The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-25
CRACK DETECTIVES
OF FEDERAL FORCES
Sent TO WISCONSIN
Department Of Justice Conf.
dent It Will Have DilIing.
er Before LONG,
NO NEW CLUES REPORTED
indiana Parole q Blamed for
loosing No. I Bad Man
Upon Country

WV Eau uvU0vv
Upon Country
Mercer. Wis, April 25.-(F-Amer.
ica's million dollar murderer. with .
puny $25 price tag on his head-and
the blood Of IL men across his bullet
blazed trail-mocked Wednesday an
army Of more than 5000 officers who
hunted him.
We'll have John Ddllinger before
long," said the department Of justice
through its division Of investigation
at Chicago.
The earnestnsss Of the governments
determination was witnessed by both
the great number and high calibre Of
agents they threw into the hunt.
But there was no word Of the des-
rerado despite the intensity Of the
search. Rumors flew, but Ill sim
r,ered down to the fact that John
Dillinger vanished Sunday night from
the Little Bohemia resort near here
and has been unreported since.
Ask Purvis Suspension
AS petition asking the suspension
OF Melvin H. Purvis, department Of
justice investigator, pending q probe
into Dillinger's escape, was circulated
in Mercer, reports on Dillinger sus-
poets came from st. Paul and Akron,
Ohio.
Four armed men and two women
raided a farm home near Elk River,
Mimi, Wednesday. First reports led
authorities to believe the raiders
might have been Dillinger monsters.
Two men shortly after noon We'd
nesday robbed bank In Magadore,
Akron suburb. and Officials endeavor-
ed to identify their car - ono shs-
pected in possession Of the gauesters.
In . criminal career dating only
from last June-not yet 4 year-tnis
31-year-old, small town man from
Indiana has cost an estimated q $780,
600 in law enforcement funds and an
other $500, 900 in loot from banks he
has robbed; yet the only reward Of
fered for his capture 10 the nominal
$25 which the state Of Indiana o46ers
automatically for the arrest OF parole
violators.
Parole Cauaed Troshle
All the DIlinger furore, the Dillineer
desperadoisn, and the Dilliuger deaths
have occurred during q period In
which. except for q parole, he would
still have been In q prison cell. He
was freed on his plea that he was not
ar habitual criminal and that he was
reeded for the support Of IN aged
father.
II think John would make q good
policeman, II they'd give him another
chance" the father said, Is the fed
eral government, playing its aces,
pushed the hunt for the son, dead or
alive.
Even Europe. with the Atlantic
ocean between It and Americas pub.
lie enemy No. l, displayed sharp in.
terest In the killers case Wednesday.
The zwoelf Uhr Plat. published in
Berlin, limited that Nad Germany
might give America q lesson In how
to deal with American desperadoes
and pointed to sterilization.
From the attorney general 1t WASH
ington on down, the government
pointed its full strength ct this one
man. Re-enforcements went into the
field Wednesday, among them w. A.
Rorer, the officer who brought about
the arrest Of another public menace.
George (Machine CUM Kelly, kid
naper-gunman now serving . life
Ia HAA
Underworld Haunts Combod
The federal men, however, formed
only q small part Of the still larger
army Of approximately 5000 state, city
and county officers who were comb.
Ing the underworld haunts Of five
m!ddlewest states.
Aided-or handicapped. Is the casa
may be-by hundreds and Thousands
o. tips" that DNlinger had been
seen" in various parts Of Illinois. IN
diana, Ohio, Minnesota and Wiscon-
En. the officers pushed their hunt
relentlessly.
Among the hundreds Of reports and
rumors concerning the movements OF
Americas No. outlaw vas one from
Muncte, Ind. that led to the belief
that Dtllinger's mob might attempt
to deliver his pals, Harry Pierpont.
Charles Makley and Russell Clark.
slsyers Of Sheriff Jess Sarber OF Iima.
O., from the Ohio state prison e
Columbus. -Four men riding In IN
automobile with . machine gun near
Muncie gave rise to this belief.
Extra precautions also were taken