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Francis "Two Gun" Crowley
Francis Crowley was born on Halloween 1911 in New York City. His mother, a young German immigrant who worked as a domestic helper, placed him in a foster home when Francis was still an infant.
At that time, she was single and unable to care for a baby.
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"Why should I wreck my happy home for that boy?" she later told reporters, "I am married to a man who has been very good to me but who is the type who might...kill me if he knew my past." Anne Crowley, the woman in charge of the foster home, or "baby farm" as it was called then, gave the infant her last name.
She had very little money but tried to give the child whatever she could and managed to send him to school for a time. But Frank was underdeveloped; he was always the smallest student in class, which caused him to be introverted and lonely.
He learned very little and his frustration got the better of him. He never made it past the third grade.
By the time he was 12, Frank was sent out to work