Evening star., 1937-01-01
Crime Front Is Held by C.Men
After Relentless 1886 Warfare
Remnants of Big-Time Kid"np Rings
Smashed, and Bank Robbers, White
Si0Uers and Racketeers Dealt BIOms.

ceiving life sentences death sem
tences and the remainder terms aggre-
eating 2244 years In prison Five
kidnapers we're killed by officers in
gun battles, six were slain by UNDER
world enemies, three committed sui
eide. and two we're lvnched.
Bank Robberies Decline.
During the year the National Bill
resu OF Casualty d. Surety Under
writer's reduced bank robbery insurs nee
20 per cent in 35 States, explaining that
the bank robbery rate has dropped
markedly since the F. B. !. took over
protection OF national banks and all
others insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp.
Although May was an outsta nding
month in number of important cap
lures made-the big four ,Karpis,
Campbell, Robinson and Mahan) hav-
ing been grabbed in rapid succession
the bureau effected a number of nota-
BILE arrests during the year. with and
without gunplay. Here are few:
Charley Yanowsky. member OF the
Rope Ladder Gang" of freight cal
robbers. shot, but not seriously wound
ed, at Hoboken, N. j., on January 80
when he attempted to FIRE at agents
closing in on him. He is serving three
years in LewiSburg Penitentiary.
Eddie Bentz of the Bentz-Doll bank
robbing gang. which perpetrated one
of the biggest bank lootings on record
when it pulled the million dollar rob-
berry Of the Lincoln National Bank in
1930-seized in a dumb waiter shaft
in Brooklyn, N. Y, on March Is dur
ing a tear-gas siege on his apartment
hideout. tHe commented to Omen
Bank robbery amt the soft racket
it used to be.") He Is serving 20 years
in Alcatraz
Clarence Sparger and John Lang
don. Missouri bank rObbers-captured
April 81, 1896, at tourist camp near
Hickman Mills, Mo, after a gun battle
in which Sparger was wounded three
times and an F. B. l. agent was shot
in the leg. The pair received 25-year
Federal sentences and Lansdon got
~ yCdIS doultlOIFdl Ol OtdtC 6Go
Alvin Karpis, co-leader Of the Kar-
pis- Barker kidnap gang and author OF
letter threatening death on sight
to Director Hoover-captured without
gunf1re in New Orleans May by q
squad led in person by Hoover. He
pleaded guilty to the Hamm kidnap-
ing and Joined Arthur C'Doc'') Barker
and others of his gang serving life
terms on Alcatraz Island.
Harry Campbell, machine cunning
companion of Karpis in his gun battle
with police in Atlantic City-arrested
in Toledo, Ohio, May without gun.
fire by 4 raiding party led personally
by Hoover. He pleaded guilty to the
Bremen kidnapping and also went to
Alcatraz for life.
Capture Of Robinson.
Thomas H. Robinson, jr, 'lone-
wolf" kidnaper Of Mrs. Berry StOll
Louisville, Ky.-cs ptured at Glendale
Calf, May IL without gunfire. He
was sent to Atlanta PeniteAtiary for
life.
Mahan, an alias" leader in the kid
naping of 8-year-old George Weyer'
haeuser, at Tacoma, Wash, appre.
hended in San Francisco, May Z, be-
fore he had time to resist. He pleaded
guilty and was given two concurrent
6O-year sentences, to be served at Nc
Neil Island Penitentiary.
Reese Bailey, bank robber, shot and
slightly wounded in the legs when
he opened fire on F. B. I. inspector
and an agent who found him milking
COW en- q farm near Ghillie0the
Ohio. November Is. Pleading guilty