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Word: cretzer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...When Lepke Buchalter fled to the G-Men, he was No. 4 on their list of public-enemies-at-large. Ahead of and just below him were four bank robbers. Last week G-Men in Chicago caught his successor in No. 4 position: Joseph Paul Cretzer, a mustached punkaroo who has been popping in & out of western jails since 1927. Arrested with him in a dreary Chicago flat was his wife, Edna May ("Teddy") Cretzer, who pinked a police-man during a getaway last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...most dangerous criminals. Tom Dewey's Leopard, whom he had built up as No. 1, appeared only as No. 4. Ahead of him came Irving Charles Chapman, Texas bank robber, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe* bank robbers, who escaped from Alcatraz two years ago. No. 5 was Paul Cretzer, 29, another bank robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leopard Hunt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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