Evening star., 1934-07-23

armed, 70 make arrests nor to
serve warrants or subpoenas.
They merely were investigators.
at Mankato and two days later the
most hunted criminal was reported to
have dined with his father. John. sr,
at the old homestead near Mooresville,
Ind While the Central States were
combed. he and a coInpa mon raiied
police headquarters at Warsaw. Ind,
selected weapons and went to visit
Hamilton's sister in Michigan.
Reunion In Wisconsin.
The clan then held reunion at the
Little Bohemia Lodge. near Mercer.
Wis. Machine guns we're mounted in
the cupola while dangerous John,
seven OF his subalterns and three of
their paramours revelled. But on the
night of April %, Federal agents sur
rounded the fortress. Shots were fired.
Eugene Boiseneau. a G. c. c. worker.
ran into the cross-fire and was killed.
The gangsters. blasting their way out,
scattered through the woods. The
Government men took after them and
one, w. c. Baum, was shot to death
as he sought TO halt Lester NJ. ellis,
who was known in the underworld as
"Babyface Nelson" -Four others Suf-
fered wounds.
The largest law enforcement army
ever marshaled in the great midland
empire was charged with retaking the
criminals. dead or alive. Death, high
officials pointed out, would obviate the
expense of trials.
The following day, April %, officers
near St. Paul loosed a fusillade at an
automobile bearing Dillinger. They
believed their shots found the target,
for short distance away a blood
stained car was found. But Dillinger
had commandeered another machine
and continued his fight. The latter
car was found, flecked with crimson
stains, in Chicago on May 7.
Again Reported Sighted.
Reports that the arch criminal had
been sighted again flooded the land.
He was reputed to have participated
in the robbery of a bank at Flint,
Mich, on MAJ l6, and to have served
as a look k-out for the band which
looted a Fostoria, Ohio, bank shortly
afterward.
On May "a, the bodies of two East
Chicago patrolmen, Martin O'Brien
and Lloyd Mulvihill. we're found in a
car near East Chicago Mulvihill was
to have been an important witness
against Dillinger in the O'Malley muir
der case.
A brush with police ended in the
death of Tommy Carroll, Dillinger
stalwart, on June at Waterloo, Iowa
His last words were interpreted as
limiting at the demise of his chief
When Albert Reilly was apprehended
at st. Paul on June %. accused of
harboring the fugitive. he also said
Dillinger had died, but the desperado's
father. John, sr., stated in Moores-
vile the following day that letter
received from his son three weeks
earlier contradicted these reports.
Rewards Offered.
The Government on June "a offered
these rewards: $4,000 for Dillinger's
capture, $4,000 for information leading
to his arrest. $1,000 for Nelson's seiz-
ure and 81. 500 for information aiding
his apprehension. The only Federal
charge against Dillinger at the time
was transportation of a stolen car.
A bandit quintet led by Dillinger
stormed the Merchants National Bank
on June 80 at South Bend, Ind. They
made away with $4,000 after firing
promiScuously in the crowded down.
town streets, killing Patrolman Harold
Wagner and wounding four men.
Dillinger began his crime career in
1924 after living normal life in
Mooresville and Indianapolis. With
another youth he attempted to rob
Mooresville resident. He was SEN
fenced to to IA years.
Those who figured with Dillinger
in his early rampages did not fare so
well. Besides Klutas, Youngblood,
and Reilly, these penalties were as
sesSed others who came in contact
with the notorious gunman. Harry
Copeland, 25 years in the Indiana
prison for aiding Dillinger in the rob-
berry OF an Indiana bank; Evelyn FIRE.
chette, 2 years; Beth Green, 10
months: Opal Long, months, and
Jean Crompton and Patricia Cher
rington, a year each for harboring
the most hunted killer, and DR.. Clay
ton E. May, Minneapolis physician,
charged with treating him, 2 years.
Sixteen Deaths.
Sixteen deaths dot the trail of the
mob. The list includes:
October II, 1933-Sheriff Jess Sar-
Der of Allen County. Ohio; slain by
the band in freeing Dillinger from
Jail.
December 14-Police Sergt. w. T.
Stanley of Chicago, killed by man
identified as Dillinger's lieutenant,
John Hamilton.
December 20-Eugene league. In
diana State patrolman. slain in gun
battle at Paris, ILL.,, as Edward Shouse,
Dillinger gangster. was captured.
December 21-Jack Klutas. gang
leader affiliated with Dillinger. slain
by police hunting Dillinger in Chi
cago suburb.
January 14-Policeman William
O'Malley, slain by bank robbers at
East Chicago, Ind. Dillinger was
charged with this crime.
March 16-Herbert Youngblood,
who accompanied Dillinger in the
Crown Point, Ind, jail break; slain
by officers at Port Huron. Mich.
March 16-Undersheriff Charles
Cavanaugh, slain in battle with
Youngblood.
April l1.-Eugene Green, who with
Dillinger shot their way out of a
trap in st. Paul on March 81: died
of gunshot wounds inflicted by Fed
eral agents.
United States Agent Slain.
April 22-W. G. Baum, Federal
agent; slain in battle with Dillinger