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John H.
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Dry and Lawless Years.
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Court
Cases

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Buckie Baumann et al.,
Detroit
Recorders Court Case No. 72183.

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Charles Jacoby, Abe Bernstein
et
al., Detroit Recorders Court Case No. 80627.

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Philip Keywell, Detroit
Recorders
Court Case No. 97257.

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Morris Raider et al., Detroit
Recorders
Court Case Mo. 75026.

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Harry Fleisher, Detroit
Recorders
Court Case No. 4196.

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Harry Millman et al., Detroit
Recorders
Court Case Mo. 98661.

People
of the City of Detroit vs. Sam Rosenberg alias "Hunky
Sam,"
Detroit Recorders Court Case Mo. A2487.

The
People vs. Raider, The Supreme Court of Michigan,
December
8, 1931, Case Mo. 212, in Northwestern
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387.

Court
Records

F.B.I.
File No. 48-924

F.B.I.
File No. 58-15731

F.B.I.
File No. 15-108-28

Magazines

Berger,
Meyer. "Murder Inc. Justice Overtakes the Largest and Most Cruel
Gang of Killers in U.S. History."
Life
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Kelman,
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Detroit
Free Press Magazine,
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Maas,
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Saturday
Euening Post,
August
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Rockaway,
Robert. "Detroit's Purple Gang: Not So Nice Jewish Boys."
The
Jewish News,
June
19, 1990.

Newspapers

Bay
City Times

Detroit
Euening Times

Detroit
Free Press

Detroit
News

New
York Times

Belknap,
Tim. "The Purples Remembered."
Detroit
Free Press Magazine,
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June 26, 1983.

Reports

Widner,
Edward J. History
of
the Notorious Detroit Purple Gang.
Special
Report: Detroit Police Department Criminal Information Bureau, May
10, 1963.

Miscellaneous

Leiber
and Stoller. 1958. "Jail House Rock.

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