Evening star., 1934-07-25
'CrI In Red" Reveals Details
OF Dillinger's Final Hours
Gires Police Full Story of Visit TO Morie.
Purris Says Re,card Winner
Nerer Will Be Named.

was over j saw t1em coming up the
aisle and they called me and said
Come on and got up and walked
out We walked out Of the theater
and went southeast toward my house
When We reached the National Tea
Store a big man pushed me or pulled
me and stepped on my foot and
looked around and said Say. and he
had a gun / heard a shot in front
Of me and looked and saw Dillinger
on the ground and l stood there and
looked. did not know what had
happened. Polly pulled me by the
hand She said Jimmy got shot and
she gave me one pull. There was a
big man with q gun and he said
Just minute. and he left US and we
walked west.
One OF the officers said, Just
minute. just a minute, and he looked
over the crowd and she started to
pull me and We walked west on Lin
coin avenue. south on Sheffield to
Fullerton. and when We reached the
elevated she said. Let's take the ele-
waited, and I said Where and she
said, any place We got on the
elevated and got of at Belmont, and
l said l was going home and she
said Why go home?' and 1 said
wanted TO find out what had hap
pened. | did not know what was
happening. Then We walked on Bel
mont TO Clark and took Clark to Hal
sted and took Halsted and went home
to my house. She was just shaky
and she wanted to get out Of there.
She had a skirt and she slipped that
on, I wanted TO go to the corner, and
she did not want TO go, she was all
nervous. l changed my clothes and
went TO the corner, and every one
was yelling that Dillinger was killed
L did not know what to think
Dillinger! Then l got scared. Then
l went home. She Polly went some
place. She did not go home. She
went to meet that girl that worked
with her. Maxine Dunn. Polly called
me from some place on Wilson ave-
nue.. She was with Maxine. That
was the same night. 1 don't know
how long after the shooting. One
hour, two hours, it seemed like a
year. l did not call the police. When
Polly called she asked me if every
thing was all right. She said she was
afraid to come home. She said it
was John Dillinger"
Detective Frank Slattery, who iden-
tined Mrs. Sage as the girl in red"
said he swas the man with the gun
who attempted to halt Mrs. Sage,
adding that a big man in the crowd
on in "a
Dunn Woman Quizzed.
The Dunn woman, who worked with
Mrs. Keele in a restaurant, was also
questioned by police, but was later
released. She told the investigators
it was Mrs. Keeles picture in Dill
fingers watch.
The mystery as to who shot Dill
linger remained Detective Slattery,
who happened on the death scene
accidentally, said it appeared that
Sergt. Zarkovich and Policeman Glyn
Stretch Of East Chicago were the ones
who fired the shots. Federal Agent
Samuel A. Cowley told the coroner's
jury that the Government men alone
did the shooting.
Melvin Purvis, chief of the Chicago
Federal Bureau of Investigation, de-
cnned to discuss the case.
"Dillfnger is dead and the Dill
linger case is dead" he said. THE
name of any one who gets the reward
or part of it will never be made pub
lie by the Government"
Apparently Dillinger led a free and
easy life in Chicago-buying beer,
playing cards and going to movies.
This was disclosed last night when
police questioned Steve Chilak, 23
year-old son of Mrs Sage.
Chilak said he first met Dilhnger
at his mothers home ebout month
ago and that he was introduced to
him by Mrs. Roy Keele, who is also
known by her maiden name of Polly
Hamilton.
Proved Good Loser.
Polly introduced u.s." Chilak said,
"and he said How are you, Steve?
He was a fine fellow We played
pinochle and he lost, but he wasn't
a bit angry about it.
Then my girl friend and and
he and Polly began going out eve
ningS. We would drink some beer.
eat lunch, see a movie or go to a
dance. He liked the movies best"
1t was Dillinger's custom, he said
always to pay the checks. but he
never flashed" any big money.
Chilak never suspected his new
found friend was Dillinger, but he
recalled, now that Dillinger is dead,
that Dillinger would jump when a
rap came on a door.
But he explained this he said,