The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-10-23
EDDIE GREEN

|" man and bank robber, who
had the underworld distinc-
ton of active membership
in the Dillinger and the Karpis-
Barker gangs at the same time,
invited death-and got it.
Circumstances surrounding tn e
fatal shooting Of Green by federal
bureau of investigation agents, who
set a trap for him on April 8, 1884,
at a house in st. Paul, were the
subject Of an under-cover inquiry
recently by secret service agents.
The "ill-advised" secret service
activities apparently were prompted
by recurring rumors that Omen
fired at Green without knowing his
identity, that they only learned who
he was by questioning him on his
death-bed at the hospital, that
Green was moved down" merci-
lessly and without warning and that
he was a minor hoodlurn" who
deserved better treatment.
Well, let's look at the record.
With the cooperation of Director
Hoover of the F. b. l., I have gone
thoroughly over the bureaus here
tofore confidential files on the Green
case and, I believe, have found
the answer-officially-to the ques.
tons which puzzled curious secret
service men.
In the first place, a study of the
criminal record Of Edward Greer
alias Eugene Green, George
Graham, Charles Ryan, George
Green, Fred Royce, Frederick Ri
ley, Fred Graham and Eugene Ri
ley - fails to support the rumor
that he was just a bad boy who
became involved innocently with
big-time killers.
He started out as a small-timer-
his first sentence having beer
served in the house of correction
for grand larceny, but he graduated
into such select gangland COMPANY
as that represented by Frank Nash
cause of the Kansas City massacre
Verne Miller, one of the massacre
trigger men,; Alvin Karpis anc
the Barker brothers, Of kidnapping
note, and, finally, John Dillinger.
He robbed banks with the Karpis
Barker gang and with the Dillingel
gang.
His home was the haven to which
members of both gangs would ie,
in time Of trouble, the post office
through which they received thei
mail, the clearing house through
which they kept in touch with on,
another, the headquarters wher,
any desperate crimes wer,
plotted.
At the time Of his death he wa.
custodian of much of the heav,
artillery composing the arsenal o
the Dillinger mob.
A second point supplied by tn,
records is that Hoover's men knew
exactly whom they were shootin,
when they opened fire. They hat
set their trap for Green and no on,
else.
A third point Is that Green wa
shot only as a final resort-as h,
answered a command to halt b,
starting to run and reaching TO
his hip pocket.
The fact that he lived for eigh
days after the shooting and wa
conscious until a few hours befor
his death bellies reports that he wa
"riddled with bullets"
Full details of the events whic
led up to the capture Of Green ar
disclosed herewith, by permission
Of the F. B. I.
It will be recalled that on Marc
81, 1884, Dillinger, Homer Va
Meter and Evelyn Frechette sho
their way out of st. Paul apart
ment house. A careful inquiry a
this apartment provided Omen wit
the address of another apartment
on Marshall avenue, which they irr
mediately investigated.
At the second apartment the
learned that apartment 1O6 h a
been occupied by a man of su.
picious habits until the day of III
Dillinger shooting ARRAY, and tbs
the man had not returned sine
that time. His description tallie
with that of Van Meter. The mar
ager said the apartment had bee
rented two weeks before by q mi
d. A. Stevens" and that the latte
had turned the apartment over {
the man answering Van Meter
description.
The agents obtained permissio
to enter this apartment. The
found: a leather bag, a Thompso
machine gun stock that fitted
stockless gun abandoned by Va
Meter in his escape on March 81
large quantity of ammunition,
revolver holster, a pair of feel
glasses, a two-foot piece of dyns
mite fuse and several getaway
charts and road maps used In ban
robberies.
While the agents were In tn
apartment, two colored women ar
peared and announced they ha