The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-16
OILLINGERS GO ON SPIEL TOUR
 OF DIXIE FAIRS
Slain DesperadO's Father and Half-BrOther Give
 Lectures
BY WALTER DUSTMANN United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Shelby, N. C., Oct. 16 = UP) - A new "Dillinger band" has arisen this time to tell the world that crime doesn't pay and, incident ally, to attempt to lessen the in- fanny of the late ace deSperado, John Dillinger.
 John Dillinger, ST., and Hubert Dillinger, Johns half-brother = aided by a professional barker and wax museum of the nations one- time underworld great who came to sudden end - are transforming the United States with their message.
 The tiny band is drawing crowds since 1t opened its anti-criYne cru- Sade at North Carolina county fairs. From the Cleveland county fair it goes to Hickory, N. O., spartansburg, s. c, and points
 Blame Put On Warden
 John was good boy, just got into bad company" the elder Dil- finger, 73, baldish, pleasant and in a well-tailored fall suit, tells his audiences. But he never would have ended as he did had not 8 warden confused @ picture of him with that of bank robber and is- sued an order for his arrest"
 Dillinger, Mooresville, Ind, far mer, said he was making the tour because he had nothing else to do." His story of his sons life in crime starts with Johns 1O-year term for robbery Ca confederate, it seems, got of with two years) when, sitting at home listening to the radio, he heard a flash that John was wanted for robbing a bank"
 Bitter at the world for his long, unjust prison term, John there and then determined never to return to prison," Dillinger continued. He left home that night and began his 14-months crime wave that terror. ized the nation"
 Had that warden not mistaken pictures and not jumped to the conclusions because John was an ex-convict, his career of crime would never have been," the old man argued.
 Half-Br0ther DantS To Fly
 Hubert Dillinger, 24, who bears marked resemblance to his gang ster brother, even to the mustache, and wants to be an aviator, added a few words to those of his father and told what he knew of John.
 The spieler who introduces the audiences to the Dillingers also has his forceful bit to add to the ex- plantations as to, why John became criminal.
 q knew John Dillinger per- Sonally," he begins. And I can tell you, as can many others, that any, one who ever knew him liked him. But, at the same time, would have hated to be an enemy of John Dillinger."
 After enlarging on the case of the mistaken photograph, the barker vividly presents a resume of Dillin- gers crimes and escapades over the 14-month period in 1934-35.
 "He was making fools of the po- lice - that's why they had to gel rid of him." he adds.
 The Dillinger crime exhibit com- prises wax figures of Al Capone John Red" Hamilton, Dillinger's ace lieutenant; Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (both laid out on marble slabs dripping blood), Baby Face" Nelson, Bruno Richard Hauptmann and others.
 Beneath each figure is large pla- card telling what they did and how the law finally caught them.
 Headlining the exhibit of gang sters celebrities is the figure of John Dillinger, Jr., laid out on 8 slab in the Cook county, Illinois jail after G-men had killed him as he left a Chicago theater.
 Prominent also Is the figure of the woman in red" Mrs. Anna Sage. Dillinger's "moll" who presumably tipped off federal agents that the gangster would be at the theater that night.
 "She put him on the spot" the exhibit placard tersely reads.