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notorious member of the Ma Barker gang Alvin was born in Montreal to honest hardworking im migrants from Lithuania When their only son was four years old the Karpowiczs made their way to Topeka Kansas where Mr Karpowicz workedat the Santa Fe railroad While other children may taken to schoolwork or athletics Alvin walked over that thin line to juvenile delinquency He ran errands for small time punks and prostitutes For the next eight years of his life Alvin intermittently worked at some cover job and stole everything he could get his hands on In 1926 when he was 18 police surprised him inside warehouse He received sentence of from five to 10 years in the reformatory in Hutchinson Kansas After serving three years in Hutchinson Karpis together with three other convicts sawed through some iron bars and escaped Karpis and prison buddy Lawrence Devol stole clothing guns and cars They didnt stop until they hit Devols home state of Oklahoma Small robberies kept the two men solvent but as escaped cons the increased pressure to keep moving was always with them Leaving Oklahoma they moved on to Chicago where Devol was spotted and picked up He was returned to prison Without his sidekick Karpis kept low profile until year later when Devol was released Robbed clothing store Unbelievably the first job the two friends pulled was clothing store robber Devol had promised his buddies back in prison that he would treat them all to new clothing as soon as he got out of prison Keeping to his word he and Karpis sorted the clothing as to size and cpl or They then mailed individual parcels to Lansing Prison All the cons received their new duds In 1930 Karpis was picked up by the police in Kansas Ci ty and returned to Hutchinson to serve the balance of his sentence On May 1931 Karpis was released from prison In manner of speaking Karpis had graduated While serving the balance of his sentence he had been transferred to Lansing where he met more mature and hardened men Among them was Freddie Barker The two men had become fast friends and had made plans to get together once Freddie was released Freddie Barker looked up Alvin Karpis in Tulsa Oklahoma as soon as he gained his freedom Freddie was planning bank job This was more like it thought Alvin No more penny ante stores and warehouses As Willie Sut ton was to put it rob banks because thats where the money Is Alvin Freddie and two accomplices walked into bank in Mountain View Missouri and walked out with $7000 heepy Karpis had become successful bank robber No ale Alvin Karpis would be complete without the inclusion of Ma Barker the mother of the infamous Barker boys Ma was an overweight short woman who travelled from state to state as homemaker to her bank robbing sons and Alvin Karpis Throughout their relation ship Ma Barker always treated and no doubt loved Karpis the same as her natural sons Whatever the reason there was deep bond between Ma and Alvin Ma was simple woman The FBI always maintained that Ma was the brains behInd the gang plotting and planning daring robberies behind the scenes Karpis swore that Ma was simple woman who accepted her sons profession but had no con nection with actual bank robberies In the five years dur ing which the gang robbed at full steam Ma become folk heroine In April 1933 the gang decided to branch out into another lucrative activity kidnapping Their victim was to be William Hamm Jr the 38yearold millionaire presi dent of the Hamm Brewing Co On June 15 Hamm was picked up off the streets without incident and transported to secluded location As soon as he was kidnapped Hamm made the mental decision to cooperate with his abductors in every way He signed ransom notes and never gave his captors any trouble The whole thing went off without hitch Hamm was returned safely and the gang received cool $100000 ransom Throughout the reign of the KarpisBaker gang the director of the FBI Edgar Hoover himself something of folk hero was fit to be tied The gang was actually making the bureau look bad Hoover named Karpis as the most wanted fugitive in the entire US heat on the two men made their way to the Toledo area Alvin Karpis in later years The gang returned to robbing banks but the easy money of the Hamm kidnapping was hard to forget They decided to pull their second kidnapping This time the victim was to be Edward Bremer president of the Commercial State Bank of St Paul On Jan 19 1934 the gang shatched Bremer Things didnt go according to plan Bremer wasnt cooperative captive that Hamm had been He complained constantly and wouldnt sign the typed ransom notes until Doc Barker slugged him over the head with revolver Negotiations for the ransom money didnt go smoothly It took full 20 days until the gang was able to exchange Bremer for 3200000 Christmas of 1934 found the gang relaxrng in Florida Freddie and Ma had cottage at Lake Weir Karpis along with another hood Harry Cambell and their women joined Ma and Freddie Unknown to the gang Doc Barker had been picked up in Chicago Perhap through Doc or because of something found on his person the FBI learned of the Barker gangs location in Florida Secretly they sur rounded Mas cottage and opened fire few shots were returned and then nothing but silence Ma Barker and her son Freddie were dead The rest of the gang had not been in the cottage Karpis Cambell and the two women had moved out to find better fishing Karpis Cambell and their lady friends headed for Atlantic City There would be no rest for them there Cor nered in hotel the two men managed to get away but the two women were taken into custody Fugitives on the run need money to survive With the They successfully relieved the Youngstown Sheet and Tube plant in Warren Ohio of their payroll The heist net ted 572000 Heat on both men Pressure remained on Karpis to avoid detection as the most wanted man in the US Likewise the heat was on the FBI and particularly Edgar Hoover to apprehend this gang of robbers and killers who seemed to operate beyond the laws reach During the intensive manhunt Karpis and Hunter were vacationing with friends but the final scenario was draw ing to close Holed up in New Orleans in 85 degree heat Karpis left his apartment with Hunter to pick up box of strawberries Because of the heat he didnt wear jacket and so wasnt carryin his revolver This time FBI agents surrounded their car fore they had chance to move The two fugitives surrendered Hoover was there in person and always claimed that he was in the forefront of the ar rest Karpis swbre that Hoover hid until he was taken into custody and then appeared for publicity photos Whatever the actual facts an era had come to an end Karpis made deal and was charged with only one crime in return for leading guilty It was the Hamm kid napping He receiv sentence of life imprisonment On August 1936 Karpis was incarcerated in dreaded Alcatraz Three years later his old partner Doc Barker was killed while attempting to escape from the same in stitution Karpis was to stay in Alcatraz longer than any other prisoner 25 years In 1962 he was transferred to McNeil Island where he remained until January 1969 Whatever else the little bank robber was he was sur vivor Because he never gave up his citizenship Karpis was still Canadian Upon his release he was deported to his place of birth Montreal Canada After spending 33 years in prison Karpis became something of celebrity on the outside He proved to be lucid intelligent guest on TV talk shows Like ghost from the past he spoke of shootouts and robberies much as other people relate office scuttlebutt In 1971 he wrote book Public Enemy Number One in which he detbiled his most daring exploits 600 Op NEWS MCCLouo PROGRAM UNANNOUNCED moo FRIENDS ow tuesday tv THE REAL STORY CAROL BURNETT AND TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES Amorlcan Oratlltl 1973 Stare POLKA DOT DOOR Ward Ron Howard 523 TUE DAV NIGHT MOVIE Tho Solitary Man 1979 Stan Earl Moillman Carrla NEWS 630 llNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NBC news 10m MARY 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