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Albert Kachellek, aka: Jim
Clark (1890-1929) - A gangster working for Bugs Moran, he fell
victim to the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in
Chicago,
Illinois.
On January 19, 1929, Patsy Lolordo, a gangster working for
Al Capone, and his wife, Aleina Lolordo, were murdered in their
Chicago home
by Albert Kachellek, Pete Gusenberg and Frank Gusenberg, all of whom were
working for
Capone's rival, George "Bugs" Moran. The murders broke a truce
between the
Chicago mobsters that had been negotiated six months earlier.
A week later, the Gusenberg brothers attempted to murder
Capone mobster,
Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn.
Capone then decided to assassinate George Moran
and his men. Using a bootlegger to lure the Moran gang to a
Chicago garage
on Thursday, February 14, 1929, several of
Capone's men entered the garage
dressed as policemen, and "arrested" seven Moran gang members. Arriving
late, George Moran escaped the "hit" when he saw what he thought were
police entering the garage. The Moran gang cooperated with the fake
police, since they knew that their boss would bail them out of jail that
afternoon. The "officers" then disarmed and lined the men up against the
wall. Two more
Capone men joined the force and using tommy guns, sprayed
the seven Moran men with bullets. The two fake policemen then marched
their companions out the garage with their hands in the air to throw off
any witnesses and into a car disguised to look like a police squad car.
Though
Capone had arranged the hit, he had an ironclad alibi and no one
was ever charged with the crime. Killed were Albert Kachellek, the two
Gusenberg brothers, and four other Moran gang members. Kachellek was
buried in the Irving Park Cemetery in
Chicago,
Illinois.
 Matthew Kimes (??-1945) -
Oklahoma
bank robber, murderer, and brother of George Kimes, Matthew led the Kimes
Gang in the 1920s. The two Kimes brothers began their outlaw ways at
a young age as little more than petty
thieves but quickly moved on to bank robbery. Thieving throughout
Arkansas,
Arizona,
Kansas
Oklahoma, and
New Mexico. On August 27, 1926,
Sequoyah County,
Oklahoma
Deputy Sheriff Perry Chuculate and another officer
stopped a speeding vehicle. The vehicle, which was stolen, contained both
Matthew and his brother George Kimes. As the officers approached the car,
the Kimes brothers opened fire, killing Deputy Chuculate. The outlaws were
convicted of manslaughter in connection with 's murder and sentenced to 25
years in prison. One of the brothers, Matthew Kimes, escaped from prison
and continued his crime spree.
George was
sent to prison at McAlester,
Oklahoma. However, Matthew was still in jail
when members of his gang forced their
way into jail at gunpoint and rescued him. Matthew continued his crime
spree with the Cotton Top Walker Gang, which was
responsible for the murders of Patrolman Coke Buchanan, of the Borger,
Texas Police Department, on March 19, 1927; Deputy D. P. Kenyon and Deputy Almer Terry, both of the Hutchinson County,
Texas Sheriff's Department, on
April 1, 1927; and Chief W. J. McAnnally of the Beggs,
Oklahoma Police
Department, on May 18, 1927. Kimes was tracked down and arrested in
Flagstaff,
Arizona, on June 23, 1927. He was sentenced to death in the
electric chair for complicity in the death of WJ. McAnally.
His
sentence was later commuted to life in prison. He was turned down for
parole in 1945, but was given a brief leave of absence, during which time
he robbed a bank at Morton,
Texas. On December 1, 1945, he was killed when
he was struck by a truck in Little Rock,
Arkansas.
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