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While the FBI was looking through Ziegler's personal effects and tracing the leads they provided, Ma was dispatched to see Ziegler's widow, whom she convinced to turn over the money concealed by her late husband. Returning to the gang's hideout, Ma discovered the place in an uproar: the FBI was closing in and the gang would have to scatter. Ma's days of handing payoffs to officials and running other errands in complete anonymity were over. The FBI had decided that she had been the brains behind the gang's activities, and, whether she had earned the reputation or not, she was stuck with it. In January 1935 Doc was apprehended by the special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago field office, Melvyn Purvis. Eight days after Doc's arrest Fred was located in a rented cottage near Lake Weir, Florida. The house was quickly surrounded, and at the end...
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