Ohio Heists by Jane Ann Turzillo

Ohio Heists by Jane Ann Turzillo

Author:Jane Ann Turzillo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00


Alvin “Creepy” Karpis. Cleveland Press Collection, CSU, Michael Schwartz Library.

Crime ran in Karpis’s veins. In The Alvin Karpis Story, written with Bill Trent, Karpis wrote that he considered crime his job. In his own words: “My profession was robbing banks, knocking off payrolls and kidnapping rich men. I was good at it.” He added, “My work became a profession because that’s how I approached it.” He claimed he could have been a top lawyer or successful businessman. In his opinion, he could have held a high-up job in law enforcement. “I outthought, outwitted, and just plain defeated enough cops and G-men in my time to recognize that I was more knowledgeable about crime than any of them, including the number-one guy, J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

Ohio was a favorite haunt for Karpis. He and Campbell often holed up in a bordello owned by Edith Barry in Toledo. He also liked Cleveland and often visited the vice clubs there. Cleveland police commissioner Eliot Ness swore he would capture Karpis, but the gangster was always one step ahead.

In The Barker-Karpis Gang: An American Crime Family, W.D. Smith wrote that Karpis met Freddie Hunter at the Harvard Club in Cleveland. A Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter called Hunter a small, skinny man with stooped shoulders. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Hunter, a gambler from Warren, proved valuable to Karpis when he tipped him off to a big payroll shipment due by train into the Warren post office bound for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Plant.



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