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KARPIS PLANErrONTINITED FROM PAI.K ONE)* * ^ —♦- (Mr «- * * -»♦*** ^ -- 41 • lt;... - *“tips” were received from personsst (*king the $7,000 price offered for Karpis’ arrest recently.Hoover said Fred Hunter, captured with Karpis, was being held in New Orleans, pending decision as to whether he will be tried on a mail robbery charge or a postal1 offense.Hoover personally supervised handling of the notorious outlaw on the trip as well as the capture.Six carloads of local federal agents provided the escort.From time to time several others of his gang have been sentalong to federal prisons.The prisoner wore a summer suit and a straw hat apparel not in keeping with the blustery weather which found the temperature hovering just a few degrees’, above the freezing mark.Karpis either had been in the air or shackled inside the plane for more than 12 hours. He walked unsteadily to the automobile! which had been backed against the air liner inside the hangar.At the federal building the outlaw was hustled from the car at a brisk half trot with spectators getting scarcely a glimpse of him.
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Fayetteville Daily Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Sat, May 02, 1936
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