Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-30
BANDIT GANG
GIVEN Up To
INDIANA MEN
Court Swaps Habeas Corpus
Hearing For Extradition OF
Dillinger's Comrades.
RUSHED ABOARD S. P. TRAIN
Desperadoes' Efforts To Avoid
Return Foiled By Action Of
Governor Moeur.

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 30. W.P)-
Three henchmen of the John Dill
linger gang of midwest bank rob-
bers and killers today stood before
Superior Judge Fred w. Pickett and
heard their habeas corpus actions
turned into extraditiOn proceedings
in surprise court action here to-
day.
AL in less than 80 minutes the
men who had escaped being spirit
ed out of the Pima county Jail last
night and put aboard a train for
Indiana heard themselves remanded
to the custody of Capt. Matt Leach
of the Indiana state police.
In clock like precision, the three,
Harry "Trigger-Man Pierpont,
Russell Clark and Harry Makley
were whisked from the court room
to the railroad station.
A heavily armed guard accom-
panied them through a crowded
court house after Superior Judge
Pickett had ordered them returned
on eXtradition papers signed last
night by Gov B. B. Moeur of Ari-
Zona.
The habeas corpus proceedings
were filed last night by John L.
Van Buskirk, defense attorney, and
delayed we'll planned move to spir-
it the men from Jail late yesterday.
While thousands milled about
justice court where the gang was
scheduled for arraignment, the men
were taken to superior court Fol-
lowing brief hearing Judge Fic-
kett ordered the men remanded to
Sheriff John Bolton of Pima coun-
ty. In turn they were handed over
TO Matt Leach and his officers.
Leach jumped into the jury box
that held the prisoners and shook
hands with Bolton. After brief
conversation the court room was
cleared. A score of heavily armed
men marched beside the prisoners
to waiting automobiles which took
them to the railroad station.
A crowd of several thousand gath
cred around special prison car
"spotted' in the yards last night.
The train left at 10:55 a. m.
Mary Kinder, sweetheart of Pier
pont was spirited away from Jail
and taken along. The other two
women, Opal Long and Ann Mar
tin, held on 100000 bail will be ar
raigned here next Tuesday.
The party will first be returned to
Indiana and then extradited to
Lima Ohio, where they are wanted
on murder and bank robbery
charges.
The removal of the ganglsnd
members to the Southern Pacific
station was carried out without
hitch, according to Sheriff John
Bolton of Pima county.
"It was impossible for Pierpont or
any other of the gang to slug any
one" Sheriff Bolton said in COM
menting on reports that the "trig.
german" of the mob had tried to
escape. The men were handcuffed
and shackled together with Bolton
leading the parade to the station.
Mary Kinder, sweetheart of Pier
pont, was spirited out of Jail and
taken with the party. The men were
headed for Indiana to be extradited
to Lima, Ohio, where they are want
ed for bank robbery and murder.
The Kinder woman will face char
ges in Indianapolis of aiding and
abetting in the prison break of the
gang members.
Opal Long and Ann Martin, held
in Jail on 100000 bond, will appear
in .JllStice Of the Ppace e " RIld-
longs court at 2 p. m. today where
charges against them are expected
to be dismissed.