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A. Awdc.son that Captafy Bean -akill walked into the garage as,they awere.wbout jo drive i away and Aol them “to leave the cur alone.” ‘Tere of desth, H you keep our trap abut” a - wo alee howsves, Ghatging Ther. wif ho state cil damage aaalmum In’ ScThe inBices sie sowed Squtetas “meccpling WON wal pictecting Th Sccp ek” + McCoy accom,” m <-apen G, cations “af “Mne apntticat. whith xecorix of the Ane brands” These attacks liad been growing | et-mocut Jiguors demanded hy. cer-. intensity ever a perlod of sever: ‘tain patrons were kept; @ profit and - #onths, and Guilford bad receiv: Tosox warnings that unless he ¢° ~—Faee automobile, at that time Wai “then handed her 55,500, telling her nied be f tez,” “4033 statement tor the-endine organ. suid 10 be owned by one John J. “Brennan, Later it was learned that ‘Brennan was the alias used by Har- vey Balley, leader of the Urachet ‘ddnaping gang and e benk robber Sand killer. He now 1s serving time in = federal penitentiary. When ~ Bailey was nabbed by federal agents Qa Kansas City in Auguet, 1932, two employés of the Northwest bank identified him as the leader of the gang which robbed their institution. Not even this story brought action ~ hy, the elvil service commission, ~! Federal agents, seeking kidnaping wangs and bands of bank robbers _‘who terrorized the middie west in 922 and 2834, began work in “The, ‘Twin Cities as the best points at which to pick up the trails of their uarries, heard -n to the decade of the twenties. Not only was Minne- snatie a hideout for visiting crimi- ais but it also was the home stamping ground for one of the largeat and best organized alcohol Fings in the country. ‘The ring was ‘operated by a syndicate of never teow th, a Ay pr meso Wim “saoujooq Tewucdo ‘OP SPATE IQS Ki Save Peounog 702 ou ‘mounsaae * M BMeUvOd.O 303 Yanw oy spit fone gees Ain MY 303 “pura ref aun Jou pinos sey wo.sg <a ww Pousner my pus ‘osaaoe ae: Hode> wos 3994 dur dng 1, “pes CUA “SSD Goer sem won dooxd wy “2e0uzaNy no Ply sI9UMO Asvaxvods eaters 20 sy Jew suemudee gnom dayy ona “GMS TNs Bem ay yy ‘WIIYas JO pts OUl de ‘hays ANOY-tnoj-AjUemy oO wig UWF pINOM ssuUCT.C om “ane: WO}UM Uy “JaP}SUOD O ou yee Pinon Gases you wy ven Dajrom any, SopYOd pue Aeydung he would pay the remainder Is Jt never has been paid, according sation, and separate accountings ‘to Mrs, Winkler. car ~ Yor each df & Gozen Iiquor producing ~ ‘The mort concrete evidence con- Plants, for gambling houses, end for cerning the activities of the alcohol Vice Tesorts. and vice syndicate was obtained by Some of the information lacking federal agents and county authori: ‘1m these records was supplied by ties in December, 2833, when Con- ..one of Althen's women, who told rad Althen, who once was a golf how he labored over his accounting. professional at the Minnepau course The woman, although bitter against at Minneapolis, was found slain, . “Althen’s slayers, was unable to give ‘Althen, who was an expert ac any help in the hunt for the actual .countant as well as @ golfer, was books, The searchers were perticu- the bookkeeper for the syndicate. “larly anxious to find the books, . He had been serving the ring since since much of the government's 18%, entering quarterly -state- - case against the syndicate members ments as concise and balanced a TThose of any | One week before his body was found the federal grand jury in Minneapolis had voted secret indict- ments against 38 of the better known hoodlums in ‘that city’s un- derworld. The ringleaders, their chief, lieutenants and Althen were al}named, although this informa. jon at that time had not been made bile. i os It was apparent, however, that deral men were anxious to seize sthen. The day after the indict- ents were returned they raided an artment house where he had been }ing. Finding agents at front and , Althen jumpeg, from » window d escaped. Althen went into hiding, His ends, according to police, sought m out and advised¢him to sur-” nder on the Indictment. They ranged to pick him up in @ car d take him to the United States strict attorney's office. Althen fell to the trap. ide joined “the boys,” who pro eded quickly to slug him into un- nsciousness and then drive to a nely road near South St. Paul. here evidently he regained con: housness as he was pitched into © ditch. His bullet riddled body hs found the next morning. It lay the right side with the left hand d as if to ward off a blow. \ circle of empty shells on the adside above the body clearly told wa machine gunner stood there d let fly a burst of 14 shots, all jt one of which struck Althen. The bdoks Althen kept have never 1» found. It is assumed that his lends who feared he might uawk" ff he got into hands of © federal investigators destroyed A a in ebediieh are ee .. ernment agents concluded they ha: depended upon finding them. ‘After months of searching, go ‘been destroyed about the time Al- then was slain. With the books gone the indictments were dropped, only ten of the 38 men named in the original true bills being brought into court. Most of these escaped prison, merely paying nominal fines. ‘The real strength of this organ- jzed gangland was first shown in "4927. It was demonstrated when a coupe containing two men drew alongside the car containing How- ara Guilford, publisher of the Sat- urday Press, a weekly newspaper of Minneapolis, at Lowry avenue and West Broadway. With Guilford was sitting his sister-in-law. One of the men within the coupe fired five shots at Guilford, leaning (Associated Press photo.) Howard Guilford, publisher of Saturday Press, who was wound- ed by gunmen in 1927. Seven years later ha was slain, \ printing stories about the uni: world “he would be slain. me The. Minneapolis newspape wiille reluctant to recognize Gu ford as a newspaper man, demand action upon this shooting, saying was an attempt to allence the {1 press. At first it seemed they mig get what they demanded, for Gu ford from his hospital bed identif Harry Jaffa and “Irish” Gott as his assailants, The two gunr: were selzed and jailed. Then th were identified by other witnes: No charges were placed -agair the men, however, and they w: not taken before the grand jury County Attorney Floyd Olson, Th when his recovery had become certainty, Gullford began to wa in his story, While yet conval ing he identified pictures of a n who was in a penitentiary as « of his attackers. Later he F Fippy Share and a gunman, J Gould, of Chicago, had done shooting. - "When he emerged irom the 3 Pital the charges against all Read: “A BOYCOT Saturn var The Wrec Recoré Since Apet. 1994 Communit Local 5M Br Bix Buman Lives; Milone of Dellary ta P> ‘Ten Thousand Jobs of Willing Workers; 5 ‘One Fics, und che City, Ite High Stand, ‘Taking the Governor's Advice to"Orsunite mands.” Taking Courage Frome the iearor! ‘the Laws Inertia, the Public's Indiference idly, Local 51% Bids Fair to Take Over MAYOR HOLDS « TO STRUTW! Ton half of the first page ¢ ene J. MON