- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1952
In 1952, the
United States FBI , under DirectorJ. Edgar Hoover , continued for a third year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.As 1952 began, the FBI was seeking a pair of bank robbers, George Arthur Heroux, listed late in the prior year, and his partner Gerhard Arthur Puff, who was listed a few weeks later, into the new year. Crimes such as bank robbery were typical of top ten in this era. With ongoing frequent captures, the turnover rate of new fugitives on the list remained high throughout 1952.
1952 fugitives
The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1952 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order):
ydney Gordon Martin
January 7 1952 #29
Two years on the listSydney Gordon Martin - U.S. prisoner arrestedNovember 27 1953 inCorpus Christi, Texas by the FBI without incident following publicity in theSaturday Evening Post Gerhard Arthur Puff
January 28 1952 #30 - was added soon after his partner George Arthur Heroux, #28
Six months on the listGerhard Arthur Puff - EXECUTED byelectric chair atSing Sing Prison ,Ossining, New York August 12 ,1954 ; was a US PRISONER; was convicted of murder in the first degreeMay 15 ,1953 , in theU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ; was woundedJuly 26 1952 during a gunbattle, after he shot and fatally wounded an FBI Agent waiting to arrest him in the lobby of a hotel inNew York City while staying in room 904; had been charged with George Arthur Heroux (Fugitive #28) onDecember 3 1951 , for the bank robbery and both men were added to the Top Ten fugitives list; with Heroux, he robbed theJohnson County National Bank and Trust Company ofPrairie Village, Kansas onOctober 25 1951 ; had been bailed out (probably by Heroux) onOctober 17 1951 , to report for trial onNovember 15 , but he did not appear; had met Heroux while inMilwaukee County Jail , after he was arrestedMay 2 ,1951 by theMilwaukee Police Department for armed robbery; had been released onApril 25 1951 ; had again been sent to the Wisconsin State Penitentiary in June, 1948, after he was found guilty of breaking and entering a warehouse atBeaver Dam, Wisconsin , and also charged with his 1945 prison escape, received concurrent terms of one to four years and twelve to seventeen months, respectively; had been discharged onNovember 19 ,1947 ; was apprehendedSeptember 21 1945 in a stolen car and again returned to prison, after he had escapedSeptember 6 ,1945 ; had returned to the penitentiaryDecember 28 ,1942 on a sentence of one to nine years, after convicted of assault with intent to commit armed robbery; was discharged onMay 24 ,1939 ; had been sentenced to an additional term of one to ten years for assaulting a guard, and was sent back to the State Penitentiary in February, 1937; was transferred in late 1935 to theState Reformatory atGreen Bay, Wisconsin ; was sentencedAugust 22 ,1935 to serve three concurrent terms of one to five years each in theWisconsin State Penitentiary for stealing animalsThomas Edward Young
February 21 1952 #31
Seven months on the listThomas Edward Young - U.S. prisoner was arrestedSeptember 23 1952 in theBoise National Forest ,Idaho without incident after citizens recognized his photograph onIdentification Orders and in newspaper articlesKenneth Lee Maurer
February 27 1952 #32
Eleven months on the listKenneth Lee Maurer - U.S. prisoner was arrestedJanuary 8 1953 while working at a local cabinet shop inMiami, Florida after several customers saw his published photograph and contacted the FBI. Because of Mauer's fear of flying, he was allowed to return to Detroit by train to face murder charges.Isaie Aldy Beausoleil
March 3 1952 #33
One year on the listIsaie Aldy Beausoleil - U.S. prisoner arrestedJune 25 1953 by a park policewoman while he was spotted dressed as a woman and acting suspicious in a women's restroom inChicago, Illinois Leonard Joseph Zalutsky
August 5 1952 #34
One month on the listLeonard Joseph Zalutsky - U.S. prisoner arrestedSeptember 8 1952 by local police inBeaver Falls, Pennsylvania after he was recognized by two citizens from an FBI wanted poster in a post officeWilliam Merle Martin
August 11 1952 #35
Three weeks on the listWilliam Merle Martin - U.S. prisoner arrestedAugust 30 1952 inSt. Louis, Missouri by local policeJames Eddie Diggs
August 27 1952 #36
Nine years on the listJames Eddie Diggs - PROCESS DISMISSEDDecember 14 1961 inNorfolk, Virginia Nick George Montos
September 8 1952 #37
Two years on the list, and also as #94 in 1956Nick George Montos - reappeared as Fugitive #94 in 1956; was a U.S. prisoner arrestedAugust 23 1954 in Chicago, Illinois when his automobile was identified by two Special Agents, as he and a companion waited for a freight train to pass at a railroad crossingTheodore Richard Byrd, Jr.
September 10 1952 #38
Six months on the listTheodore Richard Byrd, Jr. - U.S. prisoner arrestedFebruary 21 1953 inEl Reno, Oklahoma after an off-duty FBI clerk recognized Byrd from a Wanted Flyer and notified the local policeHarden Collins Kemper
September 17 1952 #39
Four months on the listHarden Collins Kemper - U.S. prisoner arrestedJanuary 1 1953 inGlendale, Arizona after anArizona Highway Patrol man recognized him from an Identification OrderJohn Joseph Brennan
October 6 1952 #40
Four months on the list
John Joseph Brennan - U.S. prisoner arrestedJanuary 23 1953 in Chicago, Illinois because of a tip from an FBI informantLater entries
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* [http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm Current FBI top ten most wanted fugitives at FBI site]
* [http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf FBI pdf source document listing all Ten Most Wanted year by year (removed by FBI)]
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