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- ↑ "Paul Jaworski Paid Supreme Penalty Yesterday; Body Unclaimed". Indiana Evening Gazette. Indiana, Pennsylvania. January 22, 1929. p. 1. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
- 1 2 Morton, James (2002) [1998]. "10: Cleveland". Gangland International: The Mafia and Other Mobs. Warner. pp. 235–236. ISBN 0-7515-2237-6.
Of course pre-war crime in Cleveland had not been wholly from the Italian and Jewish element. There were at least two major Polish-led gangs of robbers. One was the Flatheads led by Paul Jaworski. On 13 September 1928 when Jaworski and Frank "Whitey" Kraft were caught in a restaurant, Kraft ran out the back but Jaworski holed up in Chambers Avenue. He was driven out by tear gas and was shot. It was not thought he would survive, but he did so. He has already shot a prison guard escaping from Pittsburgh, and was said to have killed up to 26 people including a former gang member who was also a drug addict. Jaworski, rather than see him suffer, threw his body in the river. Returned to Pennsylvania where he was electrocuted." "Shortly before his execution, Jaworski sent his friends a postcard with his future address - 45 Hellsfire Road, 6/14 miles from Hell. Father Pat O'Brien would not have used him as an example. Frank "Whitey" Kraft was later killed by police in Detroit.
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- ↑ On-This-Day.com - March 11
- ↑ "Bandits Dynamite Armored Pay Car and Take $104,250". New York Times (March 12). March 12, 1927. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
- 1 2 The Great Detroit News Payroll Robbery, Detroit History, at detnews.com, 5/1/2000 Archived July 13, 2012, at archive.today
- ↑ "Tests Sanity of Jaworski". The Morning Herald. Uniontown, Pennsylvania. January 5, 1929. p. 3. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2009.
- ↑ "Paul Jaworski to be executed this morning". The Morning Herald. Uniontown, Pennsylvania. January 21, 1929. p. 1. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2009.