The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-23
JOHN DILLINCER
SHOT TO DEATH

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titled at the hospital as Mrs.
Alta Natelsky and Miss
Theresa Paulus, 20, both of
Chicago.
Notorious Bank Robber
Dillinger was to be tried March
IL for the murder of policeman
in the robbery of a bank at East
Chicago, Ind.
Dillinger was one of the most
notorious bank robbers and killers
of the nation.
! He escaped last summer at
Lima, Ohio, in which outbreak the
sheriff was killed. He was credit
ed with engineering wholesale
break from the Indiana peniten-
tiary when 10 convicts escaped.
Dillinger was paroled in June,
1888, from the Indiana state pris-
on to which he had been sentenc-
ed for a store robbery in Moores-
vile, Ind.
He was arrested in Dayton, o.,
Sept. %, 1888, in the home of a
! sister of James jenkins, who, on
Sept. 26, escaped with nine others
from Michigan City, Ind, prison.
When Dillinger was arrested in
Dayton he was found to possess
maps of the country surrounding
Michigan City, Ind, maps show
ing the, fastest way out of several
other cities in Indiana and Ohio.
In his room were four pistols,
! a rifle, a shotgun. two suitcases
full of ammunition and several
boxes of roofing tacks. Police in
| Indiana and Ohio recently had
had trouble trouble pursuing ban
dit cars because of roofing tacks
being scattered by the fugitives
during the chase. He had $2,604
in new currency with him.
Walks Out of Escape Proof" Jail
On March 3, 1884, Dillinger,
who was awaiting trial for muir
der, walked out of the escape
proof" Lake county jail with a
negro prisoner, each armed with a
machine gun.
| Dillinger's escape from the pris-
on in charge of Sheriff Lillian
Holley, apparently climaxed weeks
of waiting and planning during
which she whitfield a dummy pistol
out of the wood in his cell.
He used the pistol to threaten
a guard and forced him to unlock
the first floor cell in which Dill
linger and four other prisoners
were locked.
/ Outside the cell, Dillinger and
his companion went to the war
denis office, seized two machine
guns, and departed with Deputy
Sheriff George Blunt as hostage.
They took Blunt to a nearby
garage, stole an automobile and
4 forced Edward Sager, an attend
ant, to accompany them.
/ They headed north toward Gary
and Chicago.
! Mrs. Holley, who had declared
Dillinger would never escape
fom her jail, Immediately order
ed all entrances of the Jail locked
and guards posted about the build
+ ing. o.
! Dillinger forced all four pris-
oners in the cell to accompany
him. but three Of them willingly
gave up to deputies after they
reached the street.
Guarded Day and Night
! Most elaborate precautions had
been taken to guard Dillinger day
and night since he was returned
from Tucson, Arizona.
Mrs. Holley had provided addi-
tional guards after an airplane was
seen lowering over the Jail.
| Two hours after the escape,
Dillinger released at Peotone, H.
linois, two men hostages. The es-
cape was one of the most daring
on record.
Mrs. Holley, upon learning of
Dillnger's escape from the Jail,
became hysterical, Immediately
telephoning police at nearby Gary
"send all police and guns you got
-Dillinger's LOOSE" she shrieked.
Since Dillinger's daring escape
: from Mrs. Holley's Jail he has been
reported seen all over the country
at once or at different times. A
few times the police almost had
him within their grasp, but Dill
, linger's luck was running good
rand always escaped.
Many robberies and killings
have been credited to him but as
far as hearing "confession"
from Dillinger's lips, well-dead
men never talk.
Identified In Many RObberies
At Dayton he was identified by
victims in the following robberies:
! Twenty-one thousand dollar
hOIdup of the Massachusetts Ave-
nue. bank at indianapolis.
Thirty-five thousand dollar
holdup of the New Carlisle, Ohio,