Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-26
COURT SETS
HIGH BAIL IN
BANDIT CASE
tCOntiEued From Page ID

fingerprinting. Mark Robbins, iden-
tification expert, Unumped over his
files. There was picture of Dillin-
ger. He compared it with Frank
Sullivan, tourist Sullivan had a
scar on his left wrist; another on
his upper lip, concealed by mus
tache. So had Dillinger. Then the
fingerprints were compared and
Dillinger admitted his identity.
Police handed him back his glass
eS.
You can have them,' Dillinger
said. "They were only for disguise"
u. c. Evans" tourist, was taken
into custody at an automobile camp.
Suave, gentlemanly, scholarly, he
readily agreed to come to the police
station for questioning. Seated in
the office of Chief of Police c. A.
Wollard, he changed character
He whipped out a pistol. Officers
overpowered him. Then he jerked
another weapon from a shoulder
holster but it was knocked from his
hand before he could fire.
Evans was identified as Pier
pont, the trigger-man, most deadly
killer of the gang. No longer the
scholarly gentleman, he sneered
"I'll remember you, and you, and
you!' pointing to the officers in the
room. II can get out of any Jail.
III be back and I'll not forget
From Pierpont the officers took
Fair of torture nippers,' used to
mutilate the flesh of recalcitrant
holdup victims, or to punish
"Squealer.'N
The trigger-man attempted to
swallow a paper. Give it up an
officer commanded. Pierpont was
adamant. Police then applied his
own nippers to the gang mans arm.
He took the paper in his hand, and
another twist of the nippers opened
his clenched fist. The writing was
too blackened to read.
Officer Battles Bandit
Clark was the first to be arrest
ed. Officer Chet Sherman ap-
preached a house Clark had rent
ed. He saw the suspect within on a
divan. Clark same to the door, gun
in hand. Sherman seized the gun.
Clark pulled the officer bodily into
the room. His woman companion
closed the door before the other Of
ficers could enter. Hanging on to the
pistol with a grip which meant his
life, Sherman fought with the gang
ster. Through the living room the
two men struggled.
Clark, much heavier than Sher-
man, jockeyed the officer into a
bedroom, forcing him back down, on
the bed. Sherman clung to the pis-
tol still, forcing the muzzle of the
weapon away from his body
The woman attempted to find an
other pistol under pillow. The
struggling men were over it. The
other officers broke down the door
and the butt of a police pistol des-
cended on Clark's head. His hair
and features a mass of blood, he
was taken to Jail.
The habit of a Tucson fireman OF
reading detective story magazines
led to the arrests, which stand to
net the small town officers some
$35, 900 in rewards.
The gang had luxurious quarters
in the Congress hotel which burned
last week. During the fire one OF
the gang asked John Freeman, city
fireman, to get his bags.
II can't leave the job" Freeman
replied. The gangster gave him $50
and Freeman retrieved the grips.
The next day he recognized the ho-
tel guest as Harry Makey from a
detective magazine picture and in
formed police.
The officers traced the baggage
and the arrests followed.
The Dillinger gang is regarded by
police as the foremost group of rob-
bers, gunmen and killers in the
country. Their records form a page
of the criminal history of the mid
die west.