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...Brothers, a St. Louis "heavy man" (hired gang killer), had arrived in Chicago in July 1929. By long secret sleuthing Chief Roche had linked him with the Lingle killing, was convinced he was the actual murderer long before putting eyes on him. Under the alias of Bader, Brothers was living in retirement in a middle-class apartment house. In the same building, just across the hall from "Bader's" apartment, lived a Miss Rose Huebsch whom Roche knew. After an attempt to capture Brothers on a railroad train had failed, Chief Roche enlisted Miss Huebsch...
...story authoritatively circulated by the reliable United Press was to the effect that Alphonse Capone himself had supplied the tip to Roche which led to Brothers' capture. The theory behind this report was that Lingle had been murdered on orders of the North Side Aiello-Zuta gang, that consequent police activity had damaged Gangster Capone's vice and gambling business on the South Side and that the "turning up" of Brothers was simply a Capone device to smooth public outrage and deflect police scrutiny...
...fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict, and finally dies behind a billboard, chewed by bullets from a policeman's machine-gun. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more...
...friends insist that Capone talked as reported, with the stipulation that he would deny it to save his own face. Other Brundidge exploits: expose of the Midwest medical ''diploma mill" scandals of 1924; conviction in 1925 of Ray Renard ("The Fox") of the notorious Egan gang and the solution thereby of 22 murders. Also in 1925 he got a job as deckhand on a rumship plying between New Orleans and Havana, wrote thereafter a series of articles on liquor smuggling...
...film, which most foreigners have regarded as not in the least derogatory to the German character, as a means of propaganda against the Government in the time of a national crisis. Seen from this angle the censorship would appear like a weak surrender to the demagogues of the Hitlerite gang at a moment when the Reich needed, as never before, to present a firm front to its citizens and the world...