| Show Ends Flight I I Alvin Karpis Not a Shot Was Fired 4 MYSTERY GIRL GIRLIS GIRLIs IS I S GRILLED I IN N KARPIS ARR ARRESt St Public Enemy No 1 Flown to St. St Paul to Face Face- Court 1 By Associated Press NEW ORLEANS May 2 Federal bureau of investigation tion agents who captured Alvin Alvin Alyin Al- Al vin yin Karpis and two companions companions companions compan compan- ions here last night said today that a search of the apartment where Karpis resided a month with Ruth h had a d cl yielded plenty Weve Veve found plenty David W. W Magee head of the local federal bureau bu bu- reau declared as his men continued to question Ruth the pretty girl girlin in white who lived with Karpis as his wife wiCe and Fred Hunter who Is wanted for a mail robbery in Ohio Mageo Magee refused de details taUs Magee said he did not know the identity of Ruth but that her fin fingerprints fin fin- were being checked in inY Y Washington ashington Throughout the night the girl In her tier early twenties was grilled along with Hunter in the offices of the bureau Dureau of investigation on the third floor ioor of the Federal building while Karpis was taken by plane to St. St Paul LRuth Ruth and and Hunter were furnished cots ota and meals in tho of offices offices offices of- of of Magee Mageo and have not appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap outside of the ilie building bull ding Flying Prison Goes to St. St Paul ST. ST PAUL Minn May 2 2 Shackled hand and foot Alvin Kar- Kar Karis Karpis pis is public enemy No 1 was brought to St S1 Paul tod today In an air liner chartered by G men The stammering pasty pasty faced faced gunman gunman gun gun- man captured at New Orleans last night without a shot probably will willbe willbe willse be se tried for William Hamm Jr wealthy brewer Long delayed the big airplane slid into the airport at a. a m. m and roared directly into the e hangar Newsmen as well as spectators were barred Ten federal men commanded oy ny y J. J Edgar Hoover chief of tho the federal federal federal fed fed- eral bureau of investigation who made tho the arrest last night were aboard the plane Barely 16 hours after tho the cap cap- ture lure Karpis was returned to the city where allegedly ho he engineered two wo of the nations nation's most sensational those of Hamm Hamin and Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward G. G Bremer Under Heavy Guard He was loaded into one of five automobiles provided by local agents and nd placed in the back seat scat between two heavily armed opera- opera tives ives With two cars preceding and ind two following tho the cavalcade dashed to the federal dep department of justice offices At the department offices Karpis was vas to be subjected to immediate questioning concerning the Bremer abduction and the Hamm Ho He will be locked In the tho escape proof cell ceU at county jail once occupied occupied oc oc- oc- oc by Doc Barker Tommy Touhy Volney Davis Willie Willio Davis and others of the Barker gang Karpis is the last of the Barker- Barker Continued on Pare PaJe Two I Column Eight PLANE BEARS KARPIS NORTH Continued from Page One Karpis mob although his reee rece 1 I associate Harry Campbell still stills Is at at lar large e 1 J. J t I The Th plane chartered 24 2 hou houri before tl th the capture landed in 5 St St. StLouis Louis early today to refuel Tho glowering Karpis last lat of the maj major r public enemies on tho the G m men's mens mC n wanted list did not leave the ma na chine After Alter 47 7 minutes the plan plane took off ott again to place pace the Jo ln long sought desperado before the bar at of justice in the quickest possible time I- I Hoover who commanded the 20 federal agents w who o captured Ka pl had several choices as to the C ci cap captives lives tives ultimate disposition He PJ la Js' launder under indictment in West Vest Plains Plains' Mo for tor murder of a sheriff and in St. St Paul for the Hamm Ramm In the Hamm case several of ot hl hi his associates already have been convicted convicted con cor con con- and the tho governments government's cue cu against him there is considered airtight airs air tight f Hoover was jubilant at the neWt newest t y coup of his department The G men had got Machine Machine- Gun Kelly H Hit Har Harvey r vey Bailey Balley John Dillinger Baby Face Nelson Ma Barker and her hert i t f infamous sons sons some oms some dead and so some zoe alive and alive and they had got Karpis Karpi Through mysterious channels the G men learned Thursday that the theman theman I Iman man man they wanted who bad had been A phantom to them since January i 1 1935 when he shot hot his way out of ofa 1 a hotel at Atlantic City CIly was living 11 1 in an apartment house on Canal v 1 street In New Orleans the t. t Early Friday department of or justice e chartered a twin-motored twin T tran transport port plane at Newark N. 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J J Hoover who was in New York when the information was received flew j in it to Washington where several Jf 1 lieutenants joined him The plane then proceeded to New Orleans ar arriving arriving at- at riving only A short time before the 1 capture i j Meanwhile orders had gone gont to toi toy 4 G men near New Orleans and when 1 Hoover arrived 20 agents armed t f with sawed off shotguns pistols and submachine guns were assembled assembled assem- assem bled in tho the federal building i 3 Hoover gave each man an assignment assign assign- j ment They got into several cars l I j and the ap approached apartment fJ building from sever several l directions Each agent took up his post under cover but instantly available Less than an hour after the trap i iwas was set Karpis came strolling out oj and crossed the sidewalk toward his automobile In a a. flash G men surrounded sur aur- rounded him and pinned his arms arms armst to his sides Ides He couldn't have hav re re- re slated I j Other agents went to the Karpis 1 apartment and after a struggle arres arrested ed a handsome year old girl whose identity the agents still i iare I are concealing and Fred Hunter Hunt r A suspected bank robber 1 C. C Karpis and the girl had lived i in inthe inthe the Mr Ed I apartment as and Mrs Ed 4 vard ward pHara since April 10 Karpis had made at least two automobile trips since then Returning Re Re i turning from one he was accompanied accompanied of by Hunter Federal men believe be- be bee e 4 lieve he had gone to a distant city city i and with Hunter participated d in n a Aft ii holdup Federal agents suspected him of ot using New Orleans as A base for A number of robberies Kept Secret Federal agents kept secret the source of the information that led to Karpis' Karpis arrest but it was said ald authoritatively that a gossipy AUtomobile automobile AU- AU salesman Clarence Pu- Pu Pu-l Pu cheu known to his clients and friends as Duke had set afloat rumors that reached the tho G men I Rumors circulated that Karpis' Karpis woman tipped off the federal agents for the reward but these ikei r |
