warfare in the city. Ryan decided to retire. Ryan gave a Lincoln dealer a promissory note for $3,500, apparently signed by his brother Ed. In exchange the dealer allowed him to drive a car off the lot. In August 1925, Ryan, in the company of a young woman named Flora, drove to El Paso, Texas, his plan was to end up in Los Angeles where he would meet his old friend, John Considine who owned a number of west coast movie theaters. Arriving in El Paso, Ryan was arrested by a federal officer on two charges: taking a minor across state lines in violation of the Mann Act, and grand larceny, the latter charge based on the fact that when the dealer presented the promissary note to Ed for payment he refused to honor it. The Mann Act charge was dropped when Ryan quickly married Flora. (Anna died in 1923.) Returned to Cincinnati on the grand larceny charge, Ryan delayed the trial for almost two years. During this time Ed, who had sometimes run Ryan's operations in his absence, died, apparently leaving the State without the means of proving its case. At his trial in 1927, the judge directed a verdict in Jack's favor on the basis of the state's failure to prove its case. (The only trial Ryan lost occurred in 1910 when a civil action was brought by a man he had attacked in a rage in a Cincinnati bar, resulting in the man suffering an eye injury. The jury awarded the man $3,000.) Upon dismissal of the larceny charge, Jack, with Flora in tow, resumed his trip to California, reaching Los Angeles in the summer of 1927. By the fall of 1927, Ryan took up residence on a parcel of land at a place called Potero, about thirty miles east of San Diego, on the road to El Centro, California. Potero is in the Cuyamaca Mountains, about a mile from the Mexican border at Tecate. Jack remained at Potero until his death in October 1930 at the age of 70. During this time, he managed a string of horses owned by Alexander Pantages and raced the horses at the Mexican border tracks. The house he lived in still exists, but it is rubble. References 1862 births 1930 deaths American people of Irish descent Businesspeople from Michigan Businesspeople from Cincinnati Businesspeople from Detroit Businesspeople from St. Louis People