# Washington Times, 12 February 1930, page 3: Detroit gang to surrender

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An International News Service item: an attorney promised the surrender of four 'purple gangsters', Raymond, Isadore and Joe Bernstein and Jules Jaffe, after detectives testified that Inspector Henry J. Garvin had altered 1927 arrest reports.

Page 3 of the Washington Times for Wednesday, 12 February 1930. The item "Detroit Gang to Surrender," credited to the International News Service and datelined Detroit, February 12, sits in a lower column below photographs of President Hoover in Florida.

It reports that the surrender of four "purple gangsters," who had escaped prosecution two years earlier, was promised by their attorney, and names them as Raymond, Isadore and Joe Bernstein and Jules Jaffe. It says this followed testimony by two detectives before a police trial board that Inspector Henry J. Garvin altered 1927 arrest reports so that guns were described as found outside the car.

The allegations against Garvin are those of two detectives before a police trial board, as reported; the page gives no finding. The same hearing is reported in [the Evening Star of the same day](/clippings/clip-evening-star-1930-02-12-p16/).

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1930-02-12/ed-1/?sp=3
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/dlc/batch_dlc_adamsmorgan_ver01/data/sn84026749/0022225467A/1930021201/0912.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1