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 Kiev. Vladimir wished to hear Nightingale the Robber whistle, but the creature claimed he was too wounded to whistle. Nightingale the Robber requested wine to drink so that his wounds would disappear, then he would whistle for the prince. When he whistled all of Vladimir's palaces were destroyed and many lay dead. After this, Ilya Muromets took Nightingale the Robber into an open field and cut off his head (Bailey, pp. 28–36). 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