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Page 3 of the Evening Star, Washington, 23 September 1929, with the item Rosenberg, Alleged Gunman, Is Seized in the center below a photograph of Charles Evans Hughes
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Evening Star, 23 September 1929, page 3: Rosenberg, alleged gunman, is seized

Rosenberg, Alleged Gunman, Is Seized

Paper
Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
Date
1929-09-23
Page
Page 3
Headline
Rosenberg, Alleged Gunman, Is Seized
Source
Library of Congress, Chronicling America
Rights
A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.

Page 3 of the Washington Evening Star for Monday, 23 September 1929. The item “Rosenberg, Alleged Gunman, Is Seized,” with the deck “Chicago Detectives Identify Detroit Kidnaping Suspect by Records,” is credited to the Associated Press and datelined Chicago, September 23.

It reports that Abe Rosenberg, “alleged Detroit gunman, gangster and kidnapper,” seized on suspicion and identified by his police record, would be returned to Detroit in connection with the kidnapping of David Cass, 22, who disappeared on July 25. It continues: “Rosenberg is reputed head of the purple gang of Detroit, extortionists and gunmen, according to officials,” and says he was questioned about the killing of seven men in Chicago on St. Valentine’s Day.

These are officials’ descriptions, as the wire service gave them. The page reports no charge or outcome, and no other record filed here names Rosenberg.