Public Enemies_ America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI - Bryan Burrough [324]
Slick, Betty
Slick, Tom
Smith, Chester
Smith, Douglas O.
Smith, Edward
Smith, Frank
Smith, Zane
Sopsic, Peter
South St. Paul shoot-out
Spark, Welton
Spear, M. C.
Spencer, Walter
Springfield Press
Starr, Henry
Steffen, Emil
Stege, John
Stephenson, R. L.
Steve, Anna
stock market crash of 1929
Stone, Harlan Fiske
Story, Frank
Stretch, Glen
Strong, Larry
Sullivan, Daniel P.
Sullivan, William
Sundance Kid
Suran, Ray
Surran, Carl
Suydam, Henry
Tambini, Louis “Bones”
Tamm, Ed
Ten Thousand Public Enemies (Cooper)
Tewksbury, Merle
Thomas, Grace
Thomas, Lowell
Thompson, Edwin R.
Thompson, Mary Walker
Thompson, Tommy
Thompson, William “Big Bill”
Tic, Arthur
Time
Toland, John
Tollett, Raymond
Tolson, Clyde
Touhy, Roger
Trainor, Walter
Travelers Insurance Company
Trent, Bill
True Detective
True Detective Adventures
Truman, Harry
Tyler, Ethel
Underhill, Wilber
arrest of
Unger, Robert
Union Station Massacre, The (Unger)
Untouchables (television show)
Urschel, Berenice
Urschel, Charles F.
Urschel kidnapping
debriefing of Urschel in
FBI and
hunt for Kelly in
Kelly and
ransom negotiations in
ransom paid in
Shannon raid and
Urschel released in
Utah, U.S.S.
Vande Houton, Albert
Vande Houton, George
Van Meter, Homer
background of
cosmetic surgery of
death of
in First National Bank robberies
gunshot wound of
in Little Bohemia episode
in Merchants Bank robbery
Nelson’s confrontation with
in St. Paul shoot-out
in Security National Bank robbery
Vetterli, Reed
Vidler, William
Viosca, Rene
Von Beulow, Count
Voss, Henry
Voss, Ruth LaPorte
Wagner, Howard
Wakelin, Joe
Walker, P. E.
Wallis, Michael
Walsh, Thomas
Walters, Tom
Wanatka, Emil
Wanatka, Emil, Jr.
Wanatka, Nan LaPorte
Warner Brothers
War on Crime
assessment of
end of
in FDR’s inaugural speech
final roundup in
Hollywood version of
in Hoover’s Senate testimony
Kansas City Massacre and
legacy of
origins of
public reaction to
public relations effort in
Roosevelt administration and
Warren payroll robbery
Washington Post
Wawrzyniak, Helen
Weatherford, Ed
Weaver, William
Webb, Walter Prescott
Welles, John R. “Jack”
West, Lottie
West, Mae
Westberry, Mrs. A. F.
Weyland, Grover
Wheeler, E. B.
White, George
White, James “Doc”
White, Thomas
White, Willie “Three-Fingered”
Whitson (FBI agent)
Wilcox, Mildred
Wiley, Ralph
Wilgus, Hobart
Williams, Joseph W.
Williams, Tobe
Wilson, Jimmy
Winchell, Walter
Winkler, Gus
Winstead, Charles
Bailey captured by
in Dillinger ambush
in Lake Weir shoot-out
Nelson’s demise and
Winters, Shelley
Wollard. A.
Woodbury, Willie
Woolverton, Howard
Worley, Ollie
Wynn, E. J.
Yeaman, John
Young, Daniel
Youngblood, Joel
Zappas, Gus
Zarkovich, Martin
Zarkovich, Mrs. Martin
Zetzer, John
Zieger, William
Ziegler, “Shotgun George”
Zwillman, Longy
a
For simplicity’s sake, it will be referred to as “FBI” throughout this book.
b
Nell Barrow said Clyde had later attempted to rob another Missouri bank by himself but failed. The bank had been closed for weeks.
c
Crime historians have long speculated that bribery was behind Dock Barker’s release. According to FBI files, it was. In 1934 an FBI agent interviewed Jack Glynn, a private detective in Leavenworth, Kansas. A local fixer who specialized in securing paroles for federal prisoners, Glynn admitted he had been approached by Freddie’s friend Jess Doyle, who wanted to know how much it would cost to get Dock Barker out of prison. They met at Leavenworth’s National Hotel. Glynn said it would cost between $150 and $300 to get Barker out of prison. Doyle gave him $200 and told him to try. Glynn visited Barker in prison, and on the way out asked a guard the best way to “spring” him. The guard suggested he contact a state senator named Pres Lester. Lester was an old Okie pol; as the senator for McAlester’s district, he had tremendous pull at the prison.
According to Glynn, Lester said $200 would get Barker paroled. Glynn deposited the money in a McAlester bank, payable