The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-23
BY BASIL GALLAGHER
Times Stan Writer


Not Holding Any One
I'm not holding any one" Purvis
commented
He refused TO confirm apparently
authentic rumOrs from police that
the woman who put Dillinger on
the spot and caused his body 10 be
riddled with bullets was seeking to
leave this country and go to
Canada.
In the meantime. one report that
gained credence as to the manner
in which the end came for public
enemy No. was this:
Diuinger is believed to have met
the woman in a north side cabaret.
She is said to have loved him in the
easy fashion of a lady Of the eve
ming.
Police Discover Affair
Three East Chicago police. life
long friends of Detective Pat O'Mal-
ley, who was slain by Dillinger in a
bank robbery, learned of the affair.
One of the men. it is said, became
acquainted with the girl as she sang
in a cabaret. He made love to her
and she talked-too much.
She named her gangster lover as
''Dillinger."
The East Chicago patrolman, it Is
said, played on her vanity and told
her of the large amount of reward
money for Dillinger'S arrest.
Going to Movie
Then. il was said. she met her
copper" sweetheart and told him
that she and Dillinger we're TO go
to the Biograph theater to see
Manhattan Melodrama" last night.
III wear red. so you'll know me"
she is believed to have told the pa
trOlman.
The Sunday night date of the ma
ions most famous public enemy, one
of thousands of Sunday night dates
in Chicago, became the property Of
federal agents.
Woman Disappears
DiHinger and the woman in red"
walked from the theater. They took
several steps and passed within three
feet of PurviS.
PurviS signaled his agents. Two
of them opened fire on Public
Enemy No. l.
The woman in red" disappeared
in the crowd.
Morgue Is Surrounded
The city mOrgue. where Dill
fingers body lay nude, was sur
rounded today by a mob of 1000
morbid ChicagOans whose comments
ranged from praise to such remarks
as lets tear his body They
sweltered in the sun in their effort
to view the much publicized gang
ster.
AS the crowd Swelled hourly. a
police Gordon was thrown about the
building and only the nobility of
the official family of Chicago. alder
men and prominent politicians with
a few celebrities, we're admitted to
view Dillinger.
III give one thousand dollars for
his shirt" offered one shouting
voice from the crowd.
Offers for Bricks
At the scene of the tragedy.
offers of $40 each for the alley
bricks we're made.
Public enemy No. became
corpse No .1i6 as far as the morgue
tag was concerned. The tag num-
bered him as the 1l6th death of
the week IN Chicago.
In the vernacular of the half
world where he lived, Dillinger was
on his ~upperS."
The cheap shoes he wore were
badly worn. His socks were not
those Of a nattily dressed sport, but
rather cheap hose that could De
purchased at a bargain counter IN
a haberdaShery.
Nails Well Manicured
His shirt was Of cheap make.
The dandy in the man was seen
by mOrgue attendants as they point
co out his well-manicured finger
and toe nails.
The lifted face. which has sent
Chicago detectives to Indiana in a
search for an underworld doctor.
was SCARED on both cheeks from
the remolding Of the nose and skin
eraSure Of one scar by the physi-
clan.
His body was the dead-white Of
man who had spent hours behind
blinds Of apartments peering into
the street for patrolmen and not
that OF a lake bather.
Smith Views Body
Captain Dallas Smith. Tucson po-
lice officer. who aided in DilingerS
capture in Arizona. was one of the
many who viewed Dillinger's body in
the morgue.
he has been in Chicago since the
Crown Point escape. March 3. aid
ing police and federal agents.
Purvis denied that the picture
found in the watch case of Dillin-
ger was that OF Evelyn FreSchette.
gang moll and sweetheart Of the
dead man.
He believed il was that OF Mary
Longacre Of Cincinnati. O., sister of
James jenkins. member of the
Dillinger mob who was slain in
Brown county. Indiana.