The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-05

the robbery of Mooresville dnd.l
merchant
Dillinger was seriously i'll with ir1-
fluenza and his family was notified
that little hope was held for his
life.
Serving Sixty Six-Year Term
The two convicts, admiring Dill
linger as one of the stars of the
prison baseball team, nursed him
night and day and he told them
that he owed his life to them.
Atkinson is serving a sixty-six-
year sentence on a charge of being
an accessory to a murder and
Skene was sentenced to ninety-nine
years for murder. They were ar
rested after a cashier was slain in
the holdup of southern Illinois ice
cream company.
1t was in 1927 that they served
time in Pendleton with Dillingers
Warden Whip said
At the same time it was learned
that Captain Matt leach of the In
diana state police had feared bank
robbery by Dillinger as long ago as
three weeks.
Informant Is Positive
Captain Leach, who denied after
the South Bend robbery that he be-
lieved it to be the work of the LNl-
linger terrorists, had been told that
Dillinger had only about $4,000 left
from his loot when he escaped the
department of justice trap for him
in northern Wisconsin.
This amount would not go far in
financing a flight and hiding as ex-
pensive as Dillinger's necessarily
must be, it was pointed out.
The terror mobster, who is said
by the informant to have been liv-
ing in Chicago almost all the time
since the Wisconsin escape, when
two men were killed, still plans to
free Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley
and Russell Clark from the Ohio
state penitentiary in Columbus.
Of this, the informant was most
positive.
He said the Shelbyville robbery
and others which will follow it will
be necessary to raise funds to con-
tinue the legal fight to keep Pier
pont and Makley from the electric S
chair and to free Clark, sentenced s
to life Imprisonment.
"Dillinger will storm the Ohio
state penitentiary and take the Ener
out by force if the court fight fails
the informant said.
officials have scoffed at this
theory in the past on the ground
that the great gray mass of stone
at Columbus is a veritable fortress
and would be impregnable even to
Dillinger.
simultaneously with the revela-
ton that Dillinger's plans had been
revealed so fully to authorities came
story of official impatience and
an informant's fear in the futile
raids of Tuesday night here and in
haywood
MisinfOrmed Officials
Working with Al Feeney, state
safety director, the police refused
to wait in haywood when the in
formant could not find at once a
house where, he had SAID, Dillinger
might be hiding. A policeman later
admitted that further search might
have revealed the house.
The informant, who led police to
an apartment here which was in
habited by two extremely startled
statehouse employees, is said to have
admitted that fear of gangland re-
prisals made him misinform police
at the last minute after he had
taken them to a building where
Dillinger had been earlier in the
day
In Washington, Attorney General
Homer Cummings sad he would
offer more money for capture Of
Dillinger, but for the fact lie is run
ming out of reward funds.
Should the present rewards offered
be collected, he would have but
$500 left of the SIS 1000 appropriate
ed for reward purposes by congress,
he said.
Errors IN Story Revealed
Rewards now posted by the n.
partment of justice include $4,000
for the capture of Dillinger and S.
900 for information leading TO MS
arrest; $4,000 for the capture of
Nelson, and $500 for information
leading to his arrest.
In an allegedly humorous story
published by an afternoon paper
yesterday concerning the futile hunt
for Dillinger early Wednesday in
and near the city, various errors Of
fact gave the story truly facetious
twist.
Captain Leach. who was out Of
the city, was mentioned as one of
the leaders Of the raiding party; the
story spoke of young people spoon
ing in canoes along White river
startled by the roar of automobiles"
when as a matter of fact she raid