Leo Vincent Brothers, also known as Vincent Bader (1899 – 1950) was an early 20th-century American gangster who gained notoriety throughout the underworld after being convicted of the 1930 murder of Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle.
Starting out as a low-level member of the St. Louis gang known as the Egan's Rats,[1] Brothers was once the manager and a bouncer at The Green Mill in Chicago.
Mario Gomes, Capone historian says that Frank (Frankie) Foster who was a triggerman for the North Side Mob and later the Chicago Outfit was most likely the man who pulled the trigger on the Jake Lingle contract.
After his release in 1940, Brothers returned to St. Louis, beat his original murder case, and became hooked up with the local mob.
Three months after an unsuccessful attempt on his life, Leo Brothers died of heart disease in St. Louis on December 23, 1950.