![]() Hearing her name, the 24-year-old offered authorities a deal: Release Margaret, and he would confess “the works, the whole works, and it will startle New York.“ This show of affection, writes Glenn Stout in Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America’s Original Gangster Couple, cemented the pair’s status as star-crossed lovers-and set the stage for a fittingly tragic ending to their story. As the New York Times reported shortly after his arrest, the Candy Kid appeared “cool and … indifferent”-at least until authorities mentioned his wife. In March 1926, after a year-long crime spree that left at least six dead, authorities finally caught up to the Whittemore Gang. Led by young couple Richard and Margaret Whittemore, known respectively as “the Candy Kid” and “Tiger Girl,” the group’s lavish lifestyle and violent escapades captured Americans’ attention much like the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde would less than a decade later. At the height of the Roaring Twenties, the Whittemore Gang targeted banks and jewelry stores across the East Coast, stealing upward of $1 million in diamonds and precious gems (around $15 million today). ![]()
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