The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-25
MACHINE GUN sings
Song OF DEATH ON
HIGHWAY NNDlANA
Officers Are Found SIumped in
Car With Heads and
necks Riddled
MYSTERY Wells AFFAIR
Undrawn Guns Indicate Pair
Taken by Surprise; Dill
niger Is Blamed
MYSTERY Wells AFFAIR

East Chicago, Ind, May 25.-lR-
Two more police officers are dead
Friday in the bloody game to get
Dillinger."
In this city, where Policeman Will
liam p. O'Malley was slain January
4 by man definitely identified as
John Dillinger, two officers, Martin
O'Brien, A, and Lloyd Mulvihill, %,
were machine-gunned to death late
Thursday night.
There was no clue Friday to the
identity Of the killers. Dillinger,
fugitive from the Crown Point jail
where he was held for trial for the
murder Of O,Malley. was suspected,
but 1t was only q suspicion. The only
two men who might have been able
to say positively as to the identity Of
the killers were the policemen. and
they died instantly.
Policemen Mulvihil and O'Brien,
veteran officers who knew Dillinger
by sight, had been assigned to guard
road along which 1t was believed
Dillinger might travel Thursday night.
The road patrol was established fol-
lowing word from Indianapolis that
man believed to be Dillinger had been
seen there Thursday.
An automobile believed to have
carried four or five men approached
at high speed. The two officers,
travelling in q police squad car, ap-
parently decided to halt the Car and
investigate. sssssyf - -n--
Mystery Shrouds Shooting
Just what happened Is not clear.
The officers bodies were found slump
ed in the front seat Of their car, with
q dozen machine gun slugs in the
neck and head Of each. The attack
must have caught them completely
by surprise, as the pistol of each Of
ficer was still in its holster when the
bodies were folr'!.
A Waterman fer 4 l'acking COM
pany, passing that way about half an
hour after the shooting, discovered
the squad car with Its cargo Of two
dead officers.
Policemen leaned to the theory that
Dillinger or his gang was responsible
for the double murder, but they en-
phasized they had no proof.
The killers car swept on in the d.
rection Of Chicago and police lines
were set up throughout the metropolis
tan area to halt the men, II possible,
before they could bury themselves In
q Chicago hldeout.
Shortly after word Of the double
murder was flashed to police, an au-
tomobile somewhat larger than that
in which the killers were believed to
have been riding was reported seen In
Hammond. Four or five men with
machine guns were seen in the car,
police heard. This led to the belief
that the killers had changed ma
chimes. A search for the car they
apparently abandoned was begun.
Is Sayings Mark Trail
Thirteen deaths already mark the
trail of Dillinger for the eleven month
period in which he has become the
nations most hunted gunman, yet on
~ one Of the Is has been definitely
traceable, even In speculation, to Dill
finger himself. That was the OMal-
ley murder.
OBrien and Mulvihill left the po-
lice station at 1l:l0 o'clock Thurs
day night aware Of the fact that
man resembling Dillinger had been
reported seen In indianapolis.
For weeks the police have believed
that Dillinger and his henchu,en were
hiding out somewhere In the Chicago
area and they cited a. evidence Of
this belief the discovery In Chicago
about three weeks ago OF an aban.
doned car in which he had driven
frolA South st. Paul. Mimi, after
he and his pals had shot their way
out Of . federal trap at the Little
Bohemia resort near Mercer, Wis.
Reports OF his whereabouts at various
other places followed, and his gang
was suspected Of the robbery Of the
Citizens Commercial Bank at Flint,
Mich. MAY 16.