2. Lou Herbert Blonger
Lou Blonger was a mining speculator, saloonkeeper and a con man. As his crime gang grew bigger, he no longer worked in the saloon and styled himself as a mining magnate. From his headquarters at the American National Bank building, his crime gang was untouched by local police. Blonger always cultivated the image of a model citizen, while continuing to bribe law enforcement officials and to schmooze public officials. Blonger was incarcerated in the Colorado State Penitentiary and died there on 1924.
