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I have attempted to piece together what became of some of the men Bailey worked with from time to time. With the name changes, it is a difficult job. |
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Nicholas Traynor, (Trainor) known as "Chaw Jimmie." Born around 1887, died after being shot in the Denver Mint robbery and was found on January 14, 1922. He is buried in Denver. Bailey contributed $500 for his funeral. |
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Harry "Slim" Jones was found dead near Red Wing, Minnesota on August 8, 1931. He had supposedly been killed by Charles Fitzgerald after a disagreement. Bailey said he thought it was Slim's mouth that got him shot. Slim was somewhat of a jokester and Harvey had warned him to keep his mouth shut or he would get a bullet between his eyes someday. |
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Tommy Holden, born in 1897, went on to be paroled in 1947. He killed his wife Lillie and her two brothers in 1949. Tommy was sent to the Illinois State prison and died there of a heart attack on December 18, 1953. |
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Francis Keating also earned his parole and made good with the rest of his life. He had been born in 1899, he died in St. Paul on July 25, 1978. Among his friends were bankers and policemen. |
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Frank Nash, born Febuary 6, 1887.
He had been killed on June 17, 1933 while he was in federal custody at the Kansas City Massacre. The massacre most certainly is the reason his name is remembered today. Frank is buried at Paragould, Oklahoma. |
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George Barnes, ("Machine Gun" Kelly.) He remained at Alcatraz, until his transfer to Leavenworth where he died of a heart attack on July 18, 1954. Kelly is remembered mostly because of the association with the name G-Man and the FBI.
Kelly actually never called them this and it is obvious the FBI wanted the nickname, but didn't want to appear vain. So they pinned it on Kelly as coining the phrase...and there it stayed. |
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Alvin Johnston, as of now his real idenity is uncertain. But he supposedly died in a Michigan prison in the 1930's. (Possibly Fred Burke.) |
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Verne Miller was found dead in a death near Detroit on November 29, 1933. It was obviously a gangland style killing and rumored the Zwillman mob did the hit.
But he wasn't killed because of the bungled Kansas City Massacre. |
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Wilbur Underhill was fatally wounded in a gun battle in Shawnee, Oklahoma on December 30, 1933 while on his honeymoon with his wife Hazel Hudson. His partner Ralph Roe was also captured and his girlfriend Eva Nichols fatally wounded.
Underhill died on January 6, 1934 at the McAlester prison.
Ralph Roe was later sent to Alcatraz and presumedly drowned in a 1937 escape attempt. |
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"Big" Bob Brady, a three-time prison escapee. After his recapture, he escaped the Kansas State Prison again with six others on January 19, 1934. A few days later on the 22nd, he was cornered and killed by a posse at Paola, Kansas. |
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Alvin Karpis, who later found his own fame, was released from McNeil Island in 1969. He was quickly deported to his native country Canada and co-authored two books about his life.
He died in Spain on August 26, 1979 by an accidently over-dose.
It is said that all his years in prison made him a humble man. |
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Fred Barker, a member of the Barker-Karpis gang, died in a shootout with the FBI on January 16, 1935 at Lake Weir in Florida. Killed with him was his mother Arrie "Ma" Barker.
The FBI had to think fast. With killing an old woman, they needed to justify this. Thus the story of "Ma" Barker, who trained her brood to be criminals and masterminded their robberies.
Harvey Bailey said the woman couldn't plan breakfast |
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Fred "Killer" Burke, a suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, ended up in the Michgan State Prison and basically lived a life of luxury behind the walls so it's told. He had amassed enough wealth to buy what he needed. It however couldn't buy him longevity. Fred died in prison around 1940 of a heart attack and is buried there. |
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Jim Clark, was later sent to Leavenworth, then to Alcatraz, back to Leavenworth, then once again to Alcatraz. He was probably the only prisoner ever transferred from "The Rock" for being a nusiance.
He earned his parole in 1969, married his dead brother's wife Hazel. Later he was employed as a parking operator for a bank. When he died on June 9, 1974, three of his pallbearers were bankers. |
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Ed Davis, born Edwin Seborn Davis in 1900, started out a petty crook and ended up robbing banks with the dean of bank robbers. Ed ended up Folsom Prison in 1934. In September of 1937, he attemtped to escape with seven other prisoners. Four of the convicts were killed along with 3 guards.
Ed Davis died in the San Quentin gas chambers on December 16, 1938. |
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Gus Winkeler, supposedly a favorite motto of his was "Take care of Winkeler first." A suspect in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, he liked to play both sides of the law. Gus turned over bonds from the Lincoln, Nebraska bank robbery to the so-called secret six, a Committee looking into ways to bust Capone's group. He had cut a deal with them to avoid prosecution over the robbery, even though it was doubtful he had been involved anyway.
He was gun downed outside a beer plant on Roscoe Street in Chicago. Winkeler was hit with 72 pellets. |
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