In 1952, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a third year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. As 1952 began, the FBI was seeking a pair of bank robbers, George Arthur Heroux, listed late in the prior year, and his partner Gerhard Arthur Puff, who was listed a few weeks later, into the new year. Crimes such as bank robbery were typical of top ten in this era. With ongoing frequent captures, the turnover rate of new fugitives on the list remained high throughout 1952. 1952 fugitives The "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" listed by the FBI in 1952 include (in FBI list appearance sequence order): Sydney Gordon Martin January 7, 1952 #29 Two years on the list Sydney Gordon Martin - U.S. prisoner arrested November 27, 1953, in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the FBI without incident following publicity in the Saturday Evening Post Gerhard Arthur Puff January 28, 1952 #30 - was added soon after his partner George Arthur Heroux, #28 Six months on the list Gerhard Arthur Puff - EXECUTED by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York August 12, 1954; was a US PRISONER; was convicted of murder in the first degree May 15, 1953, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; was wounded July 26, 1952, during a gunbattle, after he shot and fatally wounded an FBI Agent waiting to arrest him in the lobby of a hotel in New York City while staying in room 904; had been charged with George Arthur Heroux (Fugitive #28) on December 3, 1951, for the bank robbery and both men were added to the Top Ten fugitives list; with Heroux, he robbed the Johnson County National Bank and Trust Company of Prairie Village, Kansas, on October 25, 1951; had been bailed out (probably by Heroux) on October 17, 1951, to report for trial on November 15, but he did not appear; had met Heroux while in Milwaukee County Jail, after he was arrested May 2, 1951, by the Milwaukee Police Department for armed robbery; had been released on April 25, 1951; had again been sent to the Wisconsin State Penitentiary in June, 1948, after he was found guilty of breaking and entering a warehouse at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and also charged with his 1945 prison escape, received concurrent