The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-23
Bandits Smashed By
 Circle or Truilers
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Then three women, holding their hands high above their heads, came out the door.
 They reported that Dillinger had fled at 3 a. m.
 The agents searched the building but found no one else.
 Some Broke Away Early
 Although officers believed Dill finger and three others escaped while federal agents were caring for the wounded after the a. m. battle, at least two members of the gang broke to freedom before mid night.
 The pair had forced youth em- ployed at the lodge to drive them to Park Falls, where they com mandeered another automobile and fled southward. This car was last seen at Antigo, Wis. speeding south ward.
 The pair was able to escape be- cause of a misfire in the federal plans. A score of agents arrived at the lodge about 10 D. m. They sur rounded the place and prepared to enter.
 At this point Boiseneau, John Hoffman and John Morris, all C. c. c. camp members, came out of the lodge after drinking beer there.
 The federal agents challenged the youths and they refused to stop their automobile.
 Machine gun bullets ripped into their car. killing Boiseneau and wounding the other two.
 While the agents pursued the wildly careening automobile, two members of the Dillinger gang wer cable to escape into the woods at this time.
 Bandit Guns Belch Flame
 When the agents again concen- trated on the lodge they found enough Dillinger gang guns fam ing at them to force a retirement. Baum was found to be fatally shot and Carl Christiansen. Spider Lake constable, was wounded critically.
 The officers sent the wounded men to the Ironwood, Mich, hos- pital and spread an alarm for the pair of bandits who escaped. Throughout this and surrounding counties, resort keepers, farmers and their hired men were depu- tized and armed. Roads were blocked off and endorsements seHt to the lOdBe.
 Sheriff Thomas McGregor of Eagle River, and the federal agents led the second sally against the lodge at 2:30 a. m. Again fed eral agents were struck and as far | stcrs went unscathed. Again the | agents were forced to retire.
 After the third raid, when it was found that the principal quar- " had vanished, skirmish lines | were formed and scores of men were sent toward Manitowish.
 Federal agents brought the three | women to Eagle River for aues- tioning.
 The trap was believed to have resulted from the intensive cam paign department of justice agents have been waging to catch the | desperado. Half a dozen federal agents were reported to have ap- peared here Sunday morning and | to hay driven to the lodge.
 The building was known to be owned by Emil Wanctka. former Chicago night club owner and said tC be an intimate of Frankie Lake | and other Chicago bootleggers. It was believed that the agents might | idNC iodHd lIiIiHbGI Q ilulhR DlhCc through questioning of Evelyn | Freschetti. his former sweetheart, who was being held in St Paul or from sister of John Hamilton, with whom the outlaws were known to have been staying until | last Thursday.
 With Dillinger, it was believed, were Hamilton. Joseph Fox. Hom- CT Van Meter and possibly mem bers of St Paul gang of bank | robbers and kidnapers. Some of these men were wanted for ques- | tioning in the Kidnapping of Ed ward c. Bremen of St Paul.
 Little Bohemia lodge is in the northern part of the state near the boundary between Wisconsin and Michigan. It is a sparsely settled region of lakes and rivers and woods. Almost all of the inhab- itants of the region are engaged in resort business.
 List of Victims
 The dead were:
 Eugene Boiseneau, Civilian Con- servation Corps worker.
 W. Carter Baum, federal agent from Chicago!
 Those wounded were:
 A federal agent named Newman:
 Carl Christiansen, Spider Lake constable:
 John Hoffman. CCC worker: z
 John Morris, eco worker.
 Newman and Christiansen were betting treated at the Grand View hospital at Ironwood. Mich. for critical wounds.
 Official versions of the number killed in the fighting confiicted. Two were known slain. Sheriff Thomas McGregor said four were dead. His brother, Undersheriff D. A. McGregor, placed the number of dead at three and the wounded at eight.
 His Nightmare Career
 Grown Point, Ind, April ,23-- fUP)-John DIllinger. in a night mare career of ruthless murder and banditry, had lived just seven months today as the most desper- ate criminal of modern times and one of the most notorious of all time
 Chicago's gangsters. who prefer shots in the back to the neck or onthing battles against odds which Dillinger seems to like, were for- gotten during months in which po- lice of ali sorts and federal agents of the post office and justice de- partmepts pursued him through the middle west.
 It was on last September 23 that Dillinger, small time crook from Mooresviile, Ind, stepped onto the national stEge of crime by arrang-