Evening star., 1934-11-29
HAMILTON SOUGHT
AS NELSON'S AIDE
IN FATAL GUN DUEL
Agony of Death Marks Face
of Desperate, Lying in
Chicago Morgue.
"BABY FACE" WAS SLAIN
BY BULLETS OF VICTIMS
COMPANION in Last Battle Named
by Some as Hollis-Cowley
Slayer.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 29.-The bull
let-punctured body of Americas No. l
public enemy-George baby Face
Nelson-lay on a Cook County NOR
tuary slab today, while the Govern
ment's war on his kind was pushed
with unabated intensity.
John Hamilton, a lieutenant in the
ruthless band of killers headed by
the late John Dillinger, was the
object of the far-flung drive in the
belief that he was with Nelson when
Nelson was fatally shot in the short,
but furious gun battle that cost the
Government the lives of two Of its
ace investigators near Darlington
Tuesday afternoon.
Hardly had Nelson's body, pierced
by II bullets been picked up from
muddy ditch near suburban Niles
Center yesterday, than the Federal
investigators and police began new
and more extensive hunt for Ham,
ilton. At the same time investiga-
tors hunted Alvin Karpis, already
sought as one of the kidnapers of
Edward G. Bremen, wealthy St. Paul
banker, and as the killer of Arthur
w. Dunlop of West st. Paul, Mimi
Other conjecture by some investiga-
tors was that if Nelson's companion
wasn't Hamilton or karpis, it might
have been Tommy Touhy, leader of
notorious Chicago band of gangsters.
Died of Victims Bullets.
Nelson was killed by the deadly aim
nf Co
Special Agent Herman E. Hollis, both
of whom died without knowing that
their guns had found their mark.
And while the Government men
got" their man. there was none of
the bizarre circumstances that sur
rounded the end of the crime career
of Dillinger. Dillinger was fatally shot
under the glare of the white lights
of a busy North Side street. Nelson's
end found him lying in muddy
ditch. twisted, agonized smile on his
face
Apparently Nelson died as he was
driven madly from the scene of the
encounter with the slain Federal Off
cers-carted away by his male COM
panion and the blond woman believed
to have been Nelson's wife, Mrs,
Helen M. Gillis. A crude cotton clotc
had been wrapped about his body in
an attempt to stop the flow Of blood
from gaping wound in his stomach.
Companions Desert Body.
Unsuccessful in their efforts to ward
off death for their companion in crime,
his accomplices apparently dumped his
body into the ditch and then drove
away, later to abandon the automobile
they had stolen after the Federal Of
ficers had been slain. The car was
found on outskirts Of Winnetka hours
before Nelson's nude body. wrapped in
red green and black blanket, was
found.
A tip from an undertaken, Philip
Sadowski, led to the discovery of the
body. Two mysterious telephone calls
from an unidentified person asked the
mortician to go out and pick up the
body, giving directions as to its loca-
ton. Sadowski notified the Niles Cen
ter police Chief A. C. Stolberg and
two Federal agents made the find after
Chief Stolberg had stumbled upon a
package of blood-stained clothing near
the outskirts of Niles Center.
Nelson, named also as the killer OF
W. Carter Baum, Federal agent shot to
death last April near the Little Bo-
hemia Summer resort at Mercer, Wis.,
and as the slayer of Theodore w. Kid
der of st. Louis Park, suburb of
Minneapolis, was believed by most au-
thorities to have fired some of the