Evening star., 1934-11-30
AGENTS ORDERED
TO SHOW NELSON
WIDOW NO MERCY
Woman Believed to Have
Aided Staying of FederaIs
in Gang Escape.
MAY GET HAMILTON
THROUGH HER CAPTURE
Morgue Closely Watched as Hun
dreds View Body-Cowley
Rites in Utah Sunday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 3O-Find the
woman and show her no quarter!
This was the stern order Federal
agents were under today as they hunt
ed Mrs. Helen Gillis, 94-pound syn
thetic blond widow of George (Baby
Face Nelson, leader Of the rapidly
diminishing remnants OF the gang OF
the late John Dillinger.
Through her capture Federal as
we'll as State, county and city police
hoped to bring to justice John Ham,
ilton, believed to have been with Mel
sons widow when Nelson was fatally
wounded late Tuesday in machine
gun battle at Darlington in which In
spector Samuel P Cowley and Special
Agent Herman Hollis periShed in the
Governments drive against the Ma
tions public enemies.
Mysterious Phone Call.
There was a growing belief among
officials that it was she who was re-
sponsible for a mysterious telephone
call received by Philip Sadowski. an
undertaken, which led Federal officers
to the discovery of Nelson's body, bad
ly punctured by bullets, in ditch near
suburban Niles Center.
sUnless she was at her husbands S
side when he and his companion
pumped machine gun bullets at the
two Federal officers. she would not
have known that Nelson was dead, the
officers said. SadoWski Is Mrs. ellis
family undertaken.
Mrs. Gillis was the former Helen
Wawrzyniak. She is 81 years old and
is the mother of two children, Arlene,
4, who is at the home of Nelson's
mother, Mrs. Mary Gillis, in Chicago,
and Ronald, 5, reported living with
one of Nelson's sisters in Bremerton,
Wash The hunted woman formerly
had brown hair, but is understood to
have bleached it in an attempt to dis
guise herself.
Morgue Closely Watched.
Government agents stood guard at
the county morgue, where nelson S
body lay on the same slab that held
the body Of John Dillinger. They
hoped they might be able to seize the
woman there, believing she might try
to enter the mortuary for one last
glimpse of the slain Nelson, but no
trace of her was found.
Meanwhile, the search for Hamilton
went on unabated. Inspector H. II.
CIegg, who few here from Washing
ton to aid in the investigation OF the
slayings. said the talk of Hamilton
being dead was ''unfounded rumor.'
I'VE are searching for him. he
said. land will continue to do SO
until we have absolute evidence that
he is dead"
Thought Staying Aid.
Meanwhile the Federal agents in
dicated they believed that Mrs. Nell
son. unofficially named as the coun-
trv's first woman public enemy,
crouched near the killers OF the two
Federal officers and reloaded thelr
guns during the firing OF the battle
of Darlington.
The encounter that ended fatally
for Cowlev. Hollis and Nelson was
motivated by a tip from E. P. Gul-
name. chief of the California staH Oh
the Division of Investigation, II was
reported
Guinane was quoted as saying he
expected to ask indictments for q
dozen or more persons charged with
harboring the gangster in the west.
That the man with Nelson in the
harrington affray was John Chase OF
San Francisco was the opinion OF
one Federal agent. The statements
of Guinane gave weight to the theory.
While the search for the gangsters
widow and accomplice went on Mrs.
Cowlev prepared to leave for Salt Lake
City. where the slain Federal agent
will be given civic funeral Sunday In
the assembly hall of the Latter-day
Saints Temple Square. She will ar
rive Saturday.
Says Cowley Lived Work.
Mrs. Cowley said her husband lived
his work. That he died his work, too,
was apparent in her shadowed eyes,
as she sat with Sam. jr months old,
and John Foss Cowley, 3i2 years,
while she granted her first interview
since her gallant husband went grinly
to his death.
Hard-eyed Federal agents stood
about her hotel apartment, bulwarks
against visitors; relatives hovered in
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