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The College Kidnappers
The College Kidnappers was a group of alumni from the University of Illinois who specialized in kidnapping wealthy mobsters for ransom. These mobsters were targets because they were less likely to approach the police and could pay the ransom. The group was a ten-man, Chicago-based group led by Theodore "Handsome Jack" Klutas. Members This mob-affiliated group got their name "College Kidnappers" because their leader Theodore "Handsome Jack" Klutas was an alumnus of the University of Illinois. The regular members of this group included Edward Doll aka "Eddie LaRue", Russell Hughes, Frank Souder, Gale Swoley, Ernest Rossi, Eddie Wagner, Earl McMahon, Julius "Babe" Jones, and Walter Dietrich. "Handsome Jack" Klutas Theodore Klutas was the son of William and Ida E. Klutas. Handsome Jack was portrayed to be large in stature and very handsome, hence the name "Handsome Jack". Klutas had connections with John Dillinger and with the Chicago crime world. He came from a respectable family w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Illinois
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867. Enrolling over 56,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the country. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". In fiscal year 2019, research expenditures at Illinois totaled $652 million. The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States by holdings after Harvard University. The university also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and is home to the fastest supercomputer on a university campus. The u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Doll
Edward Doll (January 20, 1902 – February 28, 1967) was an American gangster from Chicago, Illinois, active during the Prohibition era. Although he is remembered as a lesser figure in Prohibition crime, Doll was featured by name in two 1930s radio dramatizations, was mentioned in books and articles by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and played a leading role in several historic crimes, including the kidnapping of Howard Woolverton and the Lincoln National Bank robbery. Early criminal history Doll enlisted in the US Marine Corps in February 1920, but by June of that year had been convicted of an unspecified crime. However, he escaped while enroute from Parris Island to the Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine, and by 1922 had changed his name to Edward LaRue and was running a downtown lunch counter in Burlington, Iowa. He was married to the former Naomi Whitten and had a son, Robert. Naomi died on October 11, 1924, and two days after her death, on October 13, 1924, a loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
