Word: hamm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had he personally directed the raid in which murderous Alvin ("Old Creepy'') Karpis was seized than Director Hoover flew the scrawny captive to St. Paul, left him to be tried for the $100,000 kidnapping of Brewer William Hamm, hurried back to Washington. Last week Director Hoover swooped down on Toledo, Ohio, led a dozen agents to an apartment house at dawn, captured Karpis' fellow gangster, crippled Harry Campbell...
Paul's Brewer William Hamm, one crime of the three kidnappings. 15 bank robberies and at least three murders of which he is suspected...
...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 indictment in St. Paul last week for the Hamm snatching...
...Hamm Solution. "I think we've solved the Hamm kidnapping at last," exulted Director Hoover, handing newshawks his third exciting press announcement within three days. Briefly it announced the arrest at separate points of three men, virtually unknown in police circles, for the kidnapping in June 1933 of St. Paul's Brewer William A. Hamm Jr., released four days later after payment of $100,000 ransom. Also named as co-kidnappers were three men now in jail. Still at large for this and a score of other crimes is Alvin Karpis...
...William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer, was abducted in June 1933. Because he could not identify his captors, Gangster Roger Touhy & mob went free. But Federal agents promptly hung the kidnapping of Gambler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor on them and Illinois sent Touhy & gang to the penitentiary for years & years...