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...melodramatic year 1933, spindly Alvin Karpis joined forces in St. Paul with Kate ("Ma") Barker and her sons Fred and Arthur. In little more than a year the Karpis-Barker gang became the nation's most formidable criminal outfit, made nearly $500,000 by robbing banks, kidnapping such folk as St. Paul's Brewer William Hamm and Banker Edward George Bremer. Then police and G-Men began weeding the gang out. "Ma" and Fred Barker and another mobster died un der Federal guns. Six other Barker-Karpis hoodlums and accomplices were put behind bars, seven more were under...
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From the "Marchioness," exonerated by the police, and a jailed bond "fence" named David Frank, police got the lead which subsequently revealed that the gang maintained headquarters in Monte Carlo, entertained prospective customers with yachting trips along the Côte d'Azur, houseparties at their French chateaux. Last week the French Surété Generale, on the obliging advice of Prince Louis II of Monaco, who seemed curiously well acquainted with the gang, pounced on one Hungarian and one Czechoslovakian with $440,000 of the Devine securities, when some of them were being offered for sale...
...gang at the front gate-which included a student railroad ticket salesman from Wabash College, the opera salesmen and two students from Northwestern University who took the opera tickets at the gate-was talking things over when a small Italian boy came running up to us almost out of breath. He was so excited that for a minute he could say nothing, but after a rest he told us what had happened...
Died. Rt. Rev. Monsignor Timothy ("Father Tim") Dempsey, 68, organizer & operator of six St. Louis poor asylums, mediator of many a gang and labor dispute, best-loved Catholic priest in a big Catholic town; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...