Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld

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Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld (center) with unidentified men, probably following his acquittal in the Walter Liggett murder case. One of Justice Edward Devitt's most notable cases was the 1961 racketeering trial of the Minneapolis gangster.

Photographer: St. Paul Daily News

Date: 1936

Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society

This file appears in: Edward Devitt

By Steve Trimble
Edward Devitt (1911-1992) was born into an Irish working class family in Saint Paul. He attended Van Buren Elementary School where he was a younger schoolmate of Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun.…