Deaths

Arthur "Doc" Barker, bank and armored-car robber and founding member of the Barker-Karpis gang, killed while attempting to escape the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, 14 June 1939.

Benjamin N. Cardozo, 68, United States Supreme Court associate justice (1932-1938) and acclaimed legal scholar whose belief that law should be molded to fulfill the needs of a society deeply influenced that Court in the later days of the New Deal era, 9 July 1938.

Clarence Darrow, 80, who, as the "attorney for the damned," was one of the nation's most famous criminal lawyers, defending, among others, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, Eugene V. Debs, J. T. Scopes (the "Monkey Trial"), and the McNamara brothers who were accused of bombing the Los Angeles Times building, 21 March 1938.

Izzy Einstein, 57, Prohibition agent and master of disguises who was personally responsible during his career for the...

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