Convicted of armed robbery in 1925 he was transferred to the Missouri State Penitentiary. In his first few months he heard of other convicts being found beaten, even strangled and knifed, by cellmates in who’s business they tried to interfere. Screams at night were common and rehabilitation sparse. He eventually walked out of prison in 1929, and headed to Kansas City. In 1934, he would be implicated in the infamous ‘Kansas City Massacre’. He was killed by an FBI agent two years later while resisting arrest.