 The local authorities considered the brothers non-violent until June 2, 1929, when Harry Young and an accomplice murdered Mark Noe, City Marshal of Republic, Missouri, after Noe stopped Young for drunk driving.Harry Young then disappeared with his two brothers, allegedly living under a false name in Texas for two and a half years.The brothers established a grand-scale autotheft ring, later described by the FBI as one of the largest of its kind.