The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-10-29
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passed through Lake Geneva rev
moments later, an agent on assign
ment there recognized Nelson in the
drivers seat and also noted the
tag numbers. He, too, phoned to
Chicago.
Immediately upon receipt of this
second call, Cowley got in touch
by telephone with two agents who
were on special assignment on
the outskirts of Chicago, directing
them to proceed at once toward
Lake Geneva over the Northwest
highway and to keep close watch
for va sedan containing two men
and a woman and bearing Illinois
tags, number 639-578. CoWley said
he and Agent Hollis would follow
at once, with machine gun and shot
gun, and would endeavor to over
take them on the highway.
The first pair of agents were
armed only with pistols. They were
in a decrepit coupe they had been
using in their under-cover assign
ment.
About five miles east of Barring
ton, ILL.,, these agents saw headed
toward them a va sedan contain
ing two men and a woman and
bearing Illinois tags, only the last
three numbers of which they were
able to ''catch." The numbers were
-578. They turned around in the
road sharply in order to follow this
car and identify the tags definitely.
AS they wheeled, Nelson became
suspicious that he was being fol-
lowed and he, too, turned around
in the highway, heading back to-
ward Lake Geneva. Satisfied, ap-
perently, that he was the object
of curiosity by the men in the coupe,
Nelson suddenly swerved complete
ly around once more, sped up and
sought to compel the coupe to pull
up at the side of the road.
The agents found themselves look
ing down the muzzle of an auto
matte rifle, held by Chase, who was
seated in the back of Nelson's car.
Instead of obeying Nelson's 81
multaneous demand that they halt,
the agents sped up and swerved
down the highway. AS they started
away, Chase began firing at them
through the windshield of Nelson's
car.
Shortly after this encounter
Cowley and Hollis, proceeding from
Chicago, met Nelson's car on the
highway. They turned around and
took up the pursuit.
Nelson Immediately stepped on
the gas and tried to outdistance
Cowley's car, which was a high
powered sedan. After a short and
furious chase, during which Mel
sons car began to overhead badly
from loss of water, Nelson jammed
on the brakes and veered into
driveway of the North side park
in Darlington.
Cowley's car skidded to a stop
about 200 feet ahead.
In the meantime, Nelson, Chase
and Mrs. Nelson had jumped out
of their car, the latter running and
throwing herself into ditch. Nelson
and Chase got behind their car and
leveled an automatic rifle and a
machine gun over the hood.
AS Cowley and Hollis emerged
from their car - Cowley with a
machine gun and Hollis with shot
gun = Nelson and Chase turned
loose a deadly barrage of lead
Hollis leaped behind a pole and
returned the fire with his shotgun.
He was killed instantly by a shot
in the head as he aimed his shot
gun.
Cowley, although hit several
lines by machine gun slugs, and
while sinking to the ground from
his wounds, managed to empty his
machine gun at his assailants.
Mortally wounded, he crumpled
to the ground.
Nelson and Chase ran over to
Cowley's car and started off in it.
Cowley identified himself to per-
sons who soon rushed to the scene.
Taken to hospital, he asked that
agents be rushed to him from the
Chicago Office. His chief concern
was to confirm to his men before
he died that it was 'Baby Face"
Nelson with whom he had battled.
He died several hours after gasping
his story to his grim-faced agents.
A telephone call to an under
taker. made by a mysterious wom-
an, who hung up quickly, led
Cowley's men to ditch near
cemetery in Niles Center, near
Chicago, where the remains of ''Ba-
by Face" Nelson were found-nude
and torn by II bullets.
Another gangster had been
crossed off the list at the cost of
the lives of three Omen.