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Last spring a Denver bartender named Lloyd ("Red") Barker was shot and killed by his wife. Local newspapers first carried it as a routine homicide, then speculated that the victim might be the last of the four notorious Barker brothers who, with their gangster mother, terrorized the Midwest in the '30s. Barren Beshoar, chief of our Denver news bureau, set out to find...
From barroom characters who had known Red Barker, Beshoar learned that there might be some trunks in storage. He got hold of the lawyer who was handling the estate. They picked up a locksmith and went to the warehouse. There, among a litter of old shoes, shirts, letters and miscellaneous personal belongings, they found a handwritten manuscript which turned out to be Red's version of the story of the Barker brothers' life. That made the death of the local bartender national news, and the story appeared in the April...
...Laws. One March day in 1932 a German-born carpenter named Bruno Hauptmann sneaked into a house in Hopewell, N.J. and kidnaped the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh. Across the country the unchecked armed mobs of John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker gang were leaving a trail of robbery, murder and kidnaping...
...Hauptmann was arrested (though the credit belonged more to local police and T-men than the FBI). Pretty Boy Floyd was cornered on an Ohio farm and riddled with FBI bullets. Baby Face Nelson was trapped and shot down in a Chicago suburb. In January 1935 Ma and Fred Barker were killed after a two-hour FBI siege in the little Florida town of Oklawaha...
Boiling mad, he returned to his office and demanded the latest reports on Alvin Karpis, the last of the Barker gang. Then he flew down to New Orleans, personally led the raiding squad into Karpis' hideout. Since then no one has ever questioned either Hoover's courage or his budget...