Robert George Irwin...Veronica Gedeon murder...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 29, 1937



* Killer Robert George Irwin

* Artist - sculptor - mental patient

* Model Veronica Gedeon - Easter murders



The front page has a banner headline: "3 EASTER TRAGEDIES; 8 SLAIN" with subheads: "Find Artist's Model Dead in Mystery" (see images) First report coverage continues on page 5 with photo of Gedeon. Always nice to have nota... See More  

1937 Sioux Falls S.D. powder house explosion....

THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 1, 1937



* Sioux Falls, South Dakota

* Powder house explosion

* Robbery gone awry



Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading: "Girl, Shot by Gang, Sees It Execute Member By Dynamite Which Rocks Sioux Falls, S.D." (see) First report coverage of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota powder house blast.

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1936 Brady Gang jail escape...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, October 12, 1936



* Greenfield, Indiana jail break

* Pre Al Brady Gang shootout

* Bangor, Maine fame



The front page has a nice banner headline: "KILLERS BREAK INDIANA JAIL" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display. A few related photos are on the back page. This was about a year prior to their infamous shootout with F.B.I. agents in Bangor, Maine.

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Black Legion arrests... Virgil Effinger...

THE DETROIT NEWS, Aug. 21, 1936



* Black Legion - White supremacists

* Virgil Effinger - KKK - Ku Klux Klan

* re. Charles Poole murder



The front page has a banner headline: "22 Black Legion Officers Are Indicted" with subheads. (see) Nice for display. Another banner headline on page 2. (see)

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"Public Enemy No. 1" captured... Alvin Karpis...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, July 28, 1936



* Alvis (creepy) Karpis gets life

* Last public Enemy No. 1

* Early F.B.I. case



The top of page 11 has a one column heading: "KARPIS AND AID GIVEN LIFE FOR HAMM KIDNAPPING" with subhead. (see images) First report coverage on former "public enemy no. 1" gangster, Alvin Karpis, receiving a life sentence for his crimes.

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Al 'Scarface' Capone stabbed at Alcatraz...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 24, 1936



* Al 'Scarface' Capone

* Alcatraz Island prison



The back page has one column headlines: "CAPONE IS STABBED BY ALCATRAZ FELON" "Fellow Convict Plunges Scissors Into Ex-Gangster in Prison Barber Shop" "Latter Fells Assailant" "Attack Is Laid to Hatred of the Inmates for Chicagoan, Who Is Termed 'a Rat'" ... See More  

1936 Black Legion murder arrests...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, May 23, 1936



* Black Legion - American terrorists arrests

* Charles Poole murder - lynching

* Works Progress Administration organizer



The front page has a great banner headline: "ARREST 7 AS ROBED SLAYERS" with subheads. Nice for display. Four related photos are on the back page. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous pu... See More  

Slot machines banned...

TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Massachusetts, May 6, 1936



* Slot machines - gambling devices

* Nice gangster era headline



This 12 page newspaper has a great banner headline that reads: "SLOT MACHINES BANNED" with subheads (see photos). Not a historic event here but a nice headline for display during the time of the illegal Silent Bell slot machines located in local bars and taverns.



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Lucky Luciano arrested...

THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany, New York, April 18, 1936



* Charles "Lucky' Luciano arrested

* New York City gangster



This 16 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 3: "LUCIANO ON WAY EAST UNDER GUARD", "Detectives to Board Train at Albany; $350,000 Bail Proposed"



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Bruno Hauptmann dies in the electric chair...

THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT (weekly), North Carolina, April 6, 1936 



* Bruno Hauptmann execution (1st report)

* Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping



The ftpg. has reports headed: "Bruno Hauptmann Pays For Crime" "Dies In Chair Without Word Of Confession" "Walked Calmly to Electric Chair, Millions Think He Had Accomplices In Kidnap-Killing of Lindbergh Child" plus ... See More  

Hauptmann is electrocuted for the murder of the Lindbergh baby...

TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Mass., April 4, 1936 



* Bruno Hauptmann execution (1st report)

* Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping



The front page has a banner headline: "Bruno's Secret Dies With Him" with subheads. (see images)

More on this on pages 4 and 5 as well.

Complete with 10 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, more so along the spine, generally good.... See More  

Bruno Hamptmann executed... Lindbergh kidnapping...

THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1936 



* Bruno Hauptmann execution (1st report) 

* Charles Lindbergh Jr. baby kidnapping  



The front page has a two column headline: "HAUPTMANN DIES, AS WAS EXPECTED, SILENT, UNAFRAID" with subheads that include: "Walks Steadily To Chair After Again Claiming He Was Innocent" and more. 1st report covera... See More  

Astounding revelations about Bruno Hauptmann....

RADIO GUIDE, Chicago, Illinois, April 4, 1936  The cover of this issue features an illustration of a young lady reading a book. Inside the issue is: "What Winchell Knows About (Bruno) Hauptmann"; "It's Tough To Be On Top"; and more. This includes the radio schedule for the week. This also has advertisements as well.

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Bruno Hauptmann....

RADIO GUIDE, Chicago, Illinois, March 21, 1936  The cover of this issue features an illustration of Louise Massey of "The Westerners". Inside the issue is: "What Winchell Knows About (Bruno) Hauptmann"; "It Will Still Go 'Round"; "Cradle Snatching" and more. This includes the radio schedule for the week. This also has advertisements as well.

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Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, February 17, 1936



* Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassination

* St. Valentine's Day Massacre fame

* Al 'Scarface' Capone hit man

* Best title to be had - very rare as such



The top of page 3 has a one column heading: "AUTO OF M'GURN, SOUGHT SINCE, IS FOUND" with subhead. (see) When it comes to gangsters, organized crime, and the nefar... See More  

Death for the killer of Lindbergh's baby...

THE DETROIT NEWS, Dec. 9, 1935 



* Bruno Hauptmann death sentence appeal fails

* Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping



The bold banner headline announces: "BRUNO DENIED APPEAL" and subheads. Nice for display.

Complete 1st section only with 20 pages, rage edition, light toning, a little spine wear, generally in very nice condition.... See More  

1935 Garrettsville, Ohio train robbery...

THE DETROIT NEWS, November 8, 1935 



* Garrettsville, Portage co., Ohio train robbery

* Gangsters Alvin Karpis -  Ma Barker gang



The top of page 17 has a one column heading: "'West West' gang Hunted" with subhead: "Mail Train Is Robbed of More Than $40,000" Karpis was member of the Ma Barker Gang, and was Public Enemy No. 1 at the time.

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After gangster's murder, New York City to end gang power...

NEW YORK TIMES, October 30, 1935  The front page has one column heads: "MAYOR ORDERS WAR TO END GANG POWER; CHIEFS ARE HUNTED" "Acts After Tie-Up With Police and Politicians Is Shown in Seized Papers" "Police Told To Use Force" and more (see). Nice to have in this famous venerable newspaper.

Complete in 44 pages, this is the "rag edition" printed on ve... See More  

Dutch Schultz assassination...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 28, 1935.

 

* Dutch Schultz assassination

* Jewish-American mobster

* Hunt for the killers in NYC



The top of the front page has one column heading: "SCHULTZ'S RECORDS OF RACKET DEALS CHECKED FOR CLUES" with subheads. (see)

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Beer Baron "Dutch" Schultz shot...

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, October 24, 1935

 

* Arthur Dutch Schultz Flegenheimer shot

* Early report as he was not officially dead yet



This 26 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "DUTCH SCHULTZ, FOUR AIDES ARE WOUNDED" and "Underworld Attempts To Wipe Out Gang"



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Bootlegger Dutch Schultz indicted.... Jewish persecution...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 10, 1935



* Dutch Schultz - Arthur Simon Flegenheimer

* New York City bootlegger - racketeer - gangster

* Jewish Holocaust - Jews persecution in Germany



The front page has a one column heading: "SCHULTZ INDICTED ON 11 NEW COUNTS" with subheads. (see) First report coverage on famous New York City gangster Dutch Schultz's indictment for income tax eva... See More  

Anna Sage and Dillinger's demise...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 29, 1935



* re. John Dillinger's assassination

* Anna Sage - Ana Cumpănaș

* "Woman in Red" $$ reward



The top of page 10 has a one column heading: "TIP ON DILLINGER HALTS DEPORTATION" with subheads that include: "'Woman in Red' Says Purvis Promised to Have Alien Proceedings Dropped" and more. (see)

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Oxford, Mississippi Negro lynching...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 19, 1935.



* Ellwood Higginbotham Negro lynching

* Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi



Page 21 has small one column headings: "MOB LYNCHES NEGRO" "Mississippi Prisoner Seized as Jury Debates Murder Case" First report coverage on the lynching of Ellwood Higginbotham at Oxford, Mississippi.

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Al 'Scarface' Capone & gang beer taxes...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 31, 1935



* Al 'Scarface' Capone and crime syndicate

* Taxes on barrels of beer bootlegged



The front page has a one column heading: "$120,000 TAX LEVIED ON CAPONE AND GANG" with subheads. (see) Coverage on the attempt of the government to collect tax money on barrels of beer that was bootlegged when Capone was in power. He was currently in jail f... See More  

Will Rogers & Wiley Post death in 1935...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Massachusetts, August 23, 1935 



* Will Rogers

* Wiley Post 

* Airplane crash - funerals 



This 30 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page that include: "Millions of Americans Bow In Silent Farewell as Post And Rogers Rites Are Held" and more. (see)



Other news of the day throughout. Light browning, otherwise good.



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