Schmidt Brewery- Gangster Tour (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

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The brewery's success helped make the Bremers one of Minnesota's wealthiest families - and a target for kidnappers. In 1934, the Barker-Karpis Gang—under orders from Ma Barker and Creepy Karpis—kidnapped Adolf's son Edward Bremer. The thugs had already kidnapped and released William Hamm Jr., president of the city's Hamm Brewing Co., for a $100,000 ransom. When President Franklin Roosevelt decried the crime, however, the gang released the beer magnate. During Prohibition, Schmidt beer was delivered to the underworld's Green Lantern Saloon via tunnel to a brewery employee's house on Erie Street.
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Coordinates:   44°55'45"N   93°7'25"W
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