Word: mobsters
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents of Premier Largo Caballero, a courier dispatch from the New York Times correspondent declared: "A majority of Madrid's 850,000 inhabitants apparently hope that the military [White] insurgents will enter soon in order to save the Capital from proletarian misrule and Red Terror...
...once aristocratic Madrid Fine Arts Club mobster judges in blue overalls continued to deal out what they called "Class Justice" last week. With no war or battle in Madrid, the capital's gravediggers by official count were nevertheless burying some 250 corpses per week. In jail sat the once debonair Duke of Zaragoza, the playboy engineer who sometimes took the throttle of King Alfonso's private train, with the Madrid proletariat clamoring outside last week for a chance to throttle him. After a White air raid on the capital Premier Largo Caballero had to use all force...
Joseph Edward Murphy, longtime assistant Chief of the Secret Service, and Grady Lee Boatwright, head of the St. Paul office, set out to see what they could get on the G-Men. Specifically they wanted to show that in killing a minor Dillinger mobster named Eddie Green in St. Paul two years ago, the Department of Justice operatives had shot without warning or cause. This plan presumably went on the rocks when Sleuth Boatwright, posing as a magazine writer in search of new material, confided it to a onetime G-Man. It was not long before the Secret Service...
...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. Only Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell, companion of Karpis in the Bremer kidnapping, remained at large. Alvin Karpis...