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Family members of some criminals of the day went on carnival
like road tours called, “Crime Does Not Pay.” It was not
something they enjoyed but if they could educate future
generations about the consequences of crime, and hopefully
deter them from choosing a criminal career, something good
would have come out of their loss. They were paid for their
speaking engagements. It was hard for some of them to talk
about their outlaw family members, who most likely were dead
by then. They were paid pretty well for their time. They all
needed the money since they were still in the later years of the
great depression. It was a matter of survival for most. Work was
hard to come by especially if you were related to public enemies
during this time. Some had been fired from jobs once their
employers found out who they were. They might as well have
been hardened criminals themselves.
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Many of them served prison time for harboring their
loved ones that were on the run from the law. The parents of Clyde Barrow
and mother of Bonnie Parker went on the “Crime Doesn't Pay” show with
Charles Stanley, the “Crime Doctor”. John Dillinger's father as joined
a similar “Crime Does Not Pay” show by Johnny J. Jones shows.
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Evelyn Frechette was
in prison when she
wrote a booklet about
crime that would
later sell for twenty
five cents each at this
same show which she
joined upon her
release from prison in
1936. (Gun Molls poster courtesly of William J. Helmer.)
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