Last Gangster in Austin : : Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia / / Jesse Sublett.
Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his...
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Sublett, Jesse, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Last Gangster in Austin : Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia / Jesse Sublett. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022] ©2021 1 online resource (224 p.) : 14 b&w photos text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author’s Note: A Deep Dive -- Introduction: Junkyard Owner Shotguns Robber: Was It a Setup? 6 -- Baptist Preacher’s Son -- The Eagle Scout -- Texas Package -- The Big Hassle -- Best Job He Ever Had -- The Two Franks -- This Is War -- He Can Always Go Step on Bugs -- A Is for Arson -- The Robbery -- Power -- Star Time -- The Trial -- Aftermath -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Ronnie Earle was a Texas legend. During his three decades as the district attorney responsible for Austin and surrounding Travis County, he prosecuted corrupt corporate executives and state officials, including the notorious US congressman Tom DeLay. But Earle maintained that the biggest case of his career was the one involving Frank Hughey Smith, the ex-convict millionaire, alleged criminal mastermind, and Dixie Mafia figure. With the help of corrupt local authorities, Smith spent the 1970s building a criminal empire in auto salvage and bail bonds. But there was one problem: a rival in the salvage business threatened his dominance. Smith hired arsonists to destroy the rival; when they botched the job, he sent three gunmen, but the robbery they planned was a bloody fiasco. Investigators were convinced that Smith was guilty, but many were skeptical that the newly elected and inexperienced Earle could get a conviction. Amid the courtroom drama and underworld plots the book describes, Willie Nelson makes a cameo. So do the private eyes, hired guns, and madams who kept Austin not only weird but also riddled with vice. An extraordinary true story, Last Gangster in Austin paints an unusual picture of the Texas capital as a place that was wild, wonderful, and as crooked as the dirt road to paradise. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) Gangsters Texas Austin Biography. Organized crime Texas Austin History 20th century. Public prosecutors Texas Austin Biography. Trials Texas Austin History 20th century. HISTORY / General. bisacsh true crime, Austin Texas, Texas, gangster, Mafia, Dixie Mafia, organized crime, 1970s, crime reporting. https://doi.org/10.7560/325858 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477323991 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477323991/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author’s Note: A Deep Dive -- Introduction: Junkyard Owner Shotguns Robber: Was It a Setup? 6 -- Baptist Preacher’s Son -- The Eagle Scout -- Texas Package -- The Big Hassle -- Best Job He Ever Had -- The Two Franks -- This Is War -- He Can Always Go Step on Bugs -- A Is for Arson -- The Robbery -- Power -- Star Time -- The Trial -- Aftermath -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Photo Credits -- Index |
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