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Evening star., 1934-11-29
Nelson Career
Seventh Son of Tanner Be-
gan Life of Crime at
Age of IS

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 29.-Dates OF
moment from the criminal calendar
of George Baby Face Nelson:
December 6, l908-Born. the sew
enth son of Belgian tanner, at 944
California street, Chicago.
l923-Sent to the Illinois State
School for Boys for motor car theft
Paroled twice. but twice returned for
parole violations.
July II, l926-Discharged from
State school.
l92s-Married Helen Wawznak, de-
partment store sales girl.
February 20, 193l-Indicted for rob.
berry Of Hillside Ill) State Bank;
later sentenced to one year TO life
in Joliet Penitentiary.
February II. 1932-Removed from
Joliet to Wheaton, H., to stand triaI
for robbery. Itasca State Bank. He
received another sentence of one yeal
TO life.
February l8. l932-Escaped while
returning to Joliet. cowing guard With
pistol as he was removed from train
to a taxicab. Finding Chicago toe
hot" he reputedly fled to Califor.
MIA and joined liquor-running gang
March. 1933-Returned to Chicago
to join the John Dillinger mob.
| April %. 1934-Slew w. Garter
Baum, Department of Justice agent
to escape from Dillinger hide-ou
near Rhinelander, Wis.
November 27-Wounded fatally II
gun fight with Samuel P Cowle!
and Herman E Hollis, Federal agents
who also were killed
November 28-His body found il
roadside ditch near Niles Center, Ill
Evening star., 1934-11-29

after the case was turned over to the
Department of Justice. Agents con-
sidered that tribute to their rapidly
growing reputation for getting their
man"
A movement to provide compensa-
tion for the families Of agents killed
in the line of duty is expected to gain
force in the next Congress. Senator
King, Democrat, Of Utah, called for
such action yesterday, saying lit is a
frightful thing" to have gangsters
preying on citizens and shooting down
such fine men"
Cummings Shows Emotion.
The announcement of Nelson's end
was made yesterday in an atmosphere
of intense, If subdued. emotion. Only
short time after Attorney General
Cummings said he was ''grieVed be-
yond words" at the deaths of CoWley
and Hollis. he called reporters back
to tell them Nelson's body was found
Make 1t clear that our men shot
him." he said.
J. Edgar Hoover. head of the Di-
vision Of Investigation, also greeted
the news with mixed emotions. I'VE
got the guy he said. but he killed
two of our men first. 1t was two
lives for one"
Nelson's death made the score in
the grim contest between Dillinger
gangsters and law officers nine To
nine. Nine officers. have fallen be-
fore Dillinger gang guns. The law
marked up its score with a combina-
ton of the electric chair and bullets.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
KIDDER is AVENGED
BY NELSON'S DEATH
Minneapolis Salesman's Staying
by Gang Never Fully Elk.
planned by Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, November %
Guns of the Department Of Justice
men have avenged relatives Of Theo-
dore w. Kidder in bringing George
(Baby Face Nelson to the end of
life's trail.
Slightly more than eight months
spanned the slayings of Kidder In
suburban st. Louis Park last March
and the desperate in suburban Chi
cago Tuesday.
Hennepin County authorities blamed
Nelson for Kidder's nocturnal slay-
ing while his wife and mother-ln-laW
sat in the Kidder automobile. Kldder
was paint salesman who sold ammu-
milton as a Sldellne.
Kidder, prior to the Staying. had an
argument with another motorlst and
afterW ards was trailed miles by occu-
pants of the car Three blocks from
home he stopped. apparently to ascer-
tain what the four or five men in the
other car wanted. From the other
automobile three shots blazed forth
and Kidder fell dead
Authorities were unable to ascribe
a motive for the Staying at the time.
but later theorized he had been SELL
ing ammunition to Nelson and his pals
and presumably had failed to make
delivery on one sale and had been
! killed
Evening star., 1934-11-29
Twenties Tough
Turnout to Be Fateful
Days for Enemies
of Society.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, November %
The "twenties" of the month have
been fateful days for criminals.
-Four of the most notorious sanp-
sters killed this year by officers have
died on the twenty-second, two ON
the twenty-third and one was found
dead on the twenty-eighth day of the
month.
The list:
May 23-Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker, killed by officers near Black
Lake, La.
July 22-John Dillinger slain by
detectives as he stepped from a Chi
cago movie house.
August 22-Homer Van Meter. Dill
linger lieutenant, slain by police in
st. Paul.
September 22-CharleS Makley, Dill
linger henchman. killed while at
tempting escape from the Columbus,
Ohio. Penitentiary.
October 22-CharleS (Pretty Boy)
Floyd, slain by police near East Liv-
erpool, Ohio.
November 28-George (Baby Face)
Nelson, found dead from bullet
wounds received In a gun battle with
Federal agents In Q Chicago suburb.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
Family of Nelson
Takes Death Ne,Us
With Marked Cain,
acknowledgements
port; Brother.in.La,u
Curt in Interuie,u.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 29.-The
gray-haired mother of Baby Face"
Nelson was not surprised to learn that
her son had been shot to death.
1T is news Mrs Helen Gillis re-
marked simply, but it is expected
news"
Mrs. Juliette Fitzsimmons. the gang
mans sister. had no statement to add
to the opinion she previously had ad-
vanced:
II they get him, they'll be taking
him to the morgue, not a CELL"
No one in the South Side home
seemed much perturbed.
Robert Fitzsimmons, brother-in-law
of the notorious gunman closed the
interview with:
We'll, we won't have anything more
to say. I've got to shave"
Evening star., 1934-11-29

Little Bohemia Inn, along with two
other Dillinger gang women, but Mel
son. becoming separated from the
other fugitives, fled to the Pacific
Coast. His wife, convicted Of harbor-
ing Dillinger, was placed on proba-
ton and she promptly joined her hus-
band, taking her son along.
In California Nelson found refuge
with bootlegger friend operating in
secure after several weeks that he
ventured back East.
Hoover's men have received lnfor-
nation that late in May and early
in June of this year Nelson rejoined
Dillinger and Van Meter in Chicago
while the latter pair were having
plastic operations performed on their
faces. Nelson did not have his own
features altered. however.
During this short sojourn Nelson Is
reported to have related laughlngly
to Dillinger details of his exploit
in killing Agent Baum.
Nelson was thoroughly frightened
when Dillinger was shot and killed
in Chicago a month later by a Fed
eral squad led by Inspector Samuel
P. Cowley. He fed back to San
Francisco, where the Federal forces
again picked up his trail. Intensive
investigation proceeded in the San
Francisco area during July and
August.
A few weeks later it was established
that Nelson and his wife had left
California and were heading East.
between California and Illinois and
on several occasions hot" leads were
run down-in vain.
Special attention was paid to the
Southern Wisconsin lake section be-
cause of belief that Nelson would find
it convenient to hide there. This
section is within so miles of Chicago,
Nelson's bailiwick. On Tuesday OF
this week Federal agents conducting
search in the vicinity of Lake Como
and Lake Geneva came into possession
of definite information that Nelson
had been in that neighborhood re-
Gently. The license numbers Of Mel
sons car were obtained.
Inspector CoWley. VINO was IN COM
mand of the manhunt. was proceed
ing to Lake Geneva with Agent Her.
man E. Hollis when, purely by chance
he spotted an automobile bearing the
tag numbers of Nelson's car. Two
men and a woman were in the car.
There was a brief race. a screech
Of brakes and tires an exchange of
machine gun fire, and at final price
of three courageous agents, the Gov
ernment had erased another kill
crazy" public enemy.
Evening star., 1934-11-29

to Washington, D. C. They certified
his civil service grades and they we're
nearly perfect. The postmaster told
him there'd be no trouble with those
grades. Why, when they were checking
on accuracy in sorting mail at the
post Office, he had nearly perfect
record.
Then he was graduated and came
home to visit me. He had applied for
the Department of Justice job. He
was only here day and night when
the telegram came saying he'd been
appointed with highest grades.
Dangers unsupported.
That was in 1927. I didn't really
know he had such dangerous job.
When we visited him in Cincinnati
he was in fine Office, End apparently
didn't have to go out like on this
last trip.
But his brother, Byron, visited him
in Detroit and he told Byron a little
the work was. Byron told me. And
one time when he was home I hap
pened to see three revolvers in his
grip when his baby got near it.
only asked him to be sure to keep
the guns out of the baby's reach.
I didn't urge him to leave the work.
because I knew how badly he wanted
to enter law practice. The higher
wages in the more dangerous work
probably was an inducement-he
wanted to save and have money to
start up in business.
He had even bought a lot in a good
residence section and was planning to
build. He bought three cars, while
he was going to school and working
He always could get job, and do the
work well. remember the grocer he
worked for told me he was paying
Herman more than the other clerks,
because he could always depend on
him.
Herman would have been married
seven years Thursday-on Thanks
giving-and they were so happy and
got along SO well.
(Copyright 1884 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lnc)
Evening star., 1934-11-29

Continued From First Page)
shots that killed Cowley and Hollis,
but there was at least one who ex-
pressed contrary belief.
The opinion that it was Nelson's
male companion who killed Cowley
and Hollis, came from Police Commits
sioner Ambrose Brod of Niles Center,
a witness to the duel He said the
agents guns were working faster than
Nelson's and that the Baby Face"
so called because of his cherubic ex-
preston, had fallen before the officers
dropped mortally wounded.
Nelson's demise, like that OF Dill
linger, disclosed that he had grown a
mustache and attempted to hide his
identity by using acid to obliterate his
finger prints, but they were easily
identified.
From the time he was sentenced to
the s.. Charles, Ill, school for an auto
theft at the age of IA, Nelson's career
of crime hurtled swiftly through petty
offenses, robbery, bank banditry and
murder, to end in death in lonely
ditch.
In the brief span of II years his
catalogue of criminal activities
ranged from auto thefts to the killing
of three Federal agents. Born IN
Chicago in 1908, the son of a Belgian
tanner, Nelson, whose real name was
Lester Gillis. was twice paroled from
the ST. Charles institution, and finally
discharged in 1926.
Two years later, after his mar
riage to Helen Wawzynak, Federal
agents said he turned his attention
to bank robbery. He was convicted
of robbing the State banks Of Hillside
and Itasca. For each he received
terms of one year to live in Joliet
Penitentiary.
While being returned to prison, he
escaped and apparently fled from
Chicago to the Pacific Coast. where
he was trigger man for a rum-run-
ming gang across the bay from San
Francisco.
After an interlude in Iowa, where
several movie theater robberies were
chalked against him, Nelson apr ared
with the Dillinger gang.
After the Little Bohemia shooting,
Nelson fled to the Far West, where
Federal agents said he was probably
hidden by his former rum-running
associates. He didn't appear again in
the Midwest until when Cowley and
Hollis were killed.
The neat fortune his depredations
were reported to have netted him was
not to be found near his body. A
belt that probably had contained
money was found ripped from the
body and cut open.
Another small fortune, the re-
wards offered for Nelson's capture
dead or alive, will probably never be
paid, authorities indicated.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
BY AMBROSE BROD,

Commissioner of Niles Center Police. g,
(Copyright, 1884. by the Associated Press }
CHICAGO. November 29.-We had
been keeping a vigilant eye out for
Nelson since we heard of the gun
duel yesterday near Darlington, but
the first tangible report that the
gangster was dead in Niles Center
came in a telephone call about 7:55
m. from an undertaken named Sa-
doWski
The undertaken said he had just
received a phone call to go to Lin
coin and Harms road and pick up the
body of Mr.. Gillis." That was
Nelson's actual manchester Gillis.
This call, Sadowski told us, was
anonymous. but We set out in search
Immediately. There we're six in the
party, four Federal agents, Chief A,
c. Stolberg and myself.
About O'Clock we found Nelson S
clothing, wrapped in a laundry bag
and a pillowcaSe, at Railroad avenue,
near Howard street. This is about
2 miles from where the body itself
was subsequently discovered. The
garments obviously had been ripped
and torn from the man.
Second Call Reported.
So we continued cruising, but with
out luck, and then the undertaken
telephoned again. In the interim he
said, he had received another call
wanting to know if the body had been
discovered, and when he replied that
Evening star., 1934-11-29
BY NORA E. HOLLIS.

DES MONIES, Iowa, November %.
When my son Herman set out to
do anything it was done. and done
perfectly-that Is why ! hope and be-
lieve that in his last service to his
country he completely did his duty by
firing the shots that were fatal for the
laWbreaker.
Whether it was music. law or dane
ing Herman excelled. He had the will
to do things and do them right. And
he was smart and clever enough to
carry out that will.
Why I remember when he was born.
I was a young mother-only 10. and
Herman was my first born. The doctor
rubbed his hand over the boys head
and said There's a head with knowl-
edge in it."
When he was / year old / got a
bank for him. I taught him to save
his pennies and nickels. We opened
bank account and it's still open here.
Saves Sons Baby Book.
I still have the little linen book
from which he learned his first letters.
When he was only year old he would
point to them and spell out the trade
name on one of my household appli-
ances.
/ used to put him in a carriage and
when We go through downtown stores
the clerks would rave about him; peo-
pie would stop and look at him.
Then when he entered school, he
didn't stay but half day in the
kindergarten. The sister said he was
too advanced for that. and he was put
in first grade. From the day he
started to school he was fond of books
He and would sit out in the yard
after school and he'd tell me all he'd
learned that day-sometimes we'd be
out there on the lawn for half an hour
He was a Boy Scout and he'd come
home from the camp every year with
all the medals and letters he won for
the best bed making and other things
they do there. And still have all the
medals One time, too, when had 10
go to a special church meeting. came
home and he had full meal all
prepared and on the table.
Was Happy by Nature.
Herman was such a happy boy
and quick, TOO. Once was all you had
10 tell him a thing or show him
When he was going to school and
working eight hours a day at the
post Office he didn't have any time
for whoopee. He was graceful
dancer and enjoyed it and went TO
his fraternity dances, but didn't go
cruising around with a bunch of wild
boys He was more serious. And the
money he earned he saved for his own
education.
I can't remember when he first
said he wanted to be a lawyer. II
seems like he always wanted to be
He selected his own law school
Georgetown. and arranged for trans
fer from the Des Moines Post Office
Evening star., 1934-11-29
DILLlNGER HARBORERS'
ROUNDUP UNDER WAY
Ten Who Gave Food and Shelter
to Desperate in West Soon
to Be Arrested.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 90
With George Baby Face" Nelson
dead, Department of Justice agents
here turned their attention today to
a roundup of persons accused OF
aiding the former John Dillinger
gunman during his recent secret So
journ in California and Nevada.
Ten persons will be arrested shortly
in Northern California and Nevada
on charges of harboring the public
enemy, said E. P. Guinane, division
chief of the Department of Justice.
Guinane said his chief concern is
the capture of John Chase. 80, from
whom he hoped to obtain valuable
information.
At least IS agents were trailing
Nelson during his dashes, Guinane
disclosed, adding that persons of ap-
parently legitimate occupation gave
the gangster food and shelter.
I'VE will have the last laugh on
them now," he said
Evening star., 1934-11-29
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
John Hamiltons next-get him"
That order sent Department of JUS
tice men ranging a wide territory to-
day for the last surviving principal Of
John Dillinger's mob.
Now that Baby Face Nelson is gone
-riddled by two Federal men. who
gave their lives in the flght-Hamil-
tons name stands in a quartet Of
public enemies" on which the Federal
agents are concentrating. Though the
only specific Federal charge against
him is obstructing justice, he is
wanted badly.
While considering him a contender
for the title Public Enemy No L.
agents say there are three others. They
are Arthur (Doc) Barker and Alvin
Karpi. named as the abductors of Ed
ward G. Bremen, St Paul business
man, and Thomas H. Robinson. jr..
accused of kidnapping Mrs. Alice Speed
Stoll, society leader Of Louisville, KY.
Tag Means Oblivion.
Grieving over the death of Inspec-
tor Samuel P. Cowley and Agent Her
man Hollis, the Department of JUS
tice took pride in the claim that it
is rapidly converting the public enemy
tag into a passport to oblivion.
1t was obviously pleased. too. over
the surrender OF Dutch" Schultz,
long considered a leader in the New
York beer racket For % months the
Treasury Department sought Schultz
He surrendered yesterday. few days
Evening star., 1934-11-29
BILL TO AID FAMILIES
OF SLAIN U. S. AGENTS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator King, Democrat. Of Utah,
who indorsed the late Samuel p
Cowley for the position of Depart
ment OF Justice agent. plans to in
troduce a bill to aid the families OF
such agents killed in the line of duty.
Referring to the fatal wounding
near Darlington, ILL.,, of Cowley and
Herman E. Hollis, another Justice
Department agent, King said:
Il will prepare a measure COM
mensurate with the importance and
the gravity Of the situation. I think
it Is q frightful thing to have these
gangsters preying upon mothers
stealing their children and shooting
down such fine men as these De-
partment of Justice agents"
Evening star., 1934-11-29
Ne,us of Body Find Delayed
As Mystery Tips We're Traced
Police Commissioner Says Nelson Died
in Chicago Hotel, From Which
Aides' Calls We're Made.
it had not, the anonymous caller gave

it had not the anonymous caller gave
him more explicit directions.
So we went back to work. Presently
We happened upon this bloody mass in
a ditch, covered with a cheap and
gaudy blanket-all that was left OF
Baby Face. There wasn't any name
on the blanket.
We waited around until a Govern
ment car appeared and the body was
loaded into it. Everybody was still
tense and vigilant, and when We saw
a suspicious appearing car lettering
nearby some of the officers rushed the
driver. He was only beer salesman
and was allowed to CO. A lot of in
quisitive people were beginning to
gather.
I don't think Nelson killed those
agents. CoWley and Hollis From the
number of bullets in his legs. and
from what have been able to learn
it appears Nelson fell down almost
instantly after he climbed out of the
car, when the agents answered the
fire.
1hillhS Aluc was hhIcT.
It seems to me the man who was
with Nelson did the killing.
I feel certain that Nelson died in
a Chicago Hotel. From all that We
could learn his companions, after
driving Nelson about, took him to the
hotel and later when he died brough,
him to Niles Center.
The reason the finding of the body
was not made public earlier was be-
cause the Federal men believed if the
news were withheld the person who
notified the undertaken might cal
again.
The Federal men already had beer
dispatched to the hotel when the
second phone call came to the under.
taker and they were hoping to trace
the calls that gave us the tip that
Nelson could be found. a corpse, neal
! hero
Evening star., 1934-11-29
Dead or Alive ?

COLUMBUS, Ohio (P).-Wilbur Neal
was called upon in court to testify
that he is not dead. An insurance
agent was accused of collecting $500
on Meals death claim.
Are you dead?" prosecutor asked
Neal.
i don't suppose I am
The jury convicted the insurance
agent
Evening star., 1934-11-29

The tolloUing account OF the
search for George BABY Face" Nell
sons body 1ocs uritten for the As
sociated Press by Ambrose Brod,
police commissioner of Niles Gen.
ter, uho took personal part in the
hunt.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
MOTHER RELATES
STORY OF HOLLIS
Says Son Made Good at
Whatever Task He As
signed Energies.

The mother of Herman E. Hollis,
federal agent Uho uas fatally shot
in the gun battle Which ended the
criminal career OF Baby Face"
Nelson, here tells how and why her
son embarked on his hazardous
uork for the Government.
Evening star., 1934-11-29
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HAMILTON SOUGHT
AS NELSON'S AIDE
IN FATAL GUN DUEL

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