Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If he were alive today, John Ashley might be just another street thug. Instead, the tall man with the glass eye became South ...

If he were alive today, John Ashley might be just another street thug. Instead, the tall man with the glass eye became South Florida's most romanticized gangster. Long before Bonnie Parker and Clyde ...

In the early 1900s, Bonnie and Clyde murdered, kidnapped and robbed banks across the South. Al Capone was the head honcho of organized crime in Chicago. And the Ashley Gang bootlegged, ran moonshine ...

A hundred years ago, the scene inside the Bank of Pompano unspooled like Hollywood cinema. At noon on a warm September day, a tall, handsome man — John Ashley, ringleader of the desperado Ashley Gang ...

If he were alive today, John Ashley might be just another street thug. Instead, the tall man with the glass eye became South Florida's most romanticized gangster. Long before Bonnie Parker and Clyde ...