The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-22
EDDIE GREEN

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r 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 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 hoodlum" 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, 1 believe, have found
the answer-officially- the queS-
tons which puzzled curious secret
service men.
In the first place, a study of the
criminal record of Edward Green
alias Eugene Green, George
Graham, Charles Ryan, George
Green, Fred Rogge, Frederick Ri
ley, Fred Graham and Eugene Ri.
ley - fails to support the rumor
that he was just bad boy who
became involved innocently with
big-time killers.
He started out as a small-timer-
his fir st sentence having been
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 mem; Alvin Karpis and
the Barker brothers, of kidnapping
note, and, finally, John Dillinger.
He robbed banks with the Karpis.
Barker gang and with the Dillinger
gang.
His home was the haven to which
members of both gangs would flee
in time of trouble, the ''post office
through which they received their
mail, the clearing house through
which they kept in, touch with one
another, the headquarters where
m any desperate crimes wer
plotted.
At the time of his death he was
custodian of much of the heavy
artillery composing the arsenal Of
the Dillinger mob.
A second point supplied by the
records is that Hoover's 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 final resort-as he
answered a command to halt by
starting to run and reaching fol-
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"
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led up to the capture of Green are
disclosed herewith, by permission
of the F. B. I.
It will be recalled that on March
81, 1884, Dillinger, Homer Van
Meter and Evelyn Frechette shot
their way out of st. Paul apart.
ment house. A careful inquiry al
this apartment provided Omen with
the address of another apartment,
on Marshall avenue, which they i'm.
mediately investigated.
At the second apartment they
learned that apartment 106 h a d
been occupied by a man of sus.
picious habits until the day of the
Dillinger shooting affray, and that
the man had not returned since
that time. His description tailed
with that of Van Meter. The man
ager said the apartment had been
rented two weeks before by ''Mr.
D. A. Stevens" and that the latter
had turned the apartment over to
the man answering Van Meter S
description.
The agents obtained permission
to enter this apartment. They
found: leather bag, a Thompson
machine gun stock that fitted a
stockless gun abandoned by Van
Meter in his escape on March 81,
a large quantity of ammunition, a
revolver holster, a pair of field
glasses, a two-foot piece of dyna-
mite fuse and several getaway
charts and road maps used in bank
robberies.
While the agents were in the
apartment, two colored women APP
peared and announced thew had