CRIME: Two for One

"We're going to get that fellow. Nobody can kill one of our men and get away with it."

Such was the sentence passed last spring by Director J. Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Department of Justice's Division of Investigation on Lester M. Gillis, 25. Since he was 13, pink-cheeked little Gillis had been in & out of reform school and prison as a smalltime automobile thief, hold-up man. bank robber. But he did not become a headline lawbreaker until last year when, under the name of George ("Baby...

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