ABSTRACT
Behind every great gangster stood his gun moll. During the 1920s, girlfriends of gangsters were often as famous as the gangsters themselves. Reporters called them gun molls, and the women were photographed in glamorous clothes wearing the latest hairstyles. Some of the molls like Mae Capone never carried guns and weren’t involved in the gangsters’ life of crime. They were most guilty of turning a blind eye to what their boyfriends or husbands did as a living. Mary Northern Kinder looked like a sweet young mother. She didn’t look like a woman who would help a gang of men break out of prison, but she did—and she drove the getaway car. This crime made her one of only two women on the Chicago Public Enemies list in 1933. Blanche Barrow was a member of the same gang as Bonnie and Clyde. She helped the Barrow Gang in an armed robbery.
