| Show YOUNG LEADER OF BANDITS IS HANGED AFTER AFTERliFE AFTERLIFE liFE OF CRIME Known As Candy Kid id Bids World Farewell KILLED OLD GUARD C Gang Got Got Million But Learned Crime Doesn't Pay I IDA DA BALTIMORE Md lid Aug 13 13 13 By Dy The Tha Associated Press Press- Press I Richard Rocso Rte o lead lead- leader er Cr at ata of a b bandit gang pan gan that set set itself a 0 goal coal of a billion dollars loot died died on the gallows pillows shortly after atter t midnight this morning In the penitentiary where h hd he slew a gurd In in escaping a year and a 0 ahalt halt half ago The Tho end came quickly for the youthful criminal who led his I followers to robber robbery robbery- of ot nearly of the fabulous sum I they sought At midnight he ie said I wish to say lY goodbye the tho best I could wish wish anybody At 12 1201 1208 0 8 o'clock eastern stand stand- standard standard standard ard time his body bolly plunged through the gallows trap of the Maryland Marland penitentiary At 1222 14 If minutes later later- he was pronounced dead Less Lees than n 20 minutes had llad elapsed after he stepped onto the scaffold platform when when his his body In Its casket was wheeled out of at atthe the death chamber It was atI I claimed by relatives tOt for funeral sen at the tho home of ot his rather father Ru V Wat Whittemore more FAREWELLS 1 ID I SAID D The elder cider and Mrs Margaret Whittemore the slay slay- slayer's slayer's slayer's ers er's wife RIte Ite bade him farewell sev- sev sev several eral cral hours bours before betor the execution separated from him by a heavy tine mesh screen which encased the death cell Mrs Mra Whittemore was vaa weeping hysterically as she lot left the prison p-ison for Cor tho the last time but Whittemore appeared en and remained so to the end The youthful gangster after arter shaking hands with prison or oW officials I- I In llie llie ll ff dor dropped his last t from hili hi lips and walked walled steadily through the small door leading to the ee- ee exe execution cution platform 18 ir feet reet above the floor of ot the oblong Math chamber A taint smile was on his face Cace b but t left It when ho stood erect over tho the trap and ond made his brief statement In a clear voice olce CK IH HOOD PLACED The black hood was drawn over his head edd and his ls shrouded figure had dropped through the platform just two minutes after arter h he had appeared In the narrow doorway above the heads of ot tho the witnesses Ho died of et a broken neck and was pronounced dead by the tho three official attending physicians Whittemore sen inK a year 15 15 sentence for tor burglary fatally bet beat Robert flobert I H Holtman a year GO old 60 old guard with an Iron bar on n February 20 1925 1 25 and ond wa ed out ot or the hospital Rate gate ot of o the penitentiary Ho lie was hanged wIthin a few rew yards of at o tho the spot where the tho guard was sas as struck down CAREER C OF CHIME Although at outs with the th law from the tho age ot of o short trous trousers rs Ree fleese e Whittemore's crim crim- crim criminal inal mat career left him Mm cast In a potty petty role rola until at the tho ago ot Of 25 21 and with a noose danglIng n above his head hend he crowded Into the space pace ot of a few months most ot of the th highlights of ot a fiction bandits bandit's life lite He was a comparatively little known gunman with a II prison reputation for tor being hard when hen serving a term for tor burglary burg burglary lary laI he walked out ot of o Maryland penitentiary on February 20 1925 with the th keys of ot a mortally wounded guard Thirteen months later when a D New York pOlice night patrol picked him up as IlS a 0 I suspicious character after a chase at guns cuns points point from the th door or of ora ofa ofa a night club he ho was the active head of one ono of o the tho casts cast's most successful criminal organizations ot of recent years Whittemore went to the gallows for slaying the Robert guard guard Robert II tho Holtman-tho the first Important act for his brief spectacular career holtman lila bis skull crushed by an Iron bar died two days after Whittemore escaped d Whether Whittemore actually ly was guilty ot of other murders laid by police at athis athis athis his door or that of his hi gang may never be b known MANY n HAULS Baltimore New York Chicago Cleveland and ond Buffalo were In- In Included In Included eluded In the tho th Whittemore gangs gang's scope pt pE operations opera lons Many lucra lucrative tI tive e hauls were made mad from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Jewelry establishments The dollar million dollar crime trust so dubbed later by police because of the th fabulous goal coal act set and andre rl- rl ported nearly reached when the crime organization l was Wal shattered revealed Itself 11 as an almost en entirely supporting self crime unit when pOlice du dug Into Its secrets It had its own private fences for receiving stolen goods an and maintained its Ita own channels ot of otI I dIsposal rea a much hIgher profit on ltd its loot than i Is usually the ease caso ca a Tho The profits were ap apportioned portioned among anong the th gang memo mem mern- mern members bers bore thu the apportionment being made by Whittemore who per per- per superintended d Its opera opera- operations operations operations So successful had the gangs gang's system been that police at first t declined to mako make public the details of ot a confession ot of Anthony Paladino one on ot of Whit Whit- Whit henchmen on the th Continued on ou l la Two YOUNG SLAYER GOES TO DE DEATH A TH Front From FlOn Pago One grounds that that-It that It seta set a- a example r SOON BRT BREAKS RE JS VI Ui UP rapid The gangs gang's breakup was after Whittemore and two com com- companions com companions visited the he Chanted Chanton night nightclub nightclub dub club In Is the ho early l morning of March to 39 I last la t Ha Ito was trolled from the door by a roving pa patrol trot forced from his automobile se eral blocks away uway and anil taken en to 10 hen where his hll Identity was established The remainder were rounded up one of tho the gan gang by one largely through a 11 a police watch on Mrs airs frs Margaret Marearet Whitte Whitte- Whittemore Whittemore more the tho bandit chiefs chief's wife wite who was Thing lining 11 Ing with him In a 0 down downtown town hotel Paladino tipped Upped of oft oU the system system system tem In his confession and In- In Incriminated incriminated In Incriminated criminated besides Leon and Jacob Kraemer broth brothers Goldberg ers ors Milton Shuttles Shuffles and Baltimore Unkelbach as 08 the chief members of the tha Unkelbach the last to be gang Baltimore arrested arrested was In Baltimore search tor for him 1101 was wu being mado made nt Cleveland and ond might ha have e es- es escaped escaped es escaped had ho he not driven In Ills automobile from Baltimore to Now NewYork York to retrIeve personal belong belong- belongings belongings ings All the male gangsters re- re re received prison terms In tn New York 1 ARRESTED J Mrs Whittemore also oiso was ar Sr ar- ar arrested arrested rested In Now New York but her ban ban- bandit ban bandit dit husband effected her on an agreement with District Attorney Banton by admitting his part In thefts totaling ot thousands ot of dollars Whitte Whitte- Whittemore Whittemore more however refused to In- In incriminate In Incriminate criminate any other member of the gang After her release Mrs WhIttemore dedicated herself herselt to toan toan toan an attempt to save her husbands husband's life She appeared In Buffalo and sat silent In fn the courtroom as a Jury was discharged otter after falling to agree on guilt In connection with the slaying a of ot a bank messenger In a day day- daylight day daylight light holdup there She followed him back bock to Baltimore when New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state Itself having robbery Indictments indictment against the tho gang lead lead- leader leador loader er or whoso whose penalties would total years ears released him to Maryland Mary Mary- Maryland Maryland land where here States State's Attorney IL H R n OConnor O'Connor whose whoso youthfulness matched that of ot the tha prisoner promIsed IJ a perfect hanging case Whittemore was found guilty of first degree degres murder on May 21 bench Of L Later er both the tho supreme Baltimore and the Maryland Mar Mars land court of appeals appeal had denied Whit Whit- Whittemore Whittemore Whit temore a a new trial Governor Ritchie of Maryland reviewed the case Edgar Allan Poe Foe moras mora's mora mores more's counsel contended the evidence e Justified nothing more severe than a verdict of second degree murder Whittemore's defense defenso was that he struck the guard down in self defense during on an altercation and not cot for tor the purpose of ot escape Governor declined to interfere C GONE GONT The Tha slayings ot of Chicago Tommy an underworld character of o Chicago and Balti Balti- Baltimore Baltimore more who was wu found shot hot to death In North Arlington N C last February and of Simon L L Gilden of ot Baltimore believed a former member of the Whitte- Whitte Whittemore mora moro more gang In Now York last Jut Do- Do December De December cember were ere by police policeto policeto to or his followers Neither of the crimes however wu was ever fastened directly on the gang Whittemore admitted shoot shoot- shootIng shooting shooting ing Edward Spike Kenney at a Middle River roadhouse on the tho outskirts of Baltimore last Hal loween night Kenney recovered In a hospital with a police pollee guard around the tho building Whittemore plead poverty when arraigned arraigned In ht Baltimore What became of his reputed for for- fortune fortune for fortune tune In loot was never Edgar Allan Poe roe who was waa ap- ap appointed ap p appointed pointed by the court to defend him was WU IJ a former states attorney of Baltimore former attorney general of Baltimore and former president of the Baltimore Bar I association n |
