Pretty Boy Floyd became the new public enemy number one after this man was killed in Chicago in 1934
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Baby Face Nelson - Wikipedia  Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908  November 27, 1934), known by the alias George ... $50,000 worth of jewelry. After the crime, a number of Chicago newspapers nicknamed the group "The Tape Bandits. ..... The next day the FBI announced that "Pretty Boy" Floyd was now Public Enemy No. 1. On October 22, 1934,...
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd - Criminal - Biography.com  Nov 2, 2015 ... Pretty Boy Floyd was an American bank robber who hated his ... Criminal (19041934) ... After being accused of taking part in the Kansas City Massacre, ... Floyd was born in Adairsville, Georgia, on February 3, 1904, one of ... After John Dillinger was caught and killed, Floyd became "Public Enemy No. 1...
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Melvin Purvis - Civil Servant - Biography.com  Dec 31, 2014 ... Heeding the call of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to set new ... "The Man Who Got Dillinger" ... Dillinger was deemed "Public Enemy No. 1 ... The agents killed one of the men in the parking lot and wounded the other two. ... brought to justice by Melvin Purvis was "Pretty Boy Floyd," a.k.a. Charles Arthur Floyd.
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Pretty Boy Floyd - Wikipedia  On July 23, 1934, following the death of John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd was named Public Enemy No. 1. On October 22, 1934, Floyd was shot in a corn field...
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John Dillinger - Wikipedia  John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster in the Depression-era United States. ... He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and met his end at the hands of police and .... in a cloth and had also carried a gun which, although it discharged, hit no one). .... Dillinger reportedly became despondent after Billie was arrested.
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North Side Gang - Wikipedia  The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American ... Like many other Chicago-based Prohibition gangs, the North Side Gang ... O'Banion and other members of the North Siders would be mentored by ... On January 12, 1925, Weiss, Bugs Moran, and Vincent Drucci, attempted to kill...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Public Enemies (3-Disc ...  ByTerence Allenon July 3, 2009 ... for Hoover was Purvis, who relentlessly pursued Dillinger until the fateful night outside the Biography Theater in Chicago.
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of St. Valentine's Day Massacre, including videos, ... Al "Scarface" Capone rose to power after a rival gang was in shambles as a result of ... offered his own opinion: "The only man who kills like that is Bugs Moran. ... in Chicago, it can also be said to have marked the beginning of his downfall.
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The Public Enemy - TCM.com  The Public Enemy (1931) follows the lives of two kids from the tenements of Chicago's South ... Bright and Glasmon based the scene on a real-life incident. ... brother in the film, was supposed to explode in fury with a hard sock to Cagney's jaw. ... and Glasmon, who adapted the screen story from their novel, Beer and Blood.
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Herman Hollis - Wikipedia  Herman Edward "Ed" Hollis (January 1903  November 27, 1934) was an American law ... One controversial account also implicates Hollis in the death of Pretty Boy ... Hollis began his service with the FBI almost immediately after finishing law .... Chicago; Shot Dead by Federal Men in Front of Movie Theatre". nytimes.com.
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"This Machine Kills Fascists" - US History Scene  For many, the name Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) conjures a very American, .... Around this time, Guthrie wrote a song idolizing bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd .... I ain't a communist necessarily, but I've been in the red all my life: Woody Guthrie ... Party saw political potential in folk music and turned to Woody and other folk...
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Sitting Bull killed by Indian police - Dec 15, 1890 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Sitting Bull killed by Indian police on Dec 15, 1890. ... Website Name ... the great Sioux chief and holy man Sitting Bull is killed by Indian police at the ... However, Sitting Bull's tactics were generally more defensive than .... Legendary singer James Brown, also known as the Godfather of Soul and the...
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Al Capone vs. George Moran: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre  Jan 14, 2014 ... The infamous Al Scarface Capone ruled with an iron fist, and at his ... By 1929, only one man posed any real threat to his monopoly on Chicago crime: George Moran, ... known this, but another man who looked a lot like MoranAlbert ... murder of seven rival gang members, but without any proof, Capone...
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Hymie Wiess - Northsiders (Chicago) Said to be the only man Al ...  See more about Al Capone, Chicago and To Be. ... of Al Capone. Earl Weiss served as boss of Chicago's Irish-Jewish gang in 1924, but his rein was short lived.
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Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd (Character) - IMDb  Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd (Character) from Public Enemies (2009). The content of this page was created by users. It has not been screened or verified by...
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June 1934 - John Dillinger  Home  Timeline June 1934. Oct 15 ... *Officially named Public Enemy No. 1. June 23 ... Harry Copeland sentenced to 25 years for the Greencastle bank job.
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd | Carnegie Public Library  The newspapers called him the "Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills". ... Charles Floyd always hated the nickname "Pretty-Boy". ... arrested in Hot Springs, Arkansas by FBI agents and was being transported via train through Kansas ... Richetti was shot but not killed and Floyd was killed a few days later in the area of the Beaver...
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Pretty Boy Floyd is killed by the FBI - Oct 22, 1934 - HISTORY.com  Charles Pretty Boy Floyd is shot by FBI agents in a cornfield in East ... A local prostitute gave Floyd the nickname Pretty Boy, which he hated. ... City, Floyd killed a federal agent during a raid and became a nationally known criminal figure.
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The notorious John Dillinger -- Chicago Tribune  Nov 14, 2013 ... In June 1934, Dillinger was named America's first Public Enemy ... Sage became known as the "Woman in Red" for her choice of ... From September 1933 until July 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, ... officer William O'Malley, 43, during a bank robbery in East Chicago, Indiana on Jan.
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THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE - Ghosts of the Prairie  It was here, on Valentine's Day 1929, that the most spectacular mob hit in gangland ... over operations to Capone, who was almost killed himself in September 1926. ... Day Massacre, the Beer Wars in Chicago & Al Capone, see Troy Taylor's Dead ... The St. Valentine's Day Massacre marked the end of any significant gang...
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Once known as the "Lord High Executioner" of Murder ... - Pinterest  Albert (Lord High Executioner)Anastasia Boss of the Mangano Crime Family(Would ... After this atrocity, New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker dubbed Coll Mad Dog and ... N Clark St, Chicago, murdered seven mob associates of the North Side Irish gang led by .... Not a gangster just a drug dealing killer that sank "the Don"!