On This Date in Minnesota History: January 13

January 13, 1934 - Wearing his Northwest Airlines radio operator's uniform, Roy McCord was mistaken for a police office by gangster Alvin Karpis and severely wounded in a hail of gunfire near the Holly Falls Apartments, 562 Holly Avenue, Saint Paul.

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Gangster Alvin Karpis

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Holly Falls Apartments, 562 Holly Avenue, Saint Paul, Minn.

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