State v. Bittner

This case is an echo of the work of certain gangsters in the peaceful city of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three persons, to wit, the defendant, Frank Bittner, his accomplice, Casey Navin, and the deceased, George Mclntire, were 7 7 ° 7 professional gamblers and bootleggers. A fourth ° " party, known as Red Watson, whom counsel for defendant terms a professional gunman from _ . Omaha, was brought onto the scene of action by Bittner and Navin, for the sole purpose of acting with the two men in the perpetration of a robbery of George Mclntire, the deceased. It was the imported gunman, Watson, who fired…