DOCTORS LAWYERS SWINDLERS THIEVES: Gerald Chapman and The Tale of Two Gangs

By: David W. Bailey

Before Dillinger, before Capone, there was Gerald Chapman. America's most wanted criminal in the early 1920s, Chapman was a bank robber, burglar, safecracker, bootlegger, car thief, prison escapee, con man, gang member, and murderer who at times enjoyed a flamboyant lifestyle in broad daylight when he wasn't on the run from the law. Chapman was captured in Muncie, Indiana, in January 1925, and eventually hanged for murder in Connecticut in April 1926.An account of Gerald Chapman and his mentor and partner in crime, "Dutch" Anderson, Doctors, Lawyers, Swindlers, Thieves: Gerald Chapman and the Tale of Two Gangs finally sets their story straight, correcting nearly 100 years of misinformation and definitively identifying Chapman's beautiful and mysterious girlfriend Betty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1702822907
• ISBN13: 9781702822909
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"