The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-31
DTLLINGER'S DILEMMA
BY ROBERT FORSYTHE

The scramble for the prisoners
t Tucson was in the nature Of a j
ane rush. States fell all over
ne another for the honor of try
ng the interesting gentlemen.
'ierpont, Makley and Clark were
urned over to Ohio. Dillinger
vent to Crown Point. Ind, which
,oasted not only Of the finest Jail
N the country, but of a woman
sheriff, Mrs. Lillian Holley, who
will ever live to regret that she
posed with Mr.. Dillinger in the
attitude of sweet understanding. !
In two months Mr.. Dillinger was
free again, having walked out Of
he Crown Point bastille in the full
light of day. The original stories
had him doing it with wooden
pistol which he had carved from
a broom and which had amply in
Inundated the various officials how
erinR over machine guns, gas
bombs, bullet proof vests and
French 75's. Later reports are to
the effect that Mr.. Dillinger was
lavish with his unearned incre-
ment and had no more difficulty
leaving Crown Point than he would
have leaving Scarsdale for an APP
uointment in the Grand Central
area.
The escape was a matter of such
sensation that the London Times
correspondent sent a thousand
words to show that nothing of the
sort could happen in the Little
Isle. 1t was then also that the
humor began to develop in its more
delightful form. With Thousands
or at least millions of police off
GERS, flatfeet, private dicks, state
police, amateur sleuths and fedora
agents looking for him, Mr.. Dillin
ger went back home to Moores-
vile and spent two days with HI
. father. He sent the car down t.
a garage to be CREASED, stopped i
at the barber shop and said hell
to the fellows and left when he ha
, done all his brands. Hearing ths
: the Warsaw, Ind, police had tn
finest collection of defense wes
: pons in the land, Dillinger went u
a and relieved them of their treas
+ ures. Surrounded in a flat wit
I one of his various lady friends, /
escaped by simply walking out II
n back door and driving away. 4
: Little Bohemia, the resort in Wi
:. consin, he shot his way free. SIM
! that time, weeks ago, there is
q trace of him.
4, There is no way for Dillinger
o turn back now, although his frien
a in Mooresville have made the
a fort to find one. Even after t
le killings at Little Bohemia, whe
i the country was reused to a pit
# of fury at Dillinger, petition W
n circulated in Mooresville and l.
E. dianapolis-and had hundreds
is signers-asking Governor Menu
I'd to grant amnesty to Dillinger If
ry surrenders and promises to be go
r, in the future. This seems sta
Id ling as the fact that Dillinger,
so most hum ed man in history, COZ
lg have been two days in his hol
ne town without police being Gale
ne The truth is that Indiana is c
Gu rupt from top to bottom. The
70 lice force has been too conceI
"a with breaking the strike at t
eu Real Silk Hosiery Co. to wol
I'm about Dillinger. We report this
~ literal fact. The ramificati'
I'd Of the Dillinger affair extend in
I directions and may end in the g
'ei ernor's office. The escape fro
.er Crown Point, with it's ludicrc
y tale of the wooden pistol, and
ey break fro mMichigan City W
'u palpably arranged with the C
nivance of officers in the inst
he tions.
no 1t must be a point of some c
III Germ to the professional patriots
ur- realize that the crooks of the \
er die West are not Wops; Pola
md or Jews. There are the Barr
est and Bankers and Pretty Boy Flo
ow of Texas and Oklahoma, the Tu
lrt. of Minnesota, the Dillingers /;
yer Pierponts of Indiana-all natl
nee born.
a Dillinger is not stupid. Pi
cen pont is a brilliant man. 7
vas know they have nothing but d.
ana to expect in the end and yet
ran