Evening star., 1934-07-25
b ne Associated Press


CHICAGO. July 25.-FTom the girl
In REQ" police learned today more
about how John Dillinger walked into
the trap that ended with death his
career Of crime.
The girl in red, one Of the two
women who we're with the Indiana
outlaw just before he was killed by
Federal bullets. was Mrs Anna Sage,
~. brown haired and brown-eyed.
Police arrested her last night az her
home Just around the corner from
the Biograph Theater, out Of which
Dillinger walked unsuspectingly Sun
day night TO mis- death
Mrs Sage told police she knew
and that he posed as an employe Of
the Chicago Board of Trade.
From the girl in red" after long
questioning by the police came the
story Of the last woman Dillinger as
sociated with, named by Mrs. Sage
as Mrs Roy Keele. 26-year-old d.
vorced wife OF a Gary. Ind, police
man-of how Dillinger spent his time
Just prior to the fatal shooting. and
Of how he said he went 10 New York
recently "on a business trip" He was
also reported 10 have witnessed a
Chicago base ball game.
Woman Returns to Scene.
But it vas not learned whether Mrs.
Sage or Mrs KeeIe furnished the in
formation with which Dillinger was
trapped. Both fed from the scene Of
the shooting. but Mrs Sage returned,
after changing her red dress for an
other Mrs. Keele declined to go back
to the scene and later went to her
mothers home in Fargo, N. Oak,
Mrs. Sage said.
Secrecy the Government agents
threw around the affair still persisted
and it could not be learned whether
either woman will make any claim to
the $4,000 rewards that hung over
the public enemy's head.
Capt. Timothy O'Neil of the East
Chicago police, who with Sergt..
Martin Zarkovich was among the
Indiana officers at the death scene,
denied emphatically that Mrs. Sage
had anything to do with the Dillin-
ger trap. adding that an underworld
character had seen Dillinger and had
given the information to Zarkovich.
Denies Whole Story.
"All this talk about a woman in q
red dress tipping US off to Dillinger's s
whereabouts is untrue" he said.
Capt Thomas Duffy of the Sheffield
avenue police, who with Capt. John
Siege questioned Mrs Sage at length
before she was turned over to Federal
agents last night, said he believed she
had sheltered Dillinger knowingly or
unknowingly for several weeks. 1t was
in her apartment, the police said they
learned, that Dillinger and Mrs Keele
first met.
Mrs. Sage, twice married, and also
known as Mrs. Anna Miller. and Mrs.
Anna Chilak. admitted, the police
said, that Dillinger had been in her
apartment three or four evenings, "
but denied reports, previously circu-
lated, that he had roomed there. She
said she was well acquainted with
Sergt. Zarkovich, who has been
credited in some reports as the man
who trailed Dillinger down.
Went Around With Girl
Mre. Keele, also known by her
maiden name of Polly Hamilton, kept
company with Dillinger, Mrs. Sage
said, but the hunted outlaw would not
let Mrs. Keele know his telephone
number on the pretext he was a
married man.
The girl in red" told Capt Siege
that Dillnger came to her house last
Sunday evening, when he played cards
with Mrs. Keele, whose picture, the
police said, they learned, was in Dill
fingers watch.
Capt. Siege asked her. AFTER you
had your dinner Sunday night, who
suggested that you 60 10 the the
ater?"
"Dillinger did"
He suggested that theater?" asked
Siege.
"YeS. He never said anything until
We got to the door. wanted to go
to the Uptown, another theater, to
see Little Miss Marker and he said
he wanted to 60 around the corner.
That is about a block from my house,
the Biograph, and then we walked to
the show.
Tells OF Theater Exit.
''I guess Miss Hamilton was in the
middle and Dillinger was on the out