Evening star., 1934-06-08
PAL Of .D|LL|NGER,
SLAIN, SPURS HUNT
Officers, However, Discount
Dying Mans Words That
He Buried Gangster.

| BY the Associated Press.
WATERLOO, Iowa, June 8.-New
! clues to John Dillinger's where
abouts-alive or .dead-were hunted
today over the backtrail of Tommy
Carroll.
When quick shooting detectives
pumped five bullets into Carroll yes
terday they erased another of the
crime brothers of Dillinger, but their
! gunfire was bit too good, for it
| sealed lips that might have given VAL
liable information about Americas
No. | bad man.
Discount Dying Words.
o. H. Dewey, Federal agent. ques-
toned Carroll before the 38-year-
gunman died, but, so far as he would
say, Carroll had nothing to offer con-
| cerning Dillinger. Officers were even
doubtful for several hours of the
dying mans Identification of himself
as the Tommy Carroll who went
about with Dillinger on forays against
MidWeStern banks Identification was
made positive, however, by finger
prints.
Little credence was placed in un-
intelligible mutterings of Carroll to
the question-is John Dilinger alive
or dead?
Dewey insisted no words could be
distinguished Others said they
thought he had said something like
Il buried him."
1T could mean anything" Dewey
said.
Carrolrs "Wife" Arrested.
With Carroll was Jean Crompton.
Il. She said she was his wife. Police
are holding her She was one of the
three women arrested following Dill
llnger'S escape from the Little Bo-
hemia resort at Mercer, Wis. She
| Claimed she married Carroll week
or 10 days ago in a little town in
Mlchlgan" after a romance which
started in Minneapolis, Mimi, night
club
She recently was released from Jail
at Madison, Wis, on probation after
being sentenced to years imprison-
ment on charge of harboring Dill
llnger. Both she and Carroll were
IN the Mercer, Wis, road house when
| the Dllllnger mobSmen shot their way
out of a Federal trap April %
| Although the Crompton girl claimed
she was Mrs. Carroll, authorities
were advised the gangster's widow is
Viola Carroll of st. Paul, MINI.
| Shot Down in Street.
Accused of several Midwestern bank
robberies, at least two slayings and a
! mounting list of crimes reported by
Midwestern authorities. Carroll was
| shot down about half block from
the local police station.
Detectives Emil Steffen and P. E.
Walker had been watching CAROLS
car, acting on tip from garage
| mechanic. AS the officers sought to
arrest him Carroll struggled with
Walker and was the target for the
shots of the two officers as he broke
away.
Through her tears, Mrs. Viola Car
roll told of her marriage in East ST
Louis in November, 1925. She has
been separated from him, she said
since July IA, 1882.
Il don't care what anybody says or
what Tommy has DONE" she sobbed
he was the finest fellow in the world
He was always good to me, and if he
left me because he was crazy over
another girl, why that's all there was
to it."
Mrs. Carroll was bitter toward the
Crompton woman.
Threatens Other Woman.
"I know what happened" she de-
clared. They just turned that wom-
an loose so that she would get Tommy
and lead him into police trap. II
ever see her it will be just too bad
for her"
Mrs. Carroll said she had net seen
her husband since Thanksgiving
| 1882. She wired authorities and
made arrangements for the funeral in
st. Paul.
The death of Carroll brought to IA
the total lives cost either by guns OF
the Dillinger gang or by police seek
| ipo IN anprphend the mob