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Miami, Fla., Feb. 4--Assistant District Attorney W. Sanders Gramling left for Jacksonville tonight to ask the Federal Grand Jury to indict three companions of Alvin Karpis and two men charged with harboring the Bremer kidnap suspect...
...Hoover called the brainiest, most dangerous gang in the U. S. Their brains, said the chief of the Federal Division of Investigation, were in the head of plump, thin-lipped, shrewish "Ma" Barker. Outstanding among their feats of killing, bank robbery and kidnapping was the abduction of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, for whom they collected $200,000 ransom (TIME...
...Bremer County, Iowa, back in 1906, a tall, gaunt, 42-year-old man named Joseph Newt Finney was blasting rock at his trade of fence-builder. A charge of dynamite went off prematurely. But he lived. He was blown up again in 1910. But when he was hit in 1922, he was blown to the gates of Kingdom Come. While the local doctor was working over him, neighbors remarked dolefully that it was good he was a bachelor and would not leave a widow to grieve...
...Finney did not pass through the pearly gates. Last week he was still in Bremer County, still a bachelor. At 70, he is stooped from the explosion which crippled and palsied him. Nowadays he does odd jobs, chiefly picking beans for a local cannery. This year his total earnings were $31, but he still dresses as neatly as his income will allow and the county thinks highly of the beetle-browed, mustachioed...
...cases in which the Department of Justice has as yet failed to score with the capture of the culprits: Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, snatched last January; June Robles, 6, stolen from her Tucson, Ariz, home last April. Last week Federal sleuths cleared up their 32nd and 33rd cases of extortion and abduction since the Lindbergh Law in record time...