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


These women, upon interrogation,
eventually admitted that the I'D. A.
Stevens" who had rented the apart
ment was really Eddie Green, for
whom they had worked at road
house.
They said Green and his para
mour had called at their house that
morning and asked them to 60 to
the Stevens" apartment on Mar
shall avenue and get suitcase, a
coat and some laundry. Their in
structions were to take these
articles to their home, where Green
would call for them later that day.
Several agents were planted" in
the colored women's home. They
were armed with rifles and auto
matte pistols - for they believed
they were to face desperate man,
an associate of Dillinger and Van
Meter. The latter pair had machine
gunned their way to freedom only
a few days before. The agents were
determined not to let another men,
Der of the gang escape.
One of the colored women was
instructed to open the door and
hand the bag to Green when he
appeared, then step aside. Three
agents were hidden at strategic
places on the first floor, where they
could watch developments through
curtained windows.
Just before 6 p. m. sedan pulled
to stop in front of the house.
There were a woman and man
in it, Green and his paramour.
Green began getting out of the
car almost before it stopped, ran up
to the front door of the house and
received the suitcase from the col
ored woman.
Then he turned quickly and
dashed back toward the car, the
motor of which had been left run
ming.
AS Green leaped down the front
steps, the agent in charge of the
squad commanded him to halt.
Instead of obeying this command,
the F. B. I. files show, Green quick
ened his pace and, startled by the
command, reached toward his
pocket as though to draw gun.
That instructive, menacing ges-
ture was a fatal one-it was the
signal for the agents to fire, or seek
safety and let another gangster es-
cape without so much as struggle.
Actually, that impulsive sweep of
Green's hand toward his gun pocket
was a futile move. He had left his
guns at homeland it proved to be
quite an arsenal, when Omen found
it later.
His woman companion was ar
rested and questioned. She had on
her 81, 155.
Green was found to have two
safety deposit boxes containing
$4,000 and $4,700, respectively.
Green, questioned at the hospital,
made the following admissions to
! F. B. 1. agents:
He had been downstairs in the
St. Paul apartment when Dillinger
and Van Meter made their sensa-
tional escape on March 81, 1884,
fleeing during the confusion.
He had arranged for DR.. Clayton
E. May, Minneapolis physician
(since convicted of harboring Dill
linger) to treat a bullet wound Dill
linger received in the apartment
house battle.
He had committed numerous bank
robberies in association with the
Karpis-Barker and Dillinger gangs.
He had participated two weeks be-
fore with Dillinger, Van Meter,
John Hamilton, "Baby Face" Mel
son and Tommy Carroll in the
$4,000 robbery of the First Ma
tional bank at Mason City, Iowa.
He was planning to rob bank
in Newton, Iowa, at the time he
was shot.
Part of his long criminal record
in the fingerprint division of the
F. B. I. follows:
AS GuSSllS IICCl, oil CotCo Ny
police, Milwaukee, Wis, August IL,
1916, charge, grand larceny; SEN
fenced to six months.
AS Frederick Riley, arrested by
police, Des Moines, Iowa, suspicion
of Swallowing; released to st. Paul
police, who also wanted him for
Swallowing and robbery; August
IL, 1922.
AS Eddie Green, received at State
reformatory, st. Cloud, Mimi, No
vember Is, 1922, under sentences
of forty and five years and trans
ferred to Minnesota State peniten-
tiary.
AS Eddie Green, paroled from
Minnesota State penitentiary, July
1, 1880.
AS Edward Green, arrested st.
Paul, Mimi, April 8, 1884 an d
charged with attempting murder of
F. B. /. agent.
This was the ''bad boy whose
death appears to have aroused the
synpathies of some critics of the
Omen.