Imperial Valley press., 1934-01-31
.D|[L|NCER IN
INDIANA JAIL
Desperate Claims He Was Civ
en- Raw Deal By Action Of
Arizona Court.
BY LELAND L. CHESLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright. 1884, BY United Press
CROWN POINT, Ind, Jan. 81
John Dillinger. "kill crazy Indi-
ana desperado. today clung to a
vanishing hope for one more
chance" to shoot his way out of a
tight place, this time the Lake
county Jail.
Under the muzzles of Sub-mach-
inc and riot guns, Dillinger sat in a
cell, awaiting trial on charges OF
numbering Policeman William P.
o 'Malley of East Chicago.
Mrs. Lillian Holley, Lake county S
woman sheriff, took elaborate pre-
cautions against affording Dillin-
ger another opportunity to shoot it
out. The sought outlaw was
placed in her charge after he had
new tight place, this time the Lake
Tucson, Ariz., where he was captur-
ed.
Dillinger entered the Jail with
one regret, that he had been un-
able to 'shoot it out' with Tucson
police.
"They got me too quick. I
couldn't use a pistol that was on
the dresser against gang of cops
with sub-machine guns,' Dillinger
complained. ~ had a Tommy gun
in my grip but that didn't do me
much good when they took me by
Storm
Had To Have Odds
Indiana authorities charged that
in the past, Dillinger has shot it
out with police but had all the ad-
vantages such as a bullet proof vest,
machine gun and equally we'll
armed companions behind him. 1t
was just such a shooting, the ma
chine cunning of Policeman Will
liam P. O'Malley in East Chicago,
that will be the basis for murder
charges against Dillinger If con-
victed he may be electrocuted.
Although glum and hostile at the
beginning of this trip-when he was
whisked out of Arizona few hours
before habeas corpus proceedings
could halt his removal-Dillinger
later appeared more jovial.
~ guess my only bad habit is
robbing banks.'' Dillinger said. 81
smoke very little and don't drink
much.'
Dillinger said he would "shoot
it out' with officers "if had
half chance
The prisoner insisted that he was
not guilty of "half the crimes
they we pinned on me during the
past three months.' Enroute here
he insisted that he had not been
given a fair chance to obtain his
release on a habeas corpus writ in
Arizona. 81 got raw DEAL" he
said. es
TUCUMCARI, N. NJ, Jan. 81.
| U.P)-Heavily guarded by Indiana
polls and Indiana state officers,
Charles Makley Russell Clark and
Harry Pierpont, members of the
John Dillinger gang of midwest
bank robbers, passed through here
at a. m. today enroute to Indiana.
Pierpont was accompanied by Mary
Kinder, his common law wife.
Makley met a group of local Off
GERS and newSpapermen with the
customary western greeting as the
quartet swung down from the Rock
Island train.
Glad to meet you, pardner," he
grinned.
Pierpont snapped meanly, "Well,
I'm not
Capt. Matt Leach of the Indiana
state police and his assistants MAIN
tained constant vigil against a de-
livery attempt by John Hamilton or
others of the gang still at liberty.
Since the capture of Dillinger, the
four enroute to Indiana and two
women since released at Tucson, re-
ports that Hamilton was planning
their rescue were frequent. Rumor
said that Hamilton and two auto
mobile loads of gangsters left In
diana several days ago to effect re-
lease Of their friends.