Secret Partners
Subtitle: Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780873519045
Subjects: Police corruption; Crime, united states
Description: Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI--and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown.