The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-30
SHOOT T0-KILL' ORDER
IS ISSUED IN US. AGENTS.
HUNT FOR NELSON'S WIFE
Federal Men Stay on
Search as Inquest Is Held
for Baby Face.
SISTER STAR WITNESS
Knew He Was Doomed to
Violent End, She Says
in Testimony.
By United Press

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CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-Fed-
eral agents seeking to avenge
the loss of three of their fell
lows killed by George (Baby
Face Nelson, conducted a
"shoot-to-kill search for his
21-year-old wife and a gang
ster companion today while a
coroner's jury investigated
the death of Nelson himself.
The jury returned a verdict of
justifiable homicide
The slain outlaws 26-year-o
sister, Mrs. Juliette Fitzsimmons,
testified at the inquest that more
than six months ago both Nelson
and his wife had accepted the idea
that eventually he would die like
his leader, John Dillinger, and eight
others of Dillinger's gang who fell
before him.
He knew it would come" ex-
claimed the young mother who still
things her brother was clever. and
a good kid" Helen knew it, too, but
she chose to go with him because
that's where she thought she be-
longed.'
Agreed on Undertaken
She and the girl wife sought by
hundreds of venegeful men as one
of the nations first public enemies
agreed last spring in Madison,
Wis, on an undertaken to be called
when Nelson finally was killed, Mrs.
Fitzsimmons said.
Clad attractively in a pert black
hat and ur-collared black coat re-
lleved by white silk scarf, Mrs.
Fltzsimmons dominated the inquest
by her hostility toward the deputy
coroners who Intercepted her.
Police Chief AXel Stofer of Niles
Center reconstructed the last cpl
sode in Nelson's life as the Jury
stood, in a crowded morgue over the
body of the bandit.
Not Disposed to Mercy
Stofer said he and other police
were certain that either Nelson's
wife or the man with whom he
killed two federal agents Tuesday
near Darlington Ill, watched from
some place of concealment while
police and government officers
searched lonely suburban prairie
for Nelson's body.
Samuel P. Crowley and Herman
E. Hollis lost their lives in Nelson's
last stand. Previously, Nelson had
been charged with killing Federal
Agent w. Carter Baum in northern
last spring.
The manhunters plainly we're not
disposed to give mercy even to a
if she interferred with their
aim. They had no definite clew to
Identity of her man companion, but
believed him either John Hamilton,
reputed toughest of the Dillinger
gang. or Alvin Karpis, st. Paul
gangster wanted for the kidnapping
Of Edward G. Bremen.
"NelsOn-We Got Him"
At the inquest testimony de-
Teloped indicating Crowley knew
before he dice that his bullets like
wise had wounded Nelson mortally.
John Madala, government agent.
old the coroner's jury that Cowley
rom his hospital bed whispered to
Melvin Purvis:
Nelson We got him"
Madala said fifty bullets, the
Of the machine gun carried
oy Cowley. had been fired when the
yun was found.
The inquest developed the routine
statement that Nelson's death was
,aused by bullet wounds in the abb
iomen."
While the INQUEST was held here
he bodies of Cowley and Hollis
we're placed in state in their respec-
i've home cities of Salt Lake City
md Des Moines, Ia.