Baby Face Nelson
“Baby Face” Nelson’s shredded body was discovered today, lying naked in a ditch near Niles, Illinois, after a deadly encounter with 2 FBI agents yesterday, November 27,1934. The FBI agents, Sam Cowley and Herman Hollis, were also tragically killed in the crossfire.
“Baby Face” Nelson, real name was Lester M. Gillis. He went by many other aliases such as George Nelson, Alex Gillis, and “Big George.” He grew up with the Chicago street gangs, which is where his gang members named him “Baby Face Nelson,” despite the fact that he hated it.
By the age of 14 he was stealing cars. In his teens he took part in stealing tires, running stills, bootlegging, and armed robbery. In 1922, he was committed to a boys home for auto theft. Two years later he was released on parole, but returned in 5 months for a similar charge. He meet Helen Wawzynak in 1928, and later married her. In January of 1931 he robbed a bank in Chicago, Illinois, and was sent to prison for one year to life.
He escaped and came to Sausalito, California. There he met John Paul Chase. Nelson worked with Chase as an armed guard for the truck used to transport illegal liquor. Together, they moved to Reno, Nevada, where Nelson had killed a person for being a witness to the United States mail fraud case.
In 1933 Nelson, and his new friends, Tommy Carrol and Eddie Green robbed banks in Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Most of the blame for these went to Dillanger and his gang. A year later Dillanger joined gangs with Nelson.
On March 4,1934, Nelson got in a car accident which was his fault. The other driver got out of his car and started to yell at Nelson, who pulled out his gun and shot the driver three times in the head, and then sped off. Two days later the Dillenger- Gillis gang robbed a bank in Sioux City, South Dakota. The very next day, he robbed another bank in Mason City, Iowa, killing one employee and leaving with $52,000.
On April 22,dozens of FBI agents surrounded the Little Bohemia lodge in Northern Wisconsin, where Nelson and his gang were staying. Each of the gang members escaped except for “Baby Face” Nelson, who stayed to shoot it out with the agents. The FBI, in trying to shoot Nelson, accidentally killed 1 innocent bystander and injured 2 others.
James “Whitey” Bulger was born on September 3, 1929. His life of crime began when he was fourteen years old. When he was fourteen he was arrested for larceny. Larceny is just a different word for stealing. Bulger had also joined the “Shamrocks” street gang by then. Not too long after he was arrested for theft, he got arrested for assault and armed robbery. The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center.
He took advantage of this and joined some of harry and homers accomplices and they netted about 50,000$ worth of dirty money by multiple robberies allowing him to put the escape plan in motion. Coincidentally, the day harry and homer managed to escape, john was arrested and incarcerated ay the lime, Ohio jail. This happened to be very close to harry and homers hideout so john was quickly broken out of jail by his accomplices. Right after their succsesfull prison break, the gang went off to chigago where they planned and organized one of the most deadly bank robbing gangs in the country. The gang went on a crime spree, robbing banks all over illonoius, Indiana and wesconson. After a while, they decided to move to Arizona due to the police searching all over the Midwest for them. They decided, before they left, to rob the first national bank of Gary, Indiana. This robbery did not end well, it resulted in the injury of his partner and john murdered a police officer during their escape. After arriving in Arizona, the gang was rounded up by police and all were assigned to different states for
During the life of baby face nelson he committed over four bank robberies and although there is no clear number of how many people Baby Face Nelson killed, he did kill 5 FBI agents during his life of crime. Nelson was sent to a boy’s home when he was thirteen for stealing and was released two years latter but sent to j...
At the age of sixteen, Clyde dropped out of school to work at Proctor and Gamble. Clyde’s crime streak started with helping his brother steal a small flock of turkeys and transporting them to Dallas to sell for Christmas money. Dallas officers saw the back seat full of live fowl, and pulled them over arresting them both. His brother claimed full responsibility , and they lat Clyde go since he was so small and innocent looking. Clyde soon mat up with a man named Frank Clause. Clyde soon quit his job at Proctor and gamble and began burglarizing small businesses in Dallas, Lufkin, and Hillsboro, Texas. Although Clyde was introduced into the gang by his brother, he soon became accepted and became the leader. Their crime spree started with stealing a couple of cars and burglarizing a few houses.
The Mayor’s wife was present and described Nelson as “good looking, hardly more than a boy” with “dark hair and was wearing a gray topcoat and brown felt hat, turned down brim” (Burrough, 2004, p102-103). On January 15, 1931 Gillis, now exclusively going by the name of George Nelson, was apprehended and charged for the robbery of the Itasca State Bank. Gillis was sentenced one year to life in the Illinois State prison. He was later transported to State Penitentiary, Joliet Illinois, on July 17, 1931 to serve his one year to life prison term (Burrough, 2004,
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Capone was imprisoned in Eastern Penitentiary, where he stayed until March 16, 1930. Not too long after he was liberated for good conduct, but placed on the America's “Most Wanted” list. In 1931 Capone was accused of tax avoidance. He was found guilty and was sentenced to 11 years of prison. In 1934 Capone was transferred from the prison he was in, in Atlanta, to one of the most dangerous prisons in America -Alcatraz- located in San Francisco, California. Capone’s sentence was soon reduced to 6 ½ years, due to good conduct. Capone was released but still couldn’t return to his life of being mobster. He was growing old and was suffering from Syphilis. He became bewildered and unstable. After he was released he retired to a mansion near Miami, Palm Island Palace. Capone died on January 25, 1947 of cardiac arrest at the young age of 48 years old (“Al
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