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at el aan aah ata ee a ee ee al ~ -dhief of police, znseane of the kidnaping and slaying & jdt its ‘height ‘this erganuaation a deliv on. foe we Relive? Wagon. It . 7” The brewing company, arranged for ; . there- beaen: to Foci fie gttention of the middle west upon that clty early in 1925, + In that year Frank Brunskill wal His part in a. , fhe Rev. Knute 5 Birkeland, as charged by the Birkeland femily and upheld by # jury in thé Crim- “gal courts, was told in the first in- “ wtalment of this story. “he soon obtained @ Job an driver of In 1304 Jake Kunze, presizent ow assignments | included raids on some of the brewer's customers, to "whom, shortly before, he had been deliver Ing beer. In six years Brunakill became a detective, ~ : Mayor Thomas Van Lear, who: later wat to become the star de fense witness at Milwaukee for the gunman, Jack Davenport, and yirtu- ally obtained the acquittal of that habitual criminal in the case of the robbery of the Northwestern Na- tional bank of Milwaukee, made Brunskill chief of detectives. In 1923 Brunskill became chief of the entire force, holding the job untit Mayor George EF. Leach removed him in 1928. - . Brunskill was removed after the mayor obtained evidence proving that the policeman was habitually shielding criminals, In recent years » number of” Private citizens have filed com- plaints against Brunskill with the commission, but the policeman who now is captain of the Minneapolis north side station never has been asked to defend himself. One of the latest charges bears repeating. In the information sent to the commisson it wae stated that on May 11, 1932, police learned that an automobile belleved to have been used by bandits who had, a month earlier, held up the North American branch of the Northwest National bank of Minneapovs, tak- ing « large sum of cash and securi- ties, war discovered in a3 garage at 245 South Pilisbury avenue in Minneapolis. Land Garage attendants were in the act of armor plating the car when De- tectlvea Joseph Lehmeyer and &r ctives Joke Ee yer YG zat thur Weibe arrived to seize lt The two detectives did not take the car, but reported back to Mayor William A. Anderson that Captain Brun- ski] walked into the garage as they wer about to drive it away and told fhem “to leave the car alone.” Thr - automoblie, at that time, was wai io be owned by one John J. Brennan. Later {t was learned that Brennan was the alias used by Har- aey Bailey, leader of the Urachel kidnaping gang and a bank robber and killer. He now is serving time by politictans Berman, brother of Barney, the me aa a@igt; Roy Rogera, George Somers, Benny Rinder, Mose Barnett, Flippy - _ Rhare, Paul “Eriah* GottBeb, and - £5 7st Jafia brothers, Rarry, Witten, | a@eoually handied millions of doliara - taken from Wlicit enterprises, - As in other citita where large | gunman shot abd killed John Wiha Ver, a petty dootléggdr, in The | @nce of Id wititerses tn a © ‘41 Hennepin avenue. him with first degree murder, The .. matter dragged for one month while * - Davenport remained in fall Then The grand jury voted a no bill after Seven men from Minneapolis and 5¢. Paul in a courtroom in Oklahoma City kidnaping of Charles F. hearing several witnessea fntro- duced by County Attorney Olson, The widow of Winkler wad vialted by Davenport only a few days after the shooting. At thet ume, ahe says, Davenport told her: “I've pald 340,000 In the right place and I'm not golng to be prosecuted. At the tame time Dd Uke to have you keep same time Dd ike to hey seep your mouth shut to keep as much heat off meas possible, I'll bargala with you. I will give you $7,500, the ataie civil damage maximum in ease of death, if you'll keep your trap shut.” The widow agreed. Davenport then handed her $3,500, telling her he would pay the remainder ister. Te never has been paid, according to Mrs. Winkler. The most concrete evidence con- cerning the activities of the alcohol and vice syndicate was obtalned by rschel, wealthy oil man. In the front row: (5) Isadore (Kid Cana} Blrmantotdl A week later, however, detectives raided a place where Alihen hed been living at one time. There they | found ledgers, account books, some correspondence, eome old freight and truck waybl!ls and other ree ords, These, although merely In- dices of the actual accounts, dis- closed that Althen kept separate sialements for each of the gang big shots. Code murmbers were used in ihe indices, The indices also showed " quietus accounts,” “McCoy accounts,” in which records ef the fine bratids of uncut liquors demanded by cer- taln patrons were kept; a prepi and loss statement for the entire organ ization, and separate accountines for each of a dozen liquor neeticng plants, for gambling hous: and for vice resorts. Some of the information lackinz ry Hf a Minneapolis riot scene, one of. several dicplays of Violence in ooh: d the striker ( Berney Berman, 2} Sam Korberg! 8) Pete Miller, (7) Pete Arnold. out of the car and shouting mea while, “Damn you, Guilford, we> got you now.” ‘Then the ote away. Critically wounded in the abs men, Guilford jotied down thei cense number of the gang car an: drove to a hospital. Ag an Individual Howard Gultter’ hed no importance. He had be: attacking the city and county ott: tials, however, charging them wit: accepting graft and protecting the open operations of the syndicate. These attacks had been growing in intensity aver m period of several months, and Guilford had received many warnings that unless he qui‘ printing stories about the unde: wisi be would be slain. nee A Se awaiting call as the feders © ve Ps ae