In the criminal underworld of 1920s Detroit, the name Joseph Bloom was tied to a life of high-stakes crime that ultimately led to his violent demise. Alongside his associates, Frank Wright and George Cohen, Bloom was involved in kidnapping local gamblers for ransom. This dangerous enterprise brought their trio into direct conflict with the city's most formidable organized crime syndicate, the Purple Gang. The feud ignited in late 1926 when Bloom and his partners were implicated in the murder of
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