<1936 newspaper w front page report ofthe NOTORIOUS BARKER-KARPIS GANG Gangsters

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1936 newspaper w front page report ofthe NOTORIOUS BARKER-KARPIS GANG Gangsters -
inv #1I-210
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Baltimore News-Post
(MD) dated May 5, 1936 with fantastic GREAT DEPRESSION. 'Public Enemy' Era gangster history from the Barker-Karpis Gang!
The Barker–Karpis gang was put together by Fred Barker and Alvin Karpis in March 1931. Barker and Karpis had met in the Kansas State Penitentiary, and upon Karpis's release in March 1931, started to form the gang. The gang began robbing banks starting in mid-1931, but on December 19 of that year, they killed Howell County, Missouri Sheriff Calvin Roy Kelly in West Plains, Missouri. They fled to Joplin, and then to Saint Paul, Minnesota where crime boss Harry Sawyer (born Harry Sandlovich) found them at house at 1031 Roberts Road, owned by Helen Hannegraff. They used the name "Anderson", but a few weeks later, Helen's son Nick recognized Alvin's and Fred's photos in a copy of True Detective Magazine, and contacted the police. The corrupt chief of police, Thomas A "Big Tom" Brown, tipped the Barkers off and they left town. Doc Barker later joined the gang in 1932 after he was paroled from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, where he had been serving a life sentence for the murder of night watchman Thomas J. Sherrill in 1921. The gang was led by the three of them, although many others rotated in and out of the gang including Fred Goetz and Volney Davis. The gang continued their bank robbing activities until mid-1933, when they decided that robbing banks was becoming risky, and therefore decided to diverge into the field of kidnapping. Their graduation to more serious crime was mentored by Brown.
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