Arthur Kasherman saw himself as a "vice crusader" publishing fearless exposes about corruption and gangster rule in the city, while others derided him as a blackmailer who threatened to write defamatory articles about people if they didn't pay him off.
13 Facts About Arthur Kasherman
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Arthur Kasherman was the third of three newspapermen murdered in Minneapolis between 1934 and 1945.
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Arthur Kasherman was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States when he was about 10 years old.
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Arthur Kasherman grew up in the heavily Jewish enclave of north Minneapolis and graduated from North High School.
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Arthur Kasherman wanted to be a lawyer and attended the Minnesota College of Law.
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Arthur Kasherman was jailed for contempt of court when he refused to name his confidential sources about a gangster's payoff of the Minneapolis police chief.
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Arthur Kasherman ran a long-shot campaign for mayor in 1931, but he devoted most of his efforts to the gritty, blog-like world of the scandal sheet and alternative press.
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Arthur Kasherman worked for a time with Howard Guilford, the muckraking, often scurrilous and bigoted publisher of the Saturday Press and the Twin City Reporter.
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In 1936, Arthur Kasherman was arrested in a sting operation in which a brothel operator accused him of shaking her down for $25 per month on threats he would write her up in his paper.
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Arthur Kasherman's death made the front pages of newspapers across the Twin Cities, but few in the city were surprised when the police investigation quickly petered out.
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Arthur Kasherman's murder was never solved, but he perhaps received some posthumous vindication in Humphrey's choice as police chief, Ed Ryan, a police officer who was a friend of Arthur Kasherman.
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Arthur Kasherman was buried next to his father in United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery, Richfield, Minnesota.
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The Minneapolis police still have an open homicide file for Arthur Kasherman that is available to the public in Room 31 in City Hall.