George Anderson (criminal)

George Dutch Anderson was a Danishborn criminal who helped lead an early Prohibitionera gang in the United States from 1919 until the mid1920s. He was considered a mentor to his comrade Gerald Chapman, who was perhaps the most famous bandit of the 1920s.

Anderson was born Ivan Dahl von Teler to a wealthy Danish family circa 1880, Anderson graduated from the University of Uppsala and Heidelberg studying music, literature and several languages before emigrating to the United States around the beginning of the 20th century. Although he attended the University of WisconsinMadison for a time, Anderson eventually dropped out and, by 1907 had begun committing petty thefts. He was in and out of prisons in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin until 1914.

Source: Wikipedia