By the 1910 census, the family was living at 1329 Main Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Thaddeus's father's occupation was listed as a paper hanger.
[3] On September 20, 1917 Skeer and Carl Axt, were both fined $1 and costs and sentenced to 120 days at the state penal farm[4] for stealing a tire from an automobile belonging to the Coca-Cola company.
[4] On November 24, 1917, Skeer's compatriot Carl Axt, 16, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail for stealing an automobile tire.
[6] At 1:30 in the afternoon of March 27, 1925, five armed bandits entered the South Side Bank at Kokomo, Indiana in a bold daylight holdup.
[8] Three local young men, who witnessed the robbery, reported that they did not raise the alarm because an apparent lookout eyed them closely while they were at the store across from the bank.
"[9] While the bandits were working, a local resident, Vernon Shaw, entered the bank and was quickly relieved of the $18 he was carrying.
[6] Police were tipped off to Skeer's involvement when it was learned that the auto used in the Kokomo robbery had been stolen from Fort Wayne a few days before.
Captain William Pappert of the Fort Wayne police department had reported that Skeer had been seen at the Brunner woman's home with a large sum of money.
[12] Bridgewater's wife, Mary had previously been arrested in connection with the gangs activities and was serving a term at the Indianapolis women's prison.
Gorton, cashier of the South Kokomo bank; "Chic" Nelson, golf professional at the country club, and Vernon Shaw.
[16] It was Nelson who identified Hayes, a locally known singer, and allowed detectives to put the pieces together in tracking the members of the gang.
Members of the gang reportedly threw wild parties in Kokomo and Anderson, Indiana where they displayed large sums of money to their women and were spending 'like drunken sailors'.
[22] Ohio authorities intended to keep him in their state and prosecute rather than returning him to Indiana to finish out his term of ten to twenty-five years for breaking parole.
[25] Press reports indicated that the police stated that Skeer had been convicted for armed robbery, counterfeiting and bootlegging in the past 37 years.
[24] Lawrence was later sentenced to a prison term of one to seven years for manslaughter, and the Hi-Ho Club later became the home of Temple Baptist Church.