Images of the Gangster Era
"Scarface" Al Capone, America's most notorious mobster. They could only get him for not paying his taxes.
The Charlie Birger gang, who fought the Shelton brothers for control of southern Illinois rackets.
The new problem of "auto bandits" prompted Denver police to design this "auto-bandit chaser in the early Twenties.
"Machine Gun" Kelly in FBI custody.
Oklahoma wanted poster for "Pretty Boy" Floyd
Female gangleader Vivian Chase made Bonnie Parker look like a piker.
Tucson police posing with captured Dillinger gang weapons.
Armed guards couldn't keep Dillinger in the "escape-proof" jail at Crown Point, Indiana.
John Dillinger posing at father's farm with Tommygun and the wooden pistol he used to escape from Crown Point jail.
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Barrow
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