In 2003, the Smithsonian Institution was gifted with one of the claims of the most notorious bank robbery of 1920’s. Bank robber Andy Kapler was shot by police nearly a century ago at the Gervasi Vineyard in Plain Township. Andy Kapler had many aliases by his side such as Harry Harpert, Harry Hartman, William Martin, and William Hoffman.
By January, he was running with the “Jiggs” gang in Cleveland. When him and four gang members decided to reb a teller at a back in Pennsylvania, Kapler ended up shooting and killing the teller. At Mahoning Road and Maple Street, one gang member named “Oklahoma Slim,” was arrested and held at Stark County Workhouse for a burglary tool charge. In May, the gang realized they had to make a trip to Canton to free there member in jail, but they never were able to accomplish this.
Police Motorcycle Officer, John Wise, made a call that would change the history of man's lifetime on May 4, 1922. While seeing a speeding car, he ordered the four men that were inside the car to police headquarters. On the way, …show more content…
My parents were repeatedly getting asked by news reporters and being questioned by investigators as to what actually happened that day for months after the shoot out. Luckily my family had went on vacation that week and was not at the farm when these actions had been done.
Kapler was a huge piece of historical value now. His body was embalmed, meaning mummified, at the former Hiller Funeral Parlor in Canton. After Kapler had died, nobody had came to claim his body. No family or friends showed up for weeks, leaving the funeral parlor no choice but to embalm him. Since he was a huge historical figure in Plain Township now, his body was publically displayed at the parlor until several years later.
Several years passed until Kapler's body was sold to a sideshow operator in San Francisco. Month later he was then sold to to a collector before it ultimately was sold to the Smithsonian in 2003.
By January, he was running with the “Jiggs” gang in Cleveland. When him and four gang members decided to reb a teller at a back in Pennsylvania, Kapler ended up shooting and killing the teller. At Mahoning Road and Maple Street, one gang member named “Oklahoma Slim,” was arrested and held at Stark County Workhouse for a burglary tool charge. In May, the gang realized they had to make a trip to Canton to free there member in jail, but they never were able to accomplish this.
Police Motorcycle Officer, John Wise, made a call that would change the history of man's lifetime on May 4, 1922. While seeing a speeding car, he ordered the four men that were inside the car to police headquarters. On the way, …show more content…
My parents were repeatedly getting asked by news reporters and being questioned by investigators as to what actually happened that day for months after the shoot out. Luckily my family had went on vacation that week and was not at the farm when these actions had been done.
Kapler was a huge piece of historical value now. His body was embalmed, meaning mummified, at the former Hiller Funeral Parlor in Canton. After Kapler had died, nobody had came to claim his body. No family or friends showed up for weeks, leaving the funeral parlor no choice but to embalm him. Since he was a huge historical figure in Plain Township now, his body was publically displayed at the parlor until several years later.
Several years passed until Kapler's body was sold to a sideshow operator in San Francisco. Month later he was then sold to to a collector before it ultimately was sold to the Smithsonian in 2003.