Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on November 22, 1930.

CAPTURE LAST MEMBER GANG OF ROBBERS

James Germano in Hiding Since Capture of Pals, Nabbed and Brought Here to County Jail.

SKUBICH WAS ROBBERY PARTNER

James Germano, 22, alleged member of the Stillinovich-Magdos-Dago Dan gang of bandits wich terrorized the Calumet region, including north Porter county resorts along Dunes Highway until their roundup several months ago, was brought here to Porter county jail early today by Sheriff Burney Maxwell and Deputy Sheriff Freeman Lane.

Germano was the last member of the gang at large. He was captured Friday when he sought to return to Gary from Chicago, where he had been in hiding since his pals were corralled in a big roundup by Lake and Porter county officers.

Sheriff Burney Maxwell has two robbery charges to press against Germano. One is the Wigwam barbecue on Dunes Highway; the other the theft of $135 from a bureau drawer at the Andrew Holmgren farm, east of Flint lake, during a fire which destroyed a barn on that place last summer.

Willie Skubich, 19, of Gary, recently sentenced to Indiana reformatory for a period of one to ten years, was a partner of Germano in the two robberies.

Dago Dan, former leader of the gang was killed early this summer in a holdup at Berwyn, Ill. Nick Marley, another member of the gang, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison several weeks ago in Lake criminal court at Crown Point. Other members of the gang are in Crown Point jail awaiting trial.