Evening star., 1934-04-01
BY CECIL DOUGLASS.

lie opinion has downed the
4 public enemy" in Chicago.
Checking today over its two
lists of public enemies"-the
first was issued in 1880 when crime
was rampant here and in other cities
"a Chicago crime commission state
ment said ''law enforcing authorities
really have got the upper hand" here
now.
1t credited aroused public indig-
nation and resulting campaigns by
police, Federal officers and authorities
of neighboring States for the good
work of driving to cover the once sin
lister combines of crime.
Death at the hands of gangland
enemies, police or from natural
grim ranks of the adversaries of the
underworld
Eight wiped Out"
While Fred Goetz, notorious brains
of the Fred Killer" Burke gang
never was included among the pub
lished public enemies" his machine
gun killing last week was typical of
the wiping out of eight from the vari-
Gus lists, including Jack zuta, Joe
Aiello, George Red" Barker, William
Three-Fingered Jack" White, Charles
''Ice Wagon" Connor, Ted Newberry,
James L. Quigley and Ernest Rossi.
Jack Klutas, college-bred kidnaper,
was slain by police seeking to arrest
him.
Three died from natural causes
Myles ODonnell, Frank McErlane and
Jim Genna. Willie Sharkey, Touhy
mobster. committed suicide in a ST.
Paul Jail.
Prisons engulfed IS of the most
notorious including AL Capone, first
to wear the brand of public enemy
No. l." who is still serving on an in
come tax conviction at Atlanta Fed
eral Penitentiary. The others and
penitentiaries where they were or are
incarcerated: Terry Druggen (Atlan-
tai, Willie Niemoth (Maryland, i,
Frankie Lake Leavenworth), Ralph
Capone (McNeil's Island FederaD, g.,
Jack Quick Ueavenworth) James
Fur" Sammons michigan City,
1nd), Daniel McGeoghegan (Michi-
gan City, Ind), Edward Larue Oeav-
enworth), Basil Banghart and Roger
Touhy (both Joliet, Ill). Harry Pier
pont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark,
Walter DERRICK and Joseph Fox.
Burke, in Michigan prison now, was
not public enemy" here. though he
had close associations with several of
them Gus Winkler. his slain pal,
was also not named on the lists.
Two Are Doomed.
Pierpont and Makley have been
doomed to execution for the Staying
of Sheriff Jess Sarber at Lima, Ohio.
Clark was sentenced Monday to a life
prison term for the same crime. Fox
and DERRICK are back in Michigan City
Prison after participating in the break
from that institution last year In
which 10 men escaped.
Only last week frankie Diamond,
Capone's brother -in-law and former
bodyguard, received a Jail term, thus
assessed his due to the law in the
same fashion as were James Belcastro.
king Of the bombers":: Sam Golf
Bag" Hunt, Anthony Red" Kissane
and Charles Fischetti. Most of these
and several who are at liberty pend
ing appeals were convicted under the
Illinois vagrancy statute or on gum
toting charges Make Eisen. the
fish racket car. has also been con-
victed for vagrancy. W. A. Henrick-
sen, the highway policeman, who
turned Touhy gangster, is in the Gus
tody of the States attorney after
helping convict his pals of the John
Factor kidnapping.
Heading the list of still "at large"
Is John Dillinger, named No. on the
police public enemy list of last De-
cember-the final word in public
enemies thus far In the same cate
cory is John Hamilton, his former
lieutenant, who Dillinger said is
dead; Murray Humphreys, reputed
Capone crown prince; Tommy Touhy,
tubercular brother of Roger, and Lud-
wig Dutch Louis" Schmidt, wanted
here and in North Carolina for
bank robbery.
Among the Fugitives.
Also listed as fugitives are Sam
Little New York" Campagna, Joseph
"Peppy" Genaro, Danny Stanton. who
successfully fought in Illinois courts
a bid by Wisconsin for his appear
ance on a bank robbery charge, and
Vincent McErlane, as well as a score
of others whose names have almost
ceased to awaken memory of their
misdeeds. George Bugs Moran and
his one-time henchman, Leo Mon
goven, are among the few who have
successfully fought prosecution. Ed
ward Spike" O'Donnell is another.
In this group are also frankie Rio,
who spent some time with AL Capone
in a Pennsylvania prison but beat a
vagrancy rap here; Tony Accardo,
Claude Maddox. Bernard O'Donnell,
George Downs and Jack Barry. But
their influence has waned. and If they
are ION the loose" they have been
driven to cover, the commission as
serted.
Symptomatic of newer trend among
some of the one-time public enemies
Is the plea Of Ralph Capone when
he returned to Chicago a few weeks
ago for d chance to "go straight" He
said he has throllph with the racketS