Page 3 of the Washington Times, 12 February 1930, with photographs of President Hoover in Florida across the top and the item Detroit Gang to Surrender in a lower column
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Washington Times, 12 February 1930, page 3: Detroit gang to surrender

Detroit Gang to Surrender

Paper
The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)
Date
1930-02-12
Page
Page 3
Headline
Detroit Gang to Surrender
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 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.