The Bismarck tribune., 1934-04-04
FEDERAL OFFICERS
nab HENCHMAN IN
BLAST OF CUNFRE
Woman Arrested With Him Be.
lieved to Be One Who Fled
From Apartment
, SECRECY ENvELoPS MOVES
Government Chief Says Guns
Roared When Victim Made
'Menacing Gesture
/, SECRECY ENvEL0PS MOVES

81. raul, April 4.-(H)eFederal guns
blazing leaden retort to gang defiance
had cut close Wednesday to the trial
Of the arch-fugitive, John Dillinger
and Redeemed it with the blood of one
Of his gun-toting pals.
In swift descent Tuesday upon q
\ hideout place, officers wounded and
captured Eugene Green, q veteran o1
1nidwestern crime. Arrested with him
was woman. Officers guarded he1
identity carefully. It was said she
closely resembled Evelyn Frechetti. q
J girl friend Of Dillinger.
The woman, q red head like the one
who fled with one Of the men after q
machine gun fight in an apartment
here last Saturday, was questioned
persistently Wednesday. She insisted
she was Green's wife. Police found
$500 in her possession.
Green, critically wounded, admitted
he was one Of three persons who shot
their way out Of police trap Satur-
day. Dillinger himself was understood
to have been one Of the others. The
third, q woman. is presumed to have
been the Frechetti woman.
10 Held For Guard
Federal men and police conducted
Tuesday nights raid with great Sec
recy and declined to lift the veil
Wednesday. Green, under heavy
guard, is at q hospital.
He was wounded in the head and
body but physicians said he prob.
ably will recover.
simultaneously, city detective
Thomas A. Brown was withdrawn
from the Dillinger case. Chief Of
Police Thomas Dahill refused to COM
ment on Browns removal.
It was recalled that Homer Cum
mings, United States attorney gener-
al, recently criticized the st. Paul po-
lice department and said among other
things that "segments" Of 1t refused
to cooperate with federal department
Of justice men.
In the only statement made by
either police or federal officers, w. A
Rorer, heading federal forces In charge
of solution Of the Edward q. Bremen
kidnapping case, announced that Green
had admitted being one Of the trio
involved in Saturdays gun battle with
officers.
Find Machine Gun Part
Rorer said that the butt Of . ma
chine gun left In an automobile
abandoned by the trio Saturday wal
found in Green's apartment in front
of which Tuesday nights shooting oc-
CURED. The place Is owned by q
negress.
A plant" was established at the
apartment by federal agents awaiting
the return Of Green to obtain posses
sion Of the butt as well as other bag
gage, including automatic gun clips
and a supply Of ammunition.
Reports Of the shooting conflicted
Rorer said Green was shot when he
assumed q threatening attitude which
was accompanied by q menacing ges-
ture' as he was endeavoring to get
away with his equipment.
Other witnesses describing the
shooting said Green and his woman
companion drove up to the apart
ment and that the federal agent
planted in the house opened fire from
q window as Green stepped from the
car. To prevent possibility Of . get
away q car containing federal agents
armed with machine guns, drove ur
behind Green's auto and shot ct the
rear tires.
Woman Hurried Away
Jumping from the car the woman
screamed please don't shoot any more
we're alone" She was Immediately
hurried away by the federal agents
and 1t could not be learned where she
was being held.
Rorer said Green has long GRIM
inal record and has gone under the
aliases Of Edward Green, Fred Rogge
Charles Ryan, and George Graham
Rorer stated that In 1915 Green served
six months In the Milwaukee house ol
correction on grand larceny charge
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