The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-25
D|LLINGER Death
VERSION RELATED
BY GIRL IN RED
One Of Two Women With Outlaw
at Time of Staying Be-
|ieved n. D. Woman

Chicago, July 25.-(R-From the
girl in red" police learned Wednes-
day more about how John Dillinger
walked into the trap that ended with
death his career Of crime.
The girl In red" one Of the two
women who were with the Indiana
outlaw just before he was killed by
federal bullets, was Mrs. Anna Sage.
q, brown-haired and brown-eyed. Po-
lice arrested her Tuesday night ct
her home just around the corner from
the Biograph theatre. out OF which
Dillinger walked unsuspectingly Sun
day night to his death.
Mrs. Sage told police she knew John
Dillinger as Jim Lawrence" and
that he posed as an employe Of the
Chicago board Of trade.
From the girl In red" after long
questioning by the police came the
story Of the last woman .Dillingel
associated with, named by Mrs. Sayt
as Mrs. Roy Keele, 26-year-old divorc-
ed wife Of Gary, Ind, policeman
Of how Dillinger spent his time just
prior to the fatal shooting, and Of
how he said he went to New York
recently ION business trip" He was
also reported to have witnessed Chi
cago baseball game.
But it was not learned whether
Mrs. Sage or Mrs. Keele furnished
the information with which Dillinger
was trapped. Both fled from the
scene Of the shooting, but Mrs. Sage
returned, after changing her red dress
for another. Mrs. Keele declined to
go back to the scene and later went
to her mothers home in Fargo. N. D..
Mrs. Sage said.
Mrs. Keele, Is, was known in Fargo
before her marriage to Roy Keele,
Gary, Ind. one-time policeman, IS
Polly Hamilton, daughter Of Mrs.
Edith M. Hamilton, now q resident Of
Fargo. Mrs. Keele left Fargo last
December, her family said, and her
brother, Ercyl Hamilton Of Fargo.
said nothing had been heard from
her since the Dillinger shooting.
Zip orr stu Secret
Secrecy the government agents
threw around the affair still persist
ed and 1t could not be learned wheth-
er either woman will make any claim
to the $4,000 rewards that hung
over the public enemy's head.
Captain Timothy O'Neil Of the East
Chicago police, who with Sergeant
Martin Zarkovich was among the In
diana officers at the death scene, de-
MED emphatically that Mrs. Sage had
to do with the Dillinger
trap. adding that an underworld char
acter had seen Dillinger and had
given the information to Zarkovich.
"All this talk about . woman IN q
red dress tipping US off to Dillinger's
is untrue" he said.
Captain Thomas Duffy Of the 9hef-
field Avenue police, who with Captain
John Siege questioned Mrs. Sage 1t
length before she was turned over to
the custody Of federal agents Thurs
day night, said he believed that she
had sheltered Dillinger knowingly or
unknowinsly for several weeks. It was
In her apartment, the police said they
that Dillinger and Mrs. Keele
first met.
Mrs. Sage, twice married. and also
known Is Mrs. Anna Miller and Mrs.
Anna Chilak, admitted, the police
said,, that Dillinger had been In her
apartment "three or four evenings"
but denied reports. previously cir
that he had roomed there.
AGrs. Keele, also known by her
maiden name Of Polly Hamilton, kept
with Dilinger, Mrs. Sage
aid, but the hunted outlaw would not
let Mrs. Keele know his telephone
on the pretext he was Z mar
Red man.
The "gtrl In red" told Captain Siege
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