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A worker for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals lifts a dog into the back of his van for transportation to the society's headquarters where the animal will be fed and cared for. USA, ca. 1950. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Frank Reno 1837-1868 a member of the Reno Gang, also known as the Reno Brothers Gang and The Jackson Thieves, were a group of criminals that operated in the Midwestern United States during and just after the American Civil War. Though short-lived, they carried out the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history. Most of the stolen money was never recovered. The gang was broken up by the lynching's of ten of its members by vigilante mobs in 1868. The murders created an international diplomatic incident with Canada and Great Britain, a general public uproar, and international newspaper coverage. No one was ever identified or prosecuted for the lynching's. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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