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Praise for Canada's Most Overrated Bank Robber "Standing at the foot of the scantling . . . was a thick, freckle-faced man whose prison cap could not hide his flaming head. It was 'Red' Ryan." --Ernest Hemingway "A malicious little bastard." --Ryan's childhood friend "Norman Ryan is a vicious, dangerous and resourceful thief." --Toronto police chief S. J. Dickson "Ryan is well liked in Kingston prison. A fine, handsome, clean-cut man, he stands out as a giant among the inmates." --Athol Gow, Toronto Star "We narrowly escaped meeting him. If we had, we fear we might, like nearly everybody else, have succumbed to his fatal charm." --J. V. MCAREE, The Globe and Mail "I'm glad he is dead." --Senator H. A. Mullins Dubbed "the Jesse James of Canada," Norman "Red" Ryan was infamous in the 1920s and '30s until he was gunned down in an attempted robbery in Sarnia, Ontario. Ernest Hemingway wrote about Ryan's escape from Kingston Penitentiary for the Toronto Star, Morley Callaghan based a novel on him, and stories of Ryan and his daring crimes filled newspapers and airwaves. One of the first Canadians to be granted parole, he was held up by Prime Minister R. B. Bennett as a model of rehabilitation and became a regular guest at Toronto police picnics. All the while, however, Ryan continued a crime spree on the side. With skepticism, humour and an often scathing examination of his own profession, journalist Jim Brown tells the incredible story of "Red" Ryan, a larger-than-life criminal whose fame and legend were much encouraged by the media, leading to deadly results. No library descriptions found. |
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Red Ryan was a Canadian bank robber who claimed to have reformed while in the Kingston Penitentiary. His life sentence was shortened by the government of the day after pressure from the prison chaplain, a judge, a senator and the Toronto Star newspaper because they all came to believe that Ryan had changed his ways,
The crux of the story is that he had taken all this people in with his smooth talk and conman act. To the Star he was news that sold newspapers and it exploited Ryan's notoriety for their gain. The reporters of the newspaper never acknowledged that their reporting led to Ryan being free and eventually killing a young police officer when a bank robbery in Sarnia went bad.
Brown includes a chapter entitled "Toronto the Good" and explains why it earned that name. ( )