John Callahan (outlaw) outlaws of the "Public Enemy"-era such as Edward J. Adams and Pretty Boy Floyd. Floyd may have, in fact, gotten his start in the underworld by transporting bootleg liquor for Callahan before becoming a bank robber. Callahan was eventually convicted of drug smuggling and was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. He would serve only seven years before his release and retired to Wichita where he died in his sleep on June 8, 1936, at age 70. John Callahan (outlaw) John Callahan (1866 – June 8, 1936) was an American outlaw and bank robber during the closing days of the Old
Nightingale the Robber Nightingale the Robber Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand (), an epic robber, appears in traditional Russian byliny (folk poems). Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov discovered a version of the legend of Solovei in a 17th-century handwritten collection of stories and published it in the Russian newspaper he edited, "Nizhegorodskie gubernskie vedomosti" (the Nizhny Novgorod Government News), in 1845 and 1847. In 1867 Melnikov wrote: It [the story] still lives in people's memory and was found by us 20 years ago [...] in one of handwritten collection of stories of the 17th century. In the ancient times, where Nizhny Novgorod now