![]() By 1936, after escaping from prison, Kid went by the name Thomas Tannen, possibly to keep unwanted police attention off him, or because he wanted to put his life as a Prohibition gangster behind him. Kid was arrested, and was imprisoned for several years. The situation quickly turned heated, with Kid revealing a Tommy gun and opening fire on both Marty and Officer Parker. Parker made arrests of Kid's accomplices, but not before Kid located the individual who had been burning down speakeasies: Edna Strickland. Marty under his alias convinced Trixie to turn on Tannen by revealing unpaid taxes in records, that she in turn handed to Officer Danny Parker. Kid opened a secret passageway by turning the knob of the roulette wheel. Matches came to Kid with a stick of dynamite that he had found along with many others around the speakeasy. Business was smooth, until the reappearance of Marty in disguise as a gang member of the Sacramento Mob. His girlfriend, Trixie Trotter would sing on the stage in the speakeasy, with Cue Ball at the piano, Matches guarding the door, Zane working the bar, and a croupier running gambling. ![]() Two months later, Tannen opened his underground speakeasy, El Kid, beneath the Sisters of Mercy Soup Kitchen. Kid Tannen ran a speakeasy business that was destroyed in an explosion in May or June of 1931 by Edna Strickland. In 1928, Arthur McFly started working for him and he became a mobboss and got number of his gang to his dirty work for him. ![]() Kid Tannen was born in 1909 to "Mugsy" Tannen and his mother Gertrude Tannen in Hill Valley, California, it's implied that Kid learned how to greedy from his mother Gertrude Tannen, and how to be a dangerous moboss from his father "Mugsy" Tannen. ![]()
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