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Karpis, Alvin, 1908-1979

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Personal name headingKarpis, Alvin, 1908-1979
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Variant(s)Karpowicz, Albin, 1908-1979
LocatedTopeka (Kan.) Minnesota
Birth date1908-08-10
Death date1979-08-26
Place of birthMontréal (Québec)
Place of deathTorremolinos (Spain)
Field of activityCrime
Profession or occupationCriminals
Found inHis The Alvin Karpis story, 1971.
His On the Rock, 2008: t.p. (Alvin Karpis) foreword (b. Albin Karpowicz in Montréal in 1908; grew up in Topeka, Kan. where an elementary school teacher changed his name to Alvin Karpis which he kept for the rest of his life) p. 307 (d. in Torremolinas, Spain on Aug. 26, 1979)
Karpis, Alvin. Alvin Karpis and the Barker gang in Minnesota, 2020: title page (member of the Karpis-Barker gang based in Minnesota) page 44 (born on Aug. 10)