On October 12, 1937, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended a two-year rampage of murder, burglary, and bank robbery by ambushing three members of the notorious Brady Gang at a sporting goods store in Bangor, Maine. Alfred Brady and Clarence Lee Shaffer were killed in the ensuing gun battle; James Dalhover was executed in the electric chair the following year. The purpose of the Brady Gang’s Bangor visit had been to obtain more weapons, to which its members had a strangely fetishistic attraction; investigation of their Baltimore “workshop” turned up an illegal arsenal impressive even by modern standards: 8 .45-caliber automatic pistols; 7 .38-caliber revolvers; 3 .30-caliber machine guns (two of them stolen from American Legion Monuments); 5 .32-caliber automatic pistols; 5 .30-caliber rifles; 1 .30-caliber automatic rifle; 2 12-gauge shotguns; 1 .45-caliber revolver; 1 .32-caliber revolver; 2 .22-caliber automatic pistols; large quantities of ammunition, extra shot belts, magazines, clips, drums, and tear-gas grenades.