The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
Newest Report About
Outlaw Is Given
in Letter.
JOHN 80 TODAY
Stage Offers to Father
Are Branded as
Bunk
BN United Press

By United Press
GALLON, O., June %.
John Dillinger still lives, ac-
cording to his sister, Mrs.
Audrey Hancock, haywood,
Ind, who has written Mrs.
Eulalia Calender, a friend
here, that 1--WE have heard
from John and he is WE'LL
Reports have been recurrent since
the Indiana desperate shot his way
from trap set by federal officers
at Wisconsin resort, that he may
have died of wounds.
I'VE do not know where John is
hiding" Mrs. Hancock wrote. ST
wish did know. We have so much
mail for him. Today, Friday, June
%, is his 32hd birthday"
It don't believe he would sur
render. He doesn't trust any one.''
Mrs. Hancock wrote.
Dillinger'S sister expressed dis
trust of offers reported to have been
made to the gangster's father to app
pear in vaudeville and at a Coney
Island resort.
"All this bunk about wanting dad
to go on the stage is only another
federal trap" she wrote her friend
here. If they can't catch him one
way, they will try another"
Mrs. Calender, in revealing con-
tents of the letter, said she had
asked Joseph w. STARTS, Dayton at
torney, to petition Governor George
White of Ohio to commute death
sentences of Harry Pierpont and
Charles Makley, members of Dillin-
gers gang.
The two men were sentenced on
conviction of Staying Sheriff Jesse
L. Sarber, at Lima, O., in liberating
Dillinger from Jail.
Mr.. STARTS was said by Mrs. Cali
lender to have sent a plea to the
Governor for the doomed men, ask
ing interceSsion on points of legal
ity." The Lima district appeals
court recently denied the men Mew
trial. They are sentenced to die in
July.
Mrs. Audrey Hancock, haywood.
today denied to The Times that she
had received a letter from her
brother, John Dillinger, notorious
public enemy, but added that 'slae
has so many friends that if he were
injured or dead they would notify
us"
Mrs. Hancock, who reared Dill
niger as a child, today inserted a
classified advertisement in The
Times in which she extended BIRTH
day greetings to Dillinger. It was
explained that the notorious outlaw
scans Indianapolis newspapers
closely. The greeting read:
Birthday greetings TO my dar-
ling brother, John Dillinger, on his
31st birthday. Wherever he may
be, I hope he will read this mes
sage"
1t was signed Audrey Han
cock"
He Likes His Uncle
Stalwart, bronzed Norman Ham
cock, her son, and 21-year- old
nephew of Dillinger, said today he
would "just as soon" be with Dillin-
ger as sitting around home.
The nephew admitted he had
travelled with Dillinger several times
since Dillinger had been a fugitive.
He added that he felt he was in
no danger when he was with his
uncle, and commented that Dillin-
ger apparently took no particular
precautions against being spotted by
police.
Mrs. Hancock revealed that hun
dreds of letters from all parts of
the world have been received at her
home for Dillinger, some upholding
him and others condemning him.
Three Proposals a Day!
AS many as three or four pro.
posals have been received in his
mail in one day, she said.
The sister said the letters have
been torn up and burned. She de-
scribes Evelyn Freschetti, Dillinger's
sweetheart, also known as Ann
Martin, who was arrested several
weeks ago in Minneapolis, as very
considerate, kind, and not at all the
type usually considered a gun moII.'
John Dillinger ST., father of the
outlaw, said his son was 80 today. 3