"St. Paul had a widespread - if inglorious - reputation as a criminal safe haven during the Gangster Era of the 1930s. In this episode, government records specialist Charles Rodgers shares several items from the Society's collection associated with that colorful age." Posted to YouTube by the Minnesota Historical Society, December 6, 2010.

"Rondo, a thriving African American community in St. Paul, was virtually eliminated by construction of the I-94 freeway in the 1960s." Video posted to YouTube by the Minnesota Historical Society on July 12, 2013.

Edward Devitt, the judge who sent Kid Cann to federal prison, ca. 1980.

Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) handcuffed and led into federal custody, 1961. Photo by Don Black, Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Headline and article in the Minneapolis Star (February 23, 1960) reporting on the conviction in the Minneapolis Federal District Court of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) for participation in a sex trafficking racket.

Marilyn Ann Tollefson, a sex worker with a close relationship to Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) in the 1950s. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, February 17, 1960.

Minneapolis Tribune headline and article reporting on the acquittal of Isadore Blumenfeld (Kid Cann) in the murder of Walter W. Liggett, February 19, 1936.

Isadore Blumenfeld, alias Kid Cann (seated at center), on trial for the murder of Walter W. Liggett in Minneapolis, 1936.

Diagram of the scene of the murder of Walter W. Liggett. Minneapolis Star, January 30, 1936.

Diagram of the scene of the murder of Walter W. Liggett. Original caption: “Upon a photograph of the alley behind 1825 Second Avenue S., where Walter Liggett was slain last night. The Star’s artist shows how the car from which Liggett was killed drew alongside the editor’s automobile and fired the five shots which instantly killed the publisher.” Minneapolis Star, December 10, 1935