The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-23
TRAIL OF DEATH
 FOLLOWED HIM
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told a parole board nine years later. Bitterness never left him.
 Starts of Career.
 Tn May, 1883, he was released from prison and four months later was the "big time' criminal of his mbition. From then on his career was marked by a trial of blood and daring forays.
 Fourteen men, including five police officers and federal de- partment of justice agent, met death from the blazing guns of his gang or those of authorities engaged ill one of the greatest manhunts since the days of Jesse Jones.
 On Sept. 22, 1893, he was ar- rested at Dayton, O., as the lone bandit who held up three banks and fled with $s2,5O0. Four days later the pals of his prison days 10 of them-made a sensational escape from the Indiana state prison at Michigan City.
 Dillinger engineered the break, smuggling in guns to his friends. .
 Word was flashed to the Ohio jail at Lima where Dillinger was held. But jail held no terror for the escaped convicts intent on lib- erating their leader. Several strode into the jail, killed Sheriff Jesse Sarber and un- locked Dillinger's cell. Then followed raids on police stations at Peru and Auburn, Ind, to obtain guns and ammunition. Then came a half dozen bank rob- berries.
 Once in Chicago he drove through a hall of bullets with a woman at the wheel of his car when police believed they had him trapped. Always there were women along.
 The first of the IA deaths charg- ed to the Hoosier outlaw occurred last Dec. 14 in Chicago when po- lice Sergt. John Shanley tried to capture John Hamilton. quick shooting lieutenant of the gang. | A week later Indiana State Po- llceman Eugene Teague died in a gun battle with the gang at Paris. | III. "i '''
 There was brief lull in the gangs depredations over the holj- oays but on Jan. 5 the gang, with almost unbelievable daring, went 10 East Chicago and robbed a bank Malley.
 A short time later police of The son, Ariz., raiding a small hunsa- low, seized Dillinger and three henchmen-Charles Maklev. Rus- sell Clark and Harry Pierpont- without a shot being fired. Three women also were arrested. Toy Pistol Escape
 Dlllinger was sent to the county Jall at Grown Point, Ind, from which he made his famous "Tov Plstof' escape March 8.
 A raid on police station arsenal at Warsaw, Ind, for more weapons was staged by Dillinger and a new follower, Homer Van Meter. | The Warsaw raid occurred a few days after Dillinger had shot his way out of federal agents tran at St. Paul. Police of St. Paul la ter shot and fatally wounded Eu- Fgene Green, confederate.
 As though mocking the great army Of manhunters dogging his trail Dillinger and various girl friends visited his fathers farm near Mooresville and visited John Hamiltons sister at Sault Ste. Ma rie, Mich.
 On April 22 Dillinger, six of his sangsters and three women were surrounded in roadhouse at Spi- der Lake Wis.
 But only the women were cap- tured. Dillinger and his pals fled atter killing w. Carter Baum, a Iederal agent. Eugene Boiseneau. CCC worker, was killed by a bull let from an officers gun.
 Death Toll Mounts
 Ihe toll Of Dillinger deaths noun ted higher and higher
 Three Esser police characters were slain by Chicago police in a raid on an apartment in search of Dillinger.
 Herbert Youngblood, negro mur- der suspect who escaped from the Crown Point, Ind, jail with Dillin- ger, was killed in a gun battle with police at Port Huron. Mich. Un- dersheriff Charles Kavanaugh was fatally wounded in the affray.
 Tommy Carroll, quick-shooting I Dillinger Henchman, was shot dead by police at Waterloo, Iowa.
 The latest raid of the gang was at South Bend, Ind. Three weeks ago Dillinger and four confeder- ates killed a policeman and wound ed three other persons during a bank robbery there.
 Deaths In His Career | Chicago, July 23.-(UP)-Seven peace officers were killed by John Dillinger's gang before it was crushed by the slaying of John Dillinger himself.
 Dillinger's death brought the to- tai of his gangsters killed to four. 1 Four other persons were slain in the long duel between the law and the lawless.
 1 The death roll:
 Officers killed-Sheriff Jesse Sar- Der, O.; Police Sergeant John Shanley, Chicago; Indiana State policeman Eugene Teague; police man William P. O'Malley, East Chicago; w. Carter Baum, federal agent; undersheriff Charles Kav- anaugh, Port Huron, Mich; police man Howard Wagner, South Bend Ind.
 Gangsters killed-John Dillinger at Chicago; Eugene Green at St Paul; Herbert Youngblood at Port