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...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...
...Shoot." Within a year Kidnaper 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...
Except for the Lindbergh case, in which Irey got Hauptmann by tracing registered ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...
Died. Edward J. Reilly, 64, flamboyant, old-style criminal lawyer, who in the Roaring Twenties won fame of a sort as the Great Mouthpiece for mobsters and gun molls, was said to have handled nearly 2,000 murder cases, chief defense counsel at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the murder of the Lindbergh baby; of cerebral thrombosis; in Brooklyn...
...exceptions missed by the Tribune in its head-down dash through history: 1) the Lindbergh kidnapping case, where Bruno Richard Hauptmann was named before confession or indictment; 2) the murder of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon by Robert Irwin; 3) many another murder where witnesses have been able to name the killer...