Evening star., 1936-08-01

- and bank robber who had the
underworld distinction of ac-
- tive membership in the Dillin-
ger and the Karpis-Barker gangs at
the same time, invited death-and
got it.
Circumstances surrounding the ia
tai shooting of Green by Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents, who
set a trap for him on April 3, 1884.
at house In ST. Paul, were the sub
ject of an undercover inquiry re-
Gently by Secret Service agents.
The "ill-advised" Secret Service ac-
tivities apparently were prompted by
recurring rumors that G-men fired at
Green without knowing his identity,
that they only learned who he was
by questioning Green on his death
bed at the hospital, that Green was
moved down" mercilessly and with
out warning and that he was q
minor hoodlum'' who deserved bet
ter treatment.
Well, let's look at the record.
With the cooperation of Director
Hoover of the F. B. l., have gone
thoroughly over the bureaus here
tofore confidential files on the Green
case and, I believe, have found the
ansWer-officially- the questions
which puzzled curious Secret Service
men.
Criminal Record Studied.
In the first place, study of the
criminal record of Edward Green,
alias Eugene Green, T. j. Randall, j.
S. Makely, D. A. Stevens, George
Graham, Charles Ryan, Georg e
Green, Fred Rogge, Frederick Riley,
Fred Graham and Eugene Riley, 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 been served
in the House of Correction for grand
larceny, but he graduated into such
select gangland company as that rep
resented by Frank Nash, cause of the
Kansas City massacre; Verne Miller,
one of the massacre trigger men,;
Alvin Karpis and the Barker BROTH
ers, of kidnapping note, and, finally,
John Dillinger.
He robbed banks with the Karpis-
Ba .er gang and with the Dillinger
ctg.
lis home was the haven to which
embers of both gangs would flee in
me of trouble. the post Office"
rough which they received their
n !, the clearing house through
WI they kept in touch with one
anol.. the headquarters where
many -ate crimes were plotted
e. Fan of Arms.
At the time o. death he was Gus
todian of much of the heavy artillery
composing the arsenal of the Dillinger
mob.
A second point supplied by the rec
ords is that Hoovers men knew exactly
whom they were shooting when they
opened fire. They had set their trap
for Green and no one else.
A third point is that Green was shot
only as a final resort-as he answered
a command to halt by starting to run
and reaching for his hip pocket.
The fact that he lived for eight days
after the shooting and was conscious
until a few hours before his death
bellies reports that he was "riddled
with bullets"
Full details Of the events which led
up to the capture Of Green are dis
closed herewith, by permission of the
r. B. I.
1t will be recalled that OF March 81,
1884, Dillinger, Homer van Meter and
Evelyn Frechette shot their way out
Of a st. Paul apartment house. A
careful inquiry at this apartment pro-
vided G-men with the address of an
other apartment, on Marshall avenue,
which they Immediately investigated.
At the second apartment they
learned that Apartment 106 had been
occupied by man of suspicious habits
until the day of the Dillinger shoot
ing affray, and that the man had not
returned since that time HE do.