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Dillinger, as desperate criminal with
a nervous trigger finger"
The Government men recalled that
Brady on one occasion boasted:
I'll make John Dillinger look like
a punk"
But today the G-men made AL
Brady look like John Dillinger that
Chicago night when Federal fire cut
him down as he fled from the finger
woman" the lady In red"
Cooperating with the G-men was
Detective Meredith Stewart of the In
diana State olice. who was called in by
the Federal men because of his de-
tailed knowledge of the most famous
of few remaining Midwestern robber
chiefs.
Among murders laid at Brady's
door, or for which he was believed
responsible, was the September 27
killing of Patrolman George Conn
near Freeport. Ohio Three men
Charles and Frank Bird and James
Widmer-escaped jail in Cleveland,
Ohio, September II and they have
been hunted for the patrolman's
murder.
Other Ohio crimes charged to the
Brady gang included. besides the
Staying of the Piqua grocery clerk
during a hold-up, bank robbery at
Greenville and jewelry store robberies
at Greenville. Dayton and Lima.
In Oman Tradition.
Today was by no means the first
time gangsters have drawn guns
against G-men. Invariably they have
done so to their sudden sorrow. Seven
gangsters have paid with their lives
since 1888 for firing upon Federal
agents, six of them dying from Oman
bullets. The other died on the
galloWs.
Prices Of $500 were placed by the
Department OF Justice on the heads
OF Brady and his companion. As
many as 20 men at time have
hunted the Indiana desperadoes.
1t was only few months ago that
j. Eogar Hoover, head Oman, stated
that only eight of his men had been
Killed by gunflre in the long war
against gangsters and kidnapers and
that IN the same period-covering
virtually the entire life of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation under his
regime-the G-men had made more
than 1000 arrests.
Only three agents have been shot,
according to Hoover, "in anything like
public places"
The most recent gun battle in which
the G-men got their man occurred
last December Is in New York City,
when they shot it out with Harry
Brunette, who surrendered only after
his wife had been slightly wounded.
Brunette is now serving life sentence
under the Lindbergh kidnap law.
Missed Quarry Before.
In the yearlong hunt for the Brady
gang, the Federal detectives have
been on several hot" trails, only to
miss their quarry, sometimes merely
by minutes.
A trap was set for the Brady mob
sters in Baltimore last August IL,
when officers heard the gang was to
get delivery of guns and ammunition
at downtown Office building. Raid
ing the building, the officers found
more than 1000 rounds of machine
gun ammunition, four hand grenades,
automatic pistol clips, mask and the
belt and holster of the Indiana State
trooper, Paul zimmerman, who had been
killed last May from ambush after
the robbery of a Goodland, Ind, bank.
Baltimore police, closing in on the
Brady men, were fired upon, and
Brady and the others escaped when
their bullets disabled the pursuing car
Of the policemen.
When Brady, Shaffer and Dalhover
escaped Jail at Greenfield, they were
being held for the murder of Police
Sergt. Richard Rivers OF Indianapolis
Walsh Is World Pistol Champion.
Special Agent Walter Walsh, the
Oman wounded in the Bangor battle,
is world 20 automatic pistol champion.
Last week he and several crack
shot colleagues staged q remarkable
demonstration of trick shooting at
Quantico for 500 delegates to the con-
vention of the International Associa-
ton for Identification.
Walsh operates out of Washington
headquarters of the F. B. I. In the
Office of j. Edgar Hoover, F. B. l. di-
rector, are several trophies which
Walsh has won at national pistol
meets.
At the Quantico demonstration
Walsh amazed visiting criminologists
by aiming two pistols simultaneously
and splitting two potatoes held Inf the
outstretched hands of Oscar, famous
wax dummy used by G-men in crime
studies.
He also broke pieces of chalk held
in Oscars mouth and stuck In his ears.