Old Sensei

The TSMG wasn't difficult to trace. It was owned by the MA State Police and along with other firearms, was put on display at an auto show. On January 27, 1934, three men waited until the table was left unguarded and took some items, including the TSMG and a 100 round drum. The bank robbery occurred shortly thereafter.

You win!

In the mail:

This article on the TSMG may be a tad "optimistic." Eric A. Dinee, writing in Popular Mechanics, said “The reason why bandits, after committing a holdup or a robbery are able to escape in automobiles, lies in the fact that a police officer equipped with only a regulation pistol and in pursuit of the crooks, finds it difficult to shoot straight and “wing” the bandits. During the demonstrations at Tenafly the sub-machine-gun showed its effectiveness. The weapon was mounted on a motorcycle side-car and operated by a policeman. The motorcycle pursued an automobile containing dummies representing thugs attempting to make a get-away. The auto was towed by another car some 25 or 30 feet ahead. The submachine-gun operator opened fire on the “bandits” car, and shot its tires full of holes, so that the machine had come to a halt. As a matter of fact, the rapid fire would have killed anyone sitting in the automobile. Later it was demonstrated what this anti-bandit gun can really do to a motor car when the latter becomes the target of automatic firing. Three of these weapons blazed away simultaneously on a seven-passenger touring car, and in less than a minute reduced the car to a pile of junk. The tonneau was perforated till it looked like a Swiss cheese, the radiator was torn into shreds, the gas-tank resembled a nutmeg-grater, and the steering gear was turned into an indescribable mass of kindling wood and twisted metal. An incendiary bullet was finally fired into the spilled gasoline and instantly was a mass of flames. In densely populated districts, birdshot cartridges are used with the gun. The birdshot afford severe punishment without causing mortality. A 4 by 5-foot target at which automatic birdshot was directed for five or six seconds was peppered so full of holes that it looked like the face of a man having suffered from a severe case of smallpox. The firing was done at a range of 30 feet, and there was not a spot on the entire target big enough for the smallest mouse to escape death or injury. The gun will fire a magazine of 20 cartridges containing 120 No. S birdshot in 1 3-5 seconds, or 2,400 birdshot in a “burst” of 20 shots. Not more than 20 birdshot cartridges are placed in a magazine, so it requires four minutes to shoot 1,000 birdshot cartridges containing 120,000 birdshot. There is no other gun in the world that shoots both ball and birdshot cartridges. With ball cartridges a policeman can fire 42 shots at six bandits armed with automatics containing seven shots each and, shot for shot, have 58 shots without reloading when the automatics are empty. The gun has accurate range of 2,000 feet when military high-power cartridges, such as are employed in wars, are used, and with police ammunition, the accurate range is 1,500 feet.”

When Greg made my case, I ordered a police model...because I was so sure that with everything topped off, it would be more balanced (by a large percentage). I feel like I have run into the hard wall of science and math. Great information. Thank you.

I will take two as well. I should just sign my social security check over to Dan.

Mae was a modest woman who shunned the spotlight.

(2006), J. Frank Hickey: The Postcard Serial Killer, New York, New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press. (1992), Police and the Use of Force:The Savannah Study, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers.

I have been using Internet Archive for years. Google it and it will come up. You have to sign up and get a password, but it is truly free. Usually if it seems to be too good to be true, it isn't. But not in this case. It boasts millions of items. It has two of my three books available and they almost as rare as a Gutenberg Bible because so few copies sold! As an example, I have posted a manual that you can even download in PDF and print.

Besides that Mrs. Lincoln, what did you think of the play? It took years to get the the WH to run. I sent it out for repair to a few well thought of TSMG smiths (not PK) and when returned it would still not fire single shot, just full auto no matter where the selector was switched. All of the smiths asked for a second chance to repair it, so I have no complaint about their efforts. It was just after shipping and paying for it, why both a second time? The entire story is still too much of a trauma to relate. The final chapter is akin to a cheap spy novel. I asked for assistance from a special forces captain who had recently retired from BATF. I shipped it to a dealer in another country (Texas) who "drove" it to an unnamed gunsmith who "had seen the problem before" and fixed it. At this point, I don't care what he did as long as it works. (I guess he put the frame back into spec, which I was originally told by many, could not be done).

I attached three pages in 2020 of an article I wrote on the Mae West kidnapping. I think if you type in "Mae West" it will probably come up.

In a book (I don't know the title) that provided illustrations of Disney WW2 art, this was found, which I discovered on Internet. I contacted military patch experts and none had ever seen it before, except in the book. An artist who reproduces leather WW2 patches made me one based on the book photo.