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Ma' Barker: A Doting Mother And Gangster Overlord

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

How Much Ma Barker Loved the Devil?

All four Barker boys made the Tulsa police blotter between 1910 and 1911. The Joplin Globe wrote in 1939 that the boys were known as the town Tufts before they were out of school. Their home became a meeting place for Nerdy Wells, a crime school so successful that many who congregated there graduated to try it on a bigger scale under a variety of assumed names.

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