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This Day in Minnesota History

January 15, 1933

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William Hamm Jr., son of the owner of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, is kidnapped at Minnehaha Street and Greenbrier Avenue in St. Paul. He is released after a ransom of $100,000 is paid. Gangster Roger Touhy is brought to trial but acquitted, and investigators later learn that the real culprits were the Barker-Karpis gang.

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