The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
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CHICAGO, March PA special
squad of heavily armed police were
believed today to have picked up
the trail of John Dillinger, notorl-
Gus gunman, following the discovery
of a hideaway in which the outlaw
remained for several weeks.
Clews found in a top floor apart
ment on the south side of the city
led to a renewed search for the
desperate. Dillinger, woman COM
panion, and one Of Dillinger's fol-
lowers, Joseph Burns, were identi-
fed as the persons who occupied
the apartment from the time of
Dillingers break from the Crown
Point Qnd0 Jail until last Wednes-
day
A possibility that Dillinger, whose
picture is familiar to thousands of
police officers and citizens alike,
may have resorted to plastic sur
gerry as a disguise for his maraud-
ings was under investigation.
Police questioned physicians at
the SOuthmoor Health Center in
an effort to determine whether an
operation had been performed on
the desperate to change his fea-
lures.
Receipt Is Found
In the apartment believed to have
been occupied by Dillinger and
members of his gang a torn re-
ceipt from the health center was
found.
A resident of the building said
the man resembling Dillinger APP
peared to have had an operation on
his chin recently.
Two other men. identified from
pictures as John Hamilton and
Joseph Fox, Dillinger gangsters,
visited the apartment several times.
a caretaker of the apartment build
ing revealed.
Sergeant Harry Bingham was
placed in charge of the new hunt
for the outlaw.
The apartment was rented on
the Saturday that Dillinger walked
out of the Indiana jail with the aid
of a wooden gun. A woman iden-
titled from police pictures as Pearl
Elliott. known companion of men,
berS of Dillinger'S gang, rented the
apartment.
Two Weeks Rent Paid
It was occupied on the following
day and the woman paid two weeks
rent in advance after comforting
with a man who remained in an
automobile.
The apartment is located on the
top floor of the building. Three
exits are afforded, as well as a trap
door exit leading to the roof. Dur
ing the time the outlaw stayed in
the apartment he was seen leaving
it only two or three times, and then
always by a dark, rear stairway.
The caretaker said that when Dill
unger and the woman took possess
sion of the apartment they carried
two suitcases and a paper wrapped
nackaee which might have been one
of the two machine guns which
Dilhnger picked up at the Crown
Point Jail.
one striking development of
which police learned led to consid-
cradle conjecture. Neighbors in the
vicinity of the apartment house re-
ported that during the time when
Dillinger was believed to be in
hiding. an airplane circled low over
the apartment house on several oc-
casionS.
Plane May Have Been Used
Police believed that plane might
have been used by Dillinger associ-
ates for signaling. 1t was recalled
that an airplane circled low over the
Crown Point Jail on the night pre-
ceding Dillinger's successful break.
Communications could have been
established with an airplane by
some one on the roof of the apart
ment house. which was accessible
by trap door from Dillingers apart
ment.
Police found a number of tele-
grams addressed to j. Schultz. the
name under which the apartment
had been rented. The apartment
had been left hurriedly. they said.
Police did not reveal the contents
of the kilograms.