Last August, with the hot breaths of Tom Dewey and J. Edgar Hoover both on his neck, Gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive for two years, chose as the lesser of two evils to give himself up ...

A bulletproof limousine, with seven armed guards, whipped up to Manhattan’s Federal jail and collected Murderer Louis (“Lepke”) Buchalter. After 14 months of haggling with the U.S ...