The Alvin Karpis Story Part 3 And the FBI director’s fame is based on lies, according to Alvin “Old Creepy” Karpis, the last of the great gangsters of the 30sif E ] A if N — it wanes afer his eapture in New Orleans. Hoover said he personally made the arrest, but Karp says the director's deputies di the job themselves,sould fo. The FBI, as | sunpected, ad found the fd were waiching They sw the ais. ‘red Tas theres They let Grace leave and they he the house. # They Grace Goldstein woulda’ tlk (Oat the day before, Freddie went on, he'd no- tied four ye caring wees a apartment 0 {he floor above. The janitor sal they were Har ‘voter salesmen who were Keeping tbe apartment fr ome gir: The ory made sense bt I aid’ lie ‘The furnace man and the Harvester guys could kay have been fas Freddie ad 1 weat out fora drive. { wanted 10 take my cart a pags for servicing. Bt fist Thad ‘ome gans in the tonk that wanted to switch 10 Freddie's car. I made the swich oot at Lake Pontchanrin I kept ny 4 with me, however, and ‘we drove tack othe United Motors Garage in New ‘ean. eft my ca here and rede and took dow deve around town a sca “Tim not aure’” Pred id fcr afew minutes, “but Tak somebody's taling ws The car's go sayin Hs a aroon coupe Td Seen a coupe o Lake Pootcharrae, and it ‘TABLETS. You fl good wea! istlene ao, ‘Siiccamomamoursere as ate ta =7seen 10 we nw th thd een moo, “Ciclo doe what apps Ti Frode tep mang ight tra elle Hd been aru the block he coupe ad bee fog On, doped We rove tk Yo Preset itr ke mide of the serbon sad Conse sei wo st me smb: you among ihe twenty fictprze wine worth an even S100! Your husband can for supper. We dove othe grocery sore and Fed meat or Wa See Cone yoo {me along oo, of ours” =? ‘i wen in 1 wed in the car A DeSoto pale op Selon mde doe of fice A Moxy yas Pan a iting tte = . 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Fre ‘en clot oa Tthogh they mee fom a pool at and the voice at my wade “All ih, Kari Keep your has on he ster ing wheel toroed my Rea ant touche the bre of nan arco ‘le Seaton the ght faked rogh my ted tae gy eng te fi fed Press ception tthe man who'd ‘Se teak ae rare "Now wo men wee aig ve th Hod ofthe cart had et a oot oft Each wat ag 8 ‘techie gon my head Tre other ca couched inthe se, pce rawm,Nobndy faded isc ot the operon fad FBI wren al oer Out ofthe omer of my eye, w Fede sip piety ot be dave Noboy’ pail atta, He imae 10 the shewalt and dieppeared fom ONC Inthe meawine the ey Wh te ie wns Hikes SNS i t t | i I i ai f uf EHpatina sora. Sone eas New Healing Substance Shrinks Hemorrhoids, Checks Itch Pete stag etn Peron ee bee pote teefounda wales aloes at ecrmplabed wih, Liaiigeews artceeaeeh ieee A Merchant Of Small Pleasures TTha'show André Barde owner of one of Canada's finest ‘restaurants, describes himseY-A senstve French chef, M. Bardet suffered trough several years of dispensing hotdogs and club Sandwichesin Montreal before opening hs renowned (Chet Bardetin he city's east end. Read James Quis mouth-watering sory next weekin Weekend. 10- west genet Hoover: fearless lawman? ‘ting more excited about me by the second. "SOK, Kary” bes "get OO the caf and be ana cael were you put your bands” T sid out ofthe cara dod onthe street. There were voices calling from above te ood up and ‘thee or four guys leaning Of he Windows of the aparnent above Pred’. Stop that man o he sdewalk," one of them was hovering. One of the ngeats ote Sree Srned ter Freddie and trout hi beck 1 was bedi. More and move agents materi ize. The aly uy | did't woe was the man in the ett hat who ad been stig om the Bench. poet he wae’ an agent. He wast med. There ‘tere enough people wound. Everybody was caling ‘ut orer: The ssrction contradicted eachother “Keep thoxe hands in thea" a age si, “Hands down by your side,” another called, “Stand where you oe. Don't move.” “Sion the reming board: Hurry up. Move” {ued and faced 8 man with Thompson ma chine gm. He wore a Pal. Beach sand Pan- ‘mm fat and be looked cool and collie He ‘ered fo be in charge. The gun wae steady fa his thond; which was more than I could sn fo the 9 Sanding behind me with the ib He Kept tng tne the back ad the impression his hands were enbling ‘Kei, do you have a gun with you?” the man vith tbe machine gu asked calmly “All ih, Kap” be went 08; “Tan pag satty ont gum, Theres noon fr anyone Yo Bt “He snapped the safety and 1 asked hm about the ‘ny behind me with the eile “Please tl him to put hi safety on" said. “He's ale to Al me” The iy withthe sie heard what Haid and he ws Imader thn bl "Wai il we get you downtown, Karis” he sit “1 show you wha’ rang thing” “There was a huge crowd around ow. A coupe of dozen FDI agen dat leat 100 spectator. The ‘commotion was tei. But {could se hat some of ‘the men with the puns had tored ther steno something ese. They wer looking ove twa the omer of the bulig and they were waving hie "heard one ey shosting, “Weve got hin. We've st hn, I all clear cic "A couple of others shouted the same ting 1 turned my head inthe dvection they were looking Two met came ou fom behind the sparen ‘They'd apparently been wag inthe sheer ofthe ‘ings out of lt while the gay wth the ps tad bee leveling at rede and me “They tepan to val srors the nn and sidewalk toward the crowd. One was slight and tonde. The ‘ther was beavy-set with & dak complexion. They ‘wore sits with Be shia, Tey walked loner od would have kaon him. He wa. Handcut hie.” ‘als. on Karp" [Nobody inthe crowd of agents had brought han ‘als. The cool guy withthe machine gum Took off Uist and handed Ho another agents wh rappedDon Whitehead The FBI Sry, compiled fom fats FBL ls, and with «fore Sword by Hoover himself. The tory was tht at Hoover and his en approached, I seached fr 8 ‘eon the back seat Hoover opened the doo of the car and grabbed me. Al the same tine, another “suet named Conve reached nom the pasbenger ‘ean lb grated me ‘Over the years in prison, many people asked me shout my ames. Atorneys peer tnaor, cor ‘gessmen ~ they all wanted to know: Did Hoover ‘eal west me personaly? always answered, "Why dott you ask Mr. Hoo ver?" Bat now, thik the ine has come 10 Set the record salah “The FBI sory of my arestis woul false. Jost as fase as the one Hoover pt out in 1933 to the eft {hat I had sent hm anol enening 1 il i “How could Connelly have dived in though the passenger side ofthe car when Freddie was sting beside me "And the rie fn the-back sat. Wha ie? What ‘eck sea 1 was 1936 Plymouth coupe that hd no beck seat” We ad two ries. bat they were Tocked away in the epge compare. ‘Bt moat important f al, Hoover did't lead the stick on me, He bid ont wan covered by may ‘uns, He waited wot! he war told the coast wat ‘ler Then became oat 0 rap the poy “The story of Hoover the Hero i fe ‘Over my many years in prison —T was igi for parole fer 15 yeas but they Ken mela for 33—It ‘Gated on me that Americans bad teen pled ito ‘hering Hoover as one of the country's pret men ‘om the basso ha version of my res. "That May doy tn 1936 1 made Hoover's repute tion as fenrles lawman. Its reputation be doce deserve have nothing but contempt for J. Edgar Hoover Fr the rest there are to aploies, no Fart no sorrows, and no animosity. What happened, bap- pened