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...last spring by Director J. Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Department of Justice's Division of Investigation on Lester M. Gillis, 25. Since he was 13, pink-cheeked little Gillis had been in & out of reform school and prison as a smalltime automobile thief, hold-up man. bank robber. But he did not become a headline lawbreaker until last year when, under the name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred of police. After...
...acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment when Depression...
...such, Commissioner O'Ryan personally supervised the ensuing robber hunt. Interborough bridges were scrupulously policed, suspicious-looking autoists halted and frisked for guns or loot. Up from Floyd Bennett Field soared two police planes to scout up the Sound, down the New Jersey coast for Popeye and its companion craft. To work straight 24-hr. shifts on the case until it was solved, 25 of the youngest detectives on the force were selected, because their faces would be less familiar to criminals. On the supposition that the hold-up men had left New York, Department of Justice agents were ready...
Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, Oklahoma badman and bank robber. Born in Georgia, raised in the Ozarks, Floyd in 1925 began a model training for crime: five years in the Missouri Penitentiary for highway robbery. Later he was largely responsible for the fact that Oklahoma country banks at that time paid the highest robbery insurance rate in the country. In one year he killed two Government informers in Kansas City, a Federal agent, a policeman. Last year he was spotted as the man who led the Kansas City massacre in Union Station during which four officers and their prisoner were...
They took all that was left of the most notorious killer and robber of 1934 to the Chicago morgue. There they laid his naked corpse out on a rubber slab and the Hearstpapers also laid him out in gruesome front-page newspictures.* In Washington Attorney General Cummings heaved a mighty sigh of relief...