Evening star., 1934-07-24
Father Accompanies Hearse
on Five.Hour Trip to
MooreSviIIe, Ind.
FUNERAL TO BE HELD
AT SISTERS RESIDENCE
Official Threatens to Throw Out
Corpse as Undertaken Balks
at Delays.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 24.--John Dillinger,
sr.. looked upon his son today for the
first time since the desperate was
slain.
The meeting occurred In an under
taking establishment ON Chicago's
North Side. While a crowd of from
500 TO 800 persons mtlled about out
side, the 70-year-old Indiana farmer
and his other son. Hubert. were left
alone with the desperado's body.
A few minutes later the hearse
carrying the body OF Dillinger left
for the Dillinger home, in Mooresville,
Ind
With tears glistening in his aging
eyes. the elder Dillinger gazed for a
few moments at the bullet-torn face
of his son.
MY boyl"
Holds Back Emotion.
Those were the only words that
escaped his lips as he struggled to
hold back his emotion. Hubert, Johns
half-brother, put an arm around the
old man and led him away.
It was said that the pace of the
hearse would require about flve hours
for the trip TO Mooresville. There at
the farm home It was planned to pre-
pare the body for burial. The funeral
was expected to be held tomorrow at
the home of the slain bandits sister,
Mrs. Audrey Hancock, at haywood, a
suburb OF Indianapolis not far from
the Dillinger homestead.
Body Released From Morgue.
The body was released from the
county morgue just before noon.
While Dillinger, ST., was on his way
to get q needed permit from the cor
oner, @. w. Libal, hearse driver, wait
ed to take possession OF the body.
Finally he exclaimed:
II can't wait around here all this
time. I'm going to drive off,"
you do that" said Deputy Cor
oner Jacob Schewei, land I'll just
dump the body out in the sun. It's
your body and you'll wait for It,"
Coroner David Walsh then tele-
phoned permission TO move the body.
In the coroner's office he had turned
over to the father the clothes and
money found on the desperado's body.
There were the gray trousers, white
shirt. brown necktie, underwear and
shoes, $7.70 in cash, watch and
chain and knife. AS far as known it
was the estate Of the man whose
bank raids netted more than $500, 900.
Cautioned to Keep Money,
Hubert Dillinger was cautioned by
Coroner Walsh not to sped the S77o.
There are plenty of morbid or
curious persons who would pay for
that money and these other items, "
the corner said.
The elder Dillinger demanded his
sons ruby ring, and was told it was
in the keeping OF Melvin Purvis, head
Of the Chicago Office of the Bureau of
Investigation.
Louis McCready, brother of the
undertaken. Ray McCready, explained
the stop at the establishment.
They took some death masks last
night, and that pushed his face out
OF shape and left traces of the mask
on the countenance," he said. TT
will take us about an hour or more to
repair the damage. Wen have to do
some more work before the body is
sent TO haywood"
In contrast to the thousands which
milled around the county morgue for
look at the body of the bank robber,
only few dozen persons gathered at
the undertaking establishment where
the elder Dillinger came to claim the
body of his son.
Federal authorities, meanwhile
kept a guarded secret the name OF
the man, or men, whose pistols felled
Dnlinger as he left a North Side
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