a local urban legend, similar to Al Capone or Whitey Bulger. In later years, he was alleged to have installed bulletproof windows on his suburban house and to have been able to fix any problem with a single phone call. During his lifetime, Kid Cann bore a love–hate relationship with his legend, on one hand glorying in the attention and also feeling infuriated by the increased F.B.I. surveillance that it brought him beginning in the early 1950s. In a 1976 interview, he snapped, "Ninety percent of what was written about me is bullshit!" In popular culture In October 2010, the "Minnesota Landmarks and Lakeshore Players" performed a stage play about Kid Cann's life and trials at Saint Paul's Landmark Center, the historic Ramsey County Courthouse. The play was written and directed by Joan Gill Elwell. See also Near v. Minnesota References Further reading Cohen, Rich, "Tough Jews - Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams", Vintage Books (subsidiary of Random House), 1998, 1999 Karlen, Neal, "Augie's Secrets: The Minneapolis Mob and the King of the Hennepin Strip", Minnesota Historical Society Press, April 2013. Paul Maccabee, "Alias Kid Cann", Mpls. St. Paul, (November 1991), pages 88–91, 160–162. Marda Liggett Woodbury, "Stopping the Presses; The Murder of Walter W. Liggett", Minnesota Historical Society Press. Almog, Oz, Kosher Nostra Jüdische Gangster in Amerika, 1890–1980 ; Jüdischen Museum der Stadt Wien ; 2003, Text Oz Almog, Erich Metz, "The Forgotten Crime Boss: Kid Cann, the Original Teflon Don, Reigned Over Minneapolis", Brian P. Rubin, City Pages'', April 22, 2015. Jewish American gangsters 1900 births 1981 deaths Criminals from Minnesota Depression-era gangsters Minnesota folklore Romanian Jews Romanian emigrants to the United States American people of Romanian-Jewish descent Organized crime in Minnesota People from Râmnicu Sărat 20th-century American Jews