Evening star., 1934-04-23
GOOD
PRIOR TO PAROLE
Released From Penitentiary
in Indiana to Care for
Aged Father.
BY the Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 23.-John
Dillinger. an obscure convict with no
claim to notoriety, was paroled from
| the Indiana Penitentiary last June.
| He had been a good boy" until the
! attempted robbery for which he re-
ceived a 10 to 81 year sentence
friends and officials told the State
Clemency Board.
| They said he was needed at home
'to help care for his aged father"
Gov. Paul v. McNutt granted the
parole and young Dillinger went free
| Six months later the good boy
had become the most hunted des-
| perado in the country.
Blood of several men, including a
number of police officers, splotched
the trail of crime blazed by the Dill
linger gang through Indiana, Illinois
| Ohio. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and
Michigan.
The gang killed, robbed banks, freed
their members from prison and Ail
and raided police stations to get
firearms.
Escaped with Wooden Gun"
Finally, Dillinger and three others
were captured at Tucson, Ariz.
| He was returned to Indiana in irons
and placed in the Lake County Jail.
He didn't stay long. With a
| wooden gun" he made sensational
escape and joined up, SO officers said
with another band of outlaws.
Fourteen killings are charged
against the activities of Dillinger and
his pals, either by the gang itself OF
in connection with the hunt for the
desperado. The most recent were
those of a Department Of Justice
agent and C. C. C. worker near
Mercer, Wis, last night.
Dillinger's first brush with the law
| after his parole came last September
%. He was arrested at Dayton. Ohio
as a suspect in several bank rob-
| berries.
Four days later 10 convicts, sew
eral of them armed, made a daring
escape from Indiana State Prison
| shooting an employe and kidnapping
a sheriff One of the 10 was James
| Jenkins, brother of Mary Longnaker
| at whose home Dillinger had been
captured at Dayton.
Authorities Immediately accused
Dillinger of plotting the escape. Maps
| and drawings found in his possession
strengthened their belief.
Lima Jail Raided.
Dillinger remained in custody in
Ohio. Indiana authorities sought his
| return, but he was turned over to
| the Lima, Ohio, sheriff on a bank
robbery charge.
Then came a spectacular raid on
| the Lima Jail to loose Dillinger A
half dozen Dillinger henchmen freed
| their leader and fled after Staying
Sheriff Jess Sarber
Raids on police station arsenals at
| Peru and Auburn, Ind, followed
Firearms, ammunition and bullet
| proof vests were stolen.
Chicago police tried to trap the
slippery outlaw leader in November
at a doctors Office. But Dillinger
| and woman drove an automobile
through volley of bullets and es-
| capped.
A few days later Harry Copeland
| identified as one of the Lima jail
raiders. was captured in Chicago.
Another death was charged to the
| gang December IA. Detective Sergt
william Stanley was killed in Chi
| cago by a man identified as John
Hamilton, alleged Dillinger confed-
crate.
A week later another officer lost
his life in the manhunt. State Police
man Eugene league was shot down at
Paris, ILL.,, by fellow officer in an
| encounter with Edward Shouse, an
other of the alleged Lima raiders
Shouse was arrested. Officers said he
had been booted out of the Dillinger
gang.
| Officer Slain in Robbery.
| Hilton Crouch, alleged Dillinger
gangster, was nabbed in Chicago De-
| cember 23
Dillinger became wraith-like fig
ure to officers He and his immediate
associates seemed to elude the law
with ease.
Patrick OMalley, an East Chicago
Ind, police officer, was slain January
| Is in bank robbery he tried to frus-
trate. Dillinger was identified as the
killer. He escaped, as usual.
Then, suddenly, Dillinger bobbed
| up at Tucson, AriZ. He was arrested
on January 25, along with Harry Pier
pont, Charles Makley and Russell
Clark, three of the outlaws accused
| of liberating their chief from the
| Lima Jail. Thousands of dollars
machine guns, revolvers and large
quantity of ammunition were found
| in the quartet's possession.
Indiana and Wisconsin fought for
Dillinger's custody. Wisconsin wanted
him for a bank robbery at Racine
Indiana won out and he was rushed
by airplane to the Lake County. Jail
at Crown Point.
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