The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-13
Bandit Dillinger
Robs Police Station
tcontinuel from Page /,

here, where police campaigns
against Dillinger and his gang
have concentrated at various times.
Lucas said he believed that Dill
1inger had been in hiding at the
Longbrake farm preceding his ap-
pearance here. Shortly after Dillin-
ger and his allies raided the Peru
and Auburn, Ind, jails, Longbrake
was sought and found to be absent
from his farm, Lucas said.
Pittenger who made the identi-
fication of the outlaw is an identi-
fication and fingerprint expert.
Dnlinger's return to Indiana, the
scene of his most reckless encoun-
tiers with police, came as federal
department of justice agents linked
him with a syndicate of midwest
bank robbers and kidnapers who
until recently made headquarters
in st Paul.
In Personal Command
1t was believed to be the first
time that he personally took part
in a holdup since escaping from
the Lake County Jail at Crown
Point, hoodwinked a dozen guards
with the aid of q wooden pistol
and drove to freedom with Her
bert Youngblood, a negro murder
suspect, in Sheriff Lillian HoIley's
own automobile.
Recently Dillinger was believed
to have been nearly trapped In a
st Paul apartment when federal
agents came there to investigate
and were driven away with
machine gun fire. The loss of two
- ~ Il h.
lieved to have deprived him Of his
accused of having used to kill Po-
East Chicago, Ind, three months
the exit Of .Dillinger and John
Hamilton from the bank.
Dillinger was awaiting trial for
O'Malley's murder when he es-
capped from Crown Point.
Dillinger Gesture
To-day's Jail raid was typically
Dillinger gesture. After being re-
leased from the Lima, o., jail by
companions whose escape from the
Michigan City, Ind, state peniten-
tiary he had engineered. he fiouted
the state police and law enforce
ment agencies of his home state by
arming his gang from police stores
in Auburn and Peru.
Several midwest bank robberies
were charged to the gang and the
hunt became SO intense that Dill
linger and three allies and their
women companions fled to Tucson,
Ariz, where they were captured.
Russell Clark, Harry Pierpont
and Charles Mackley stood trial in
Lima, o. Pierpont and Mackley
were sentenced to die for the kill
ing of Sheriff Jesse o. Saber, OF
Lima, who fell during the raid In
which Dillinger was freed. Clark
got life imprisonment.
Federal agents, meanwhile, pre-
pared to-day to remove Evelyn
Frachetti, suspected Of being Dill
fingers sweetheart, to st Paul ia
face charges of harboring a GRIM
inal. She is alleged to have been
present in the st Paul apartment
in which Dillinger was nearly trap
ped.
one of his companions Of the
new bandit syndicate. Eugene
Green, died from bullet wounds
suffered In an encounter with fed
eral agents. Hamilton also is &C.
N06Cu VI AhaAoCAs SiAS&6o p0AASS
have q standing order to shoot to
KILL" for the Dillinger gang since
the killing of q Chicago police SER
geant who sought to look over
Hamilton's automobile.
Squad Cars Guard Roads
Indianapolis, April 13-(U.P) -
Squad cars OF the Indiana highway
police moved to block all roads
leading from Warsaw to-day,
where John Dillinger, notorious
gunman, and two companions raid
ed a police station.
Warned by Warsaw police, off,
Gals of the state force drew up a
"battle plan" whereby 1t was hoped
to trap the trio. Cars were con-
yerged on the area in which the
outlaw was believed in flight from
q posse.
The area was believed to be
bounded by Fort Wayne, Logans-
port, Muncie and South Bend.
Policeman Is Proud
4, Warsaw, Ind, April 13-(UP)-
Judd Pittinger, told the United
Press today how he took the muz-
zie of John Dillinger's machine
gun and pointed It into the air. !.
The gun was pointing at Pittin-
gers vitals when he made the bold
but futile effort to capture the ace
outlaw single handed.
The 54-year- night patrolman
patroling the deserted main street
Of this little resort town when he
encountered the marauding des.
perado and companion early to-
day, said that Dillinger called him
"the biggest damn fool ever
saw"
when he took the menacing
muzzle Of the machine gun and
pushed 1t aside he knew that his
assaiiant was the widely-hunted
Dillinger, he said. II recognized
him Immediately" he declared. .
He also described how he at.
tempted to lock Dillingcr and tht
iatter's companion, Homer Var
Meter, Indiana parole violator, II
| u room ut the Warsaw town hal
and police headquarters.
'If there had been q lock on ths
door / would have had Diliingel
and his companion just like that
he explained, swapping his fingers
| AS the officer ran for help, how
ever, Dillinger and Van Metei
| picked up three buliet-proof vest
and two revolvers. jumped into
large blue sedan parked IN from