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Eddie Green (criminal)

Biography, Major career

A week later in Mason City, Iowa, despite casing the bank with Van Meter beforehand at an estimated $250,000 and using a series of diagrams and planned getaway routes made by Green, the gang grabbed only $52,000, taking 25 hostages to make their getaway possible. Both Dillinger and John "Red" Hamilton were wounded in their shoulders, as well as an innocent bystander that Nelson mistook for a cop, during their escape.

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Eddie Green (criminal)

Biography, Death

Returning to St. Paul, Green provided a safehouse for Dillinger and Van Meter. However, the FBI had been on Dillinger's trail for some time, as they were for many Depression-era outlaws, and were getting close to capturing him. On March 31, federal agents raided the hideout and surprised the three, who managed to escape after an ensuing shootout. Dillinger was wounded in the escape and, while Green arranged for medical treatment in Minneapolis, the FBI came up with a lead on Dillinger's benefactor. When investigators were searching Dillinger's abandoned apartment, they discovered a telephone number which they traced to one of Green's hideouts in St. Paul.

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Eddie Green (criminal)

Biography, Death

Green and his common-law wife Bessie turned up at the safehouse on April 3. Green left the car and proceeded to enter the apartment when he was ambushed by federal agents, armed with Thompson machine guns, and was shot in the head and shoulder. The FBI defended its actions, amid conflicting reports that Green had either attempted to flee or was gunned down in cold blood, claiming that Green "assumed a threatening attitude ... accompanied by menacing gestures." The FBI would receive heavy criticism from the press in regards to the death of an unarmed suspect, which slowed their investigation of Dillinger.

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Eddie Green (criminal)

Biography, Death

Green was taken to a hospital in St. Paul where he died from his wounds seven days later. He was delirious for the week before his death, allowing federal agents to record every word he said. Among the information they were able to gain included revealing the existence of the Karpis-Barker Gang, whom they were able to capture within 10 months. His wife, then held in custody for harboring her husband, told the police the names of Dillinger's gang upon her husband's death. She also confirmed that the Karpis-Barker gang was responsible for the January 1934 kidnaping of Edward Bremer, and named all of the gang members along with their girlfriends, leading to the issuing of federal indictments against them.

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Eddie Green (footballer)

Robert Edward Green (January 1912 – 1949) was an English footballer. His regular position was as a forward. He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. He started his playing career at Gloucestershire amateur team Tewkesbury Town before playing for Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Derby County, Manchester United, Stockport County and Cheltenham Town.

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Eddie Grey

Edward Ian "Eddie" Gray (21 December 1918 – 21 September 2004) was a Sri Lankan sportsman and a police officer. Gray was a former Inspector of Police (IP) and the first Ceylonese head of the Police Mounted Section. He also served as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Ceylon.

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Eddie Grey

Education

He was educated at Royal College, Colombo, where he was a Senior Prefect and Captain of the Athletics team, Boxing team and Rugby team.

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Eddie Grey

Police career

After completing his schooling he joined the Ceylon Police Force and was appointed as a Sub-Inspector of Police at his first duty station in Kandy. When World War II broke out Gray was the Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Koggala police station, where the RAF Koggala was situated and served as a critical base for Allied operations in the Indian Ocean. He later served as OIC of the harbor police at the Colombo port.

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Eddie Grey

Police career

Joining the Police Stables he went on to become the first Ceylonese to head the unit as its OIC. On the morning of 22 March 1952 Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake was riding the police mare ‘Chitra’ on the Galle Face Green when he suffered a stroke and fell. He was accompanied by IGP Sir Richard Aluwihare, G.G. Ponnambalam and Inspector Eddie Gray at the time who took him to a nursing home, where he died several hours later.

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Eddie Grey

Police career

Prior to his early retirement he served as the OIC of Colombo Fort police station. During his police service he received the Ceylon Police Medal for Meritorious Service, Defence Medal 1939-45, Ceylon Police Independence Medal and the Service Medal of the Order of St John. After his retirement he was an executive at Mercantile Credit until 1974 when he left for Australia.

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Eddie Grey

Sports

A boxer he won his weight class at the Stubs Shield Boxing Meet for schools and retained the title of Light Weight Champion of Ceylon for many years. Gray was a member of the Ceylon contingent to the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where he competed in lightweight boxing competition and was a team mate of Duncan White, who won silver in the Men's 400 metres hurdles event. Gray went on to represent Ceylon in the lightweight boxing competition at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland.

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Eddie Grey

Sports

He served as the Secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Ceylon and was also an excellent Horseman and Polo player.

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Eddie Grey

1948 Olympic results

Below are the results of Edward Gray, a lightweight boxer from Ceylon, who competed at the 1948 London Olympics:

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Eddie Gribbon

Eddie Gribbon (January 3, 1890 – September 29, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films from the 1910s to the 1950s.