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Jackson County Sheriff Thompson - seized from Richard (not Fred) Burke


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  • 2 weeks later...

Interesting mystery- A R. Touhy Thompson sits in the Sheriff's office, I think, in Lake Geneva area. It was taken from Touhy in an arrest in about 1928. We uncovered it when doing research on the Dillinger Thompsons.

I bet there is some tie-in ??

 

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

What is the S/N of the Touhy gun in Lake Geneva?

My guess is it "originated" from the Buckeye Bicycle Co in Ohio...!

Same as Jackson Co's and the possible "purple gang from the Detroit River" gun.

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Don't have it in front of me, I'll check with the group, one of our guys is a retired Sheriff he had called the Sheriff there. I think there is a local newspaper article on it too. We had some issues getting information from the area, mainly nobody knew much. We were tracking down the Dillinger 33 Buick there, nobody had a clue about it other then an old picture of a 33 Buick 90.
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I guess the information on the Thompson never came thru. Guy never got back to us ???
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