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Gangland warfare during Colorado’s bloody bootleg days
In the 1930s when Prohibition was in full swing, kids working for bootleggers waited on Denver street corners. The kids pointed drivers to men who sold “packages” of ten pints of liquor for $10....
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Denver’s first kidnapping for ransom
Denver Post File Denver Post illustration of Benjamin Bower kidnapping. January 21, 1932 CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE. THEN CTRL +. Denver’s first kidnapping for ransom happened in 1932. On the evening of...
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1922 robbery of the U.S. Mint in Denver
Denver Post File December 18, 1922 On December 18, 1922, four men in a Buick pulled up beside a Federal Reserve truck outside the U.S. Mint in Denver just as the guards finished loading $200,000. Three...
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