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Cleveland had not been wholly from the Italian and Jewish element. There were at least two major Polish-led gangs of robbers. One was the Flatheads led by Paul Jaworski. On 13 September 1928 when Jaworski and Frank "Whitey" Kraft were caught in a restaurant, Kraft ran out
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gangster born in Poland. He immigrated to the United States in 1905. Although born to
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robbery, on March 11, 1927. The gang stole over $ 104,000 from an armored vehicle on Bethel Road (now
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