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6 Tamm to Hoover, Sept. 24, 1934, KCM, #2596.
7 Tamm to Hoover, Sept. 24, 1934, KCM #2659.
8 Tamm to Hoover, Sept. 25, 1934, KCM #2617.
9 Harvey to Hoover, Sept. 26, 1934, KCM #2568.
10 Chicago Tribune, Oct. 16, 1935.
11 Chase statement, Jodil #5488, p. 9.
12 Negri statement, Jodil #5271. Quotes taken from Negri article, True Detective magazine, July 1941.
13 Tamm, memo to file, October 12, 1934, Jodil #4207.
14 Hoover to Purvis, Sept. 13, 1934. Purvis personnel file, #291.
15 Hoover to Tamm, 7:35 P.M., Oct. 21, 1934, KCM #2854.
16 Hoover to Tamm, 1:00 P.M., Oct. 22, 1934, KCM #2701.
17 Hoover to Tamm, 5:45 P.M., Oct. 22, 1934, KCM #2903.
18 Newby memo, Oct. 24, 1934, KCM #2946.
19 Negri article, July 1941.
20 Chase statement, Jodil #5488.
21 Doris Lockerman article, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 17, 1935.
22 Tamm to Hoover, Jodil #4601.
23 Chicago report, Jodil #5813.
24 Hoover memo to file, Nov. 27, 1934, Jodil #4610.
25 Hoover memo to file, Nov. 27, 1934, Jodil #4611.
26 Chicago American, November 28, 1934.
27 Hoover memo to file, Nov. 28, 1934, Jodil #4665.
28 Chicago American, December 5, 1934.
18: THE LAST MAN STANDING
1 Tolson to Hoover, Dec. 4, 1934, BKF #3546.
2 Years later, Karpis clearly remembered this episode and the name “Kingman” (Karpis transcripts, tape 20, page 135). Both his instincts and his memory proved excellent. A confidential report on Kingman’s trip to Havana is included in FBI files, BKF #3621.
3 Karpis transcripts, tape 20, p. 149.
4 Statements from all agents involved at BKF #4198.
5 BKF #3807.
6 BKF #3743.
7 BKF #3771.
8 “Barker’s Cook Remembers Day,” The Belleview (Fla.) Leader, Jan. 16, 1980; Ocala Evening Star, Jan. 16, 17, 1935; Toronto Star, Oct. 11, 1986.
9 New York Evening Journal magazine, March 3, 1935.
19: PAS DE DEUX
1 Cleveland report, Sept. 5, 1936, BKF #12794.
2 Richard Gid Powers, G-Men: Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture, Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
3 Harper’s, November 1934.
4 Tamm to Hoover, Aug. 1, 1935, BKF #6886.
5 Little Rock report, Oct. 17, 1935, BKF #7721.
6 Tamm to Hoover, Feb. 4, 1936, BKF #9460.
7 Connelley to Brantley, Feb. 17, 1936, BKF #9581.
8 Nathan to Hoover, March 28, 1936, BKF #10245.
9 P. E. Foxworth to Hoover, March 28, 1936, BKF #10244.
10 Connelley to Hoover, March 30, 1936, BKF #10255.
11 Gentry, p. 182.
12 Ibid., pp. 184-87.
13 Tamm to Hoover, April 26, 1936, BKF #11004.
14 Fletcher to Connelley, April 25, 1936, BKF #11011.
15 Tolson to Hoover, April 27, 1936, BKF #11006X.
16 Cincinnati report, May 18, 1936, BKF #1165.
17 Hoover gave his version of events in a phone call to headquarters the next morning. T. D. Quinn, memo to file, May 2, 1936, BKF #11099.
18 New York Evening Journal, May 2, 1936.
19 Chicago American, May 2, 1936.
20 Karpis, p. 230.
21 Ibid., p. 236. This anecdote is confirmed by a contemporary news account.
EPILOGUE
1 Potter, p. 4.
2 Cited in Powers, p. 114.
3 Sandusky Register, December 11, 1993.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alix, Ernest Kahlar. Ransom Kidnapping in America, 1874-1974: The Creation of a Capital Crime.
Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University, 1978.
Barnes, Bruce. Machine Gun Kelly: To Right a Wrong. Perris, Calif.: Tipper, 1991. (Biography by
Kelly’s son. Excellent material on Kelly’s early years. Less reliable on his crimes.)
Callahan, Clyde C., and Byron B. Jones. Heritage of an Outlaw—the Story of Frank Nash. Hobart,
Okla.: Schoonmaker, 1979.
Clayton, Merle. Union Station Massacre. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. (Unreliable, but useful
for Agent Joe Lackey’s recitation of events leading to the massacre.)
Congdon, Don. The ’30s: A Time to Remember. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
Cook, Fred J. The FBI Nobody Knows. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
Cooper, Courtney Ryley. Ten Thousand Public Enemies. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.
———. Here’s to Crime. Boston: Little Brown, 1937.
Corey, Herbert. Farewell, Mr. Gangster! New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1936.
Cromie, Robert, and Joseph Pinkston. Dillinger: A