| Women Behind The Men II |
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| Volney Davis and Edna"the Kissing Bandit" Murray. Edna escaped from prison where she was serving time for robbery when she joined Volney. It seems when they weren't in prison they were together. |
| Alice Diamond, his long suffering wife, was murdered two years after Legs. |
| Jack "Legs" Diamond, New York's playboy gangster, survived so many shootings he was known as the "Clay Pigeon" before being killed in an Albany rooming house. |
| Marion "Kiki" Roberts, his flashy girlfriend, whose career as a showgirl blossomed after Jack's death. |
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| Copyrighted by Linda Mattix 2004-06 |
| All photos from author's collection unless otherwise stated. |
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| John Ashley 1920's bandit king of the Everglades with his queen Laura Upthegrove. |
| Frances Flegenheimer was one of the few who mourned when her husband Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer was murdered in 1935. |
| Goldie Bates was arrested for supplying the silk stockings boyfriend Al Spencer and his gang used as masks in Oklahoma's last train robbery. |
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| Bandit "Queen" Vivian Chase had many underworld lovers, one of whom probably murdered her. |
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| Big Jim Colosimo's fixation with young singer Dale Winter so distracted him from business that henchman Johnny Torrio and Al Capone had him murdered three weeks after the wedding |
| Jean Delaney was with Dillinger gangster Tommy Carroll when he was killed by Waterloo, Iowa police. She was the sister of Alvin Karpis' girlfriend Delores Delaney. |
| Bonnie and Clyde hated Mary O'Dare and for love of her Ray Hamilton quit the Barrow Gang. Mary went to prison and Ray went to the electric chair. |
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| Photo courtesy of Debborah Reeves Moss, cousin of Blanche Barrow. |
| PEN PALS The men usually died in a blaze of gunfire but the women often paid the price of outlaw love within the drab confinement of prison walls. At least two famous gang gals are pictured here in this group photo taken at the Women's State Prison in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1937. Among these prison chums are Blanche Barrow {center, in white} and Edna "The Kissing Bandit" Murray {left end}. |