The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-28
TlUo Federal Agents
 Are Shot To Death
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identified as leader of last nights murderers.
 Whispering few sobblng words before an emergency opera tion for two bullet wounds in his abdomen, Cowley said he was cer- tain that one had been Nelson. Cowley regained consciousness only for a moment after the eper- ation in the Sherman hospital in Elgin. Melvin Purvis, chief fed- eral agent in the Chicago district. was able to say only that Baby Face" Nelson was the man who killed Hollis. We think woman with him was his wife. We won't know who the second man was" Entire Force Mobilized Under direction of J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal divis- ion of Investigation, the entire fderal force in the middle west was mobilized to run the killers to earth. From Washington, Hoover sent Inspector H. H. Clegg, chief among those who trapped Richard Bruno Hauptman in the Lind- bergh Kidnapping ease, to take charge of the Nelson search. Every l agent available was sent out onto the roads of northern Illinois or assigned to search through under world hideeuts.
 | Only "A years old, Nelson is clas- sified as the most desperate crtm- inal at large in the United States. He is the only desperado for whom 1 a federal reward is outstanding. Both Cowley and Hollis were among federal agents who trapped and killed Nelson's chief, Dillinger. The federal agent who fired the shots that ended Dillinger's life is not known, but 1t could have been either Cowley or Hollis.
 Cowley has been in charge of the search for Nelson for months. Cowley Working on Tip For the last six weeks Cowley worked on a tip that the last im- portant mmber of Dillinger's gang | had a hideout about 40 miles west of Chicago. With eight men cir culating quietly through the re- zion, he had learned the license number of Baby Faces" car. Yesterday he and Hollis, one Of | the youngest of federal agents, were returning through Harrington | to Chicago after a day of routine investigation. :.
 Purvis believed they recognized Nelson in a passing car. Possibly they noted first that license num- bers on the automobile were the ones for which they had been searching. At any rate witnesses saw Cowley driving a departmental Hudson sedan and give chase to Ford sedan. When the chase ap- preached. the Harrington City Park, on the edge of the suburb, the two cars were travelling approximately | 70 miles an hour.
 Patrolman Heard Duel William Gallagher, state high way patrolman, saw the chase ap- preaching while buying gasoline in a filling station. His account of the tragic denouement was the most lucid available.
 q heard a roar of motors down the road and then a burst of shots" he said. "I think the officers fired first but the men In the first car shot right back. |.
 "About a thousand feet west of the filling station the Ford-the car in front slammed on tue brakes and skidded into driveway Into North Side Park. The Hud- son ran past nearly 500 feet bee fore it stopped sliding.
 1.-TWO men in the second eeF started firing on two men and q woman in the first car. The wo. man Jumped out and diced into q ditch covered over with tall bFaen' Her men fl0pped behind their car. One of them had a machine sun and one q aholgun ~~ and heH