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KARPIS PLANE LANDS TODAY IN ST. PAULPublic Enemy Kidnaper Captured Yesterday in New OrleansTAKE PRECAUTIONSJ. Edgar Hoover, Head of G-Men, Personally Directed Raid I That Netted GangsterSt. Paul, May 2 (/P)-Sullcn,travel weary and shivering, Alvin Karpis, the outlaw, was brought back to St. Paul today to face trial on kidnaping charges.Department of justice agents I who trapped the nation’s most notorious gunman in New Orleans late yesterday returned him here in an overnight plane ride.Escorted personally by J. Edgar Hoover, department of jus-, tice head, and a squad of picked 1agents, Karpis was landed hereh at 8:47 a.m., slightly more than i 12 hours after the heavily armed party flew northward out of New 1 Orleans last night.The desperado, wearing thin I summer apparel in a temperature just above freezing, was hustled from the big liner to a heavily armed automobile, surrounded by machine' guns, and taken direct to the agents* headquarters in the federal building.Whether Karpis would be promptly arraigned on indictments charging him with the abduction of Edward G. /Bremer, I banker, and William Hamm, jr., brewery head, was not immediately determined.At Washington, the postoffice. inspection service said efforts wfty be made to try Karpis for the Garrettsville, Ohio, train robbery last November unless he is given a death sentence in an earlier *trial v
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Sat, May 02, 1936
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