1000+ images about baby face Nelson and the iceman and john gotti john Dillinger on Pinterest | Crime, Al capone and Gangsters July 22, 1934: Notorious bank robber and J. Edgar Hoover's "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is killed by FBI agents at a theater in Chicago. See More 1000+ images about Dillinger on Pinterest | Gangsters, Public enemies and Indiana Forward This Lincoln Park neighborhood landmark is probably best known by Chicagoans as the place where John Dillinger was shot and killed in 1934 after attending a screening of “Manhattan Melodrama” starring Clark Gable (allegedly the ghost of Dillinger has haunted the theater ever since). See More John Dillinger — FBI History of FBI Headquarters John Dillinger During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Herbert Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country.

Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, was a notorious and vicious thief. From September 1933 until July 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, killing 10 men, wounding 7 others, robbing banks and police arsenals, and staging 3 jail breaks—killing a sheriff during one and wounding 2 guards in another. John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903 in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, a middle-class residential neighborhood. His father, a hardworking grocer, raised him in an atmosphere of disciplinary extremes, harsh and repressive on some occasions, but generous and permissive on others. John’s mother died when he was three, and when his father remarried six years later, John resented his stepmother. In adolescence, the flaws in his bewildering personality became evident, and he was frequently in trouble. Finally, he quit school and got a job in a machine shop in Indianapolis. Although intelligent and a good worker, he soon became bored and often stayed out all night.

His father, worried that the temptations of the city were corrupting his teenage son, sold his property in Indianapolis and moved his family to a farm near Mooresville, Indiana. However, John reacted no better to rural life than he had to that in the city and soon began to run wild again. A break with his father and trouble with the law (auto theft) led him to enlist in the Navy. There he soon got into trouble and deserted his ship when it docked in Boston. Returning to Mooresville, he married 16-year-old Beryl Hovius in 1924. A dazzling dream of bright lights and excitement led the newlyweds to Indianapolis. Dillinger had no luck finding work in the city and joined the town pool shark, Ed Singleton, in his search for easy money. In their first attempt, they tried to rob a Mooresville grocer, but were quickly apprehended. Singleton pleaded not guilty, stood trial, and was sentenced to two years in prison.

Dillinger, following his father’s advice, confessed, was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob and conspiracy to commit a felony, and received joint sentences of two to 14 years and 10 to 20 years in the Indiana State Prison. Stunned by the harsh sentence, Dillinger became a tortured, bitter man in prison. His period of infamy began on May 10, 1933, when he was paroled from prison after serving eight-and-a-half years of his sentence. Almost immediately, Dillinger robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Dayton police arrested him on September 22, and he was lodged in the county jail in Lima, Ohio to await trial. In frisking Dillinger, the Lima police found a document which seemed to be a plan for a prison break, but the prisoner denied knowledge of any plan. Four days later, using the same plans, eight of Dillinger’s friends escaped from the Indiana State Prison, using shotguns and rifles that had been smuggled into their cells. During their escape, they shot two guards.

On October 12, three of the escaped prisoners and a parolee from the same prison showed up at the Lima jail where Dillinger was incarcerated. They told the sheriff that they had come to return Dillinger to the Indiana State Prison for violation of his parole. When the sheriff asked to see their credentials, one of the men pulled a gun, shot the sheriff, and beat him into unconsciousness. Then taking the keys to the jail, the bandits freed Dillinger, locked the sheriff’s wife and a deputy in a cell, and leaving the sheriff to die on the floor, made their getaway. Although none of these men had violated a federal law, the FBI’s assistance was requested in identifying and locating the criminals. The four men were identified as Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark, Charles Makley, and Harry Copeland. Their fingerprint cards in the FBI Identification Division were flagged with red metal tags, indicating that they were wanted. Meanwhile, Dillinger and his gang pulled several bank robberies. They also plundered the police arsenals at Auburn, Indiana and Peru, Indiana, stealing several machine guns, rifles, and revolvers, a quantity of ammunition, and several bulletproof vests.

On December 14, John Hamilton, a Dillinger gang member, shot and killed a police detective in Chicago. A month later, the Dillinger gang killed a police officer during the robbery of the First National Bank of East Chicago, Indiana. Then they made their way to Florida and, subsequently, to Tucson, Arizona. There on January 23, 1934, a fire broke out in the hotel where Clark and Makley were hiding under assumed names. Firemen recognized the men from their photographs, and local police arrested them, as well as Dillinger and Harry Pierpont. They also seized three Thompson submachine guns, two Winchester rifles mounted as machine guns, five bulletproof vests, and more than $25,000 in cash, part of it from the East Chicago robbery. Dillinger was sequestered at the county jail in Crown Point, Indiana to await trial for the murder of the East Chicago police officer. Authorities boasted that the jail was “escape proof.” But on March 3, 1934, Dillinger cowed the guards with what he claimed later was a wooden gun he had whittled.

He forced them to open the door to his cell, then grabbed two machine guns, locked up the guards and several trustees, and fled. It was then that Dillinger made the mistake that would cost him his life. He stole the sheriff’s car and drove across the Indiana-Illinois line, heading for Chicago. By doing that, he violated the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, which made it a federal offense to transport a stolen motor vehicle across a state line. A federal complaint was sworn charging Dillinger with the theft and interstate transportation of the sheriff’s car, which was recovered in Chicago. After the grand jury returned an indictment, the FBI became actively involved in the nationwide search for Dillinger. Meanwhile, Pierpont, Makley, and Clark were returned to Ohio and convicted of the murder of the Lima sheriff. Pierpont and Makley were sentenced to death and Clark to life imprisonment. But in an escape attempt, Makley was killed, and Pierpont was wounded. A month later, Pierpont had recovered sufficiently to be executed. In Chicago, Dillinger joined his girlfriend, Evelyn Frechette. They proceeded to St.

Paul, where Dillinger teamed up with Homer Van Meter, Lester (“Baby Face Nelson”) Gillis, Eddie Green, and Tommy Carroll, among others. The gang’s business prospered as they continued robbing banks of large amounts of money. Then on March 30, 1934, an agent talked to the manager of the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul, who reported two suspicious tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Hellman, who acted nervous and refused to admit the apartment caretaker. The FBI began a surveillance of the Hellman’s apartment. The next day, an agent and a police officer knocked on the door of the apartment. Evelyn Frechette opened the door, but quickly slammed it shut. The agent called for reinforcements to surround the building. While waiting, the agents saw a man enter a hall near the Hellman’s apartment. When questioned, the man, Homer Van Meter, drew a gun. Shots were exchanged, during which Van Meter fled the building and forced a truck driver at gunpoint to drive him to Green’s apartment. Suddenly the door of the Hellman apartment opened and the muzzle of a machine gun began spraying the hallway with lead.

Under cover of the machine gun fire, Dillinger and Evelyn Frechette fled through a back door. They, too, drove to Green’s apartment, where Dillinger was treated for a bullet wound received in the escape. At the Lincoln Court Apartments, the FBI found a Thompson submachine gun with the stock removed, two automatic rifles, one .38 caliber Colt automatic with twenty-shot magazine clips, and two bulletproof vests. Across town, other agents located one of Eddie Green’s hideouts where he and Bessie Skinner had been living as “Mr. and Mrs. Stephens.” On April 3, when Green was located, he attempted to draw his gun, but was shot by the agents. He died in a hospital eight days later. Dillinger and Evelyn Frechette fled to Mooresville, Indiana, where they stayed with his father and half-brother until his wound healed. Then Frechette went to Chicago to visit a friend—and was arrested by the FBI. She was taken to St. Paul for trial on a charge of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive. She was convicted, fined $1,000, and sentenced to two years in prison.

Bessie Skinner, Eddie Green’s girlfriend, got 15 months on the same charge. Meanwhile, Dillinger and Van Meter robbed a police station at Warsaw, Indiana of guns and bulletproof vests. Dillinger stayed for awhile in Upper Michigan, departing just ahead of a posse of FBI agents dispatched there by airplane. Then the FBI received a tip that there had been a sudden influx of rather suspicious guests at the summer resort of Little Bohemia Lodge, about 50 miles north of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. One of them sounded like John Dillinger and another like Baby Face Nelson. From Rhinelander, an FBI task force set out by car for Little Bohemia. Two of the rented cars broke down enroute, and, in the uncommonly cold April weather, some of the agents had to make the trip standing on the running boards of the other cars. Two miles from the resort, the car lights were turned off and the posse proceeded through the darkness. When the cars reached the resort, dogs began barking. The agents spread out to surround the lodge and as they approached, machine gun fire rattled down on them from the roof. Swiftly, the agents took cover.

One of them hurried to a telephone to give directions to additional agents who had arrived in Rhinelander to back up the operation. While the agent was telephoning, the operator broke in to tell him there was trouble at another cottage about two miles away. Special Agent W. Carter Baum, another FBI man, and a constable went there and found a parked car which the constable recognized as belonging to a local resident. They pulled up and identified themselves. Inside the other car, Baby Face Nelson was holding three local residents at gunpoint. He turned, leveled a revolver at the lawmen’s car and ordered them to step out. But without waiting for them to comply, Nelson opened fire. Baum was killed, and the constable and the other agent were severely wounded. Nelson jumped into the Ford they had been using and fled. When the firing had subsided at the Little Bohemia Lodge, Dillinger was gone. When the agents entered the lodge the next morning, they found only three frightened females. Dillinger and five others had fled through a back window before the agents surrounded the house. In Washington, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover assigned Special Agent Samuel A.

Cowley to head the FBI’s investigative efforts against Dillinger. Cowley set up headquarters in Chicago, where he and Melvin Purvis, special agent in charge of the Chicago office, planned their strategy. A squad of agents under Cowley worked with East Chicago policemen in tracking down all tips and rumors. Late in the afternoon of Saturday, July 21, 1934, the madam of a brothel in Gary, Indiana, contacted one of the police officers with information. This woman called herself Anna Sage; however, her real name was Ana Cumpanas, and she had entered the United States from her native Rumania in 1914. Because of the nature of her profession, she was considered an undesirable alien by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and deportation proceedings had been started. Anna was willing to sell the FBI some information about Dillinger for a cash reward, plus the FBI’s help in preventing her deportation. At a meeting with Anna, Cowley and Purvis were cautious. They promised her the reward if her information led to Dillinger’s capture, but said all they could do was call her cooperation to the attention of the Department of Labor, which at that time handled deportation matters.

Satisfied, Anna told the agents that a girlfriend of hers, Polly Hamilton, had visited her establishment with Dillinger. Anna had recognized Dillinger from a newspaper photograph. Anna told the agents that she, Polly Hamilton, and Dillinger probably would be going to the movies the following evening at either the Biograph or the Marbro Theaters. She said that she would notify them when the theater was chosen. She also said that she would wear an orange dress so that they could identify her. On Sunday, July 22, Cowley ordered all agents of the Chicago office to stand by for urgent duty. Anna Sage called that evening to confirm the plans, but she still did not know which theater they would attend. Therefore, agents and policemen were sent to both theaters. At 8:30 p.m., Anna Sage, John Dillinger, and Polly Hamilton strolled into the Biograph Theater to see Clark Gable in "Manhattan Melodrama." Purvis phoned Cowley, who shifted the other men from the Marbro to the Biograph. Cowley also phoned Hoover for instructions. Hoover cautioned them to wait outside rather than risk a shooting match inside the crowded theater.

Each man was instructed not to unnecessarily endanger himself and was told that if Dillinger offered any resistance, it would be each man for himself. At 10:30 p.m., Dillinger, with his two female companions on either side, walked out of the theater and turned to his left. As they walked past the doorway in which Purvis was standing, Purvis lit a cigar as a signal for the other men to close in. Dillinger quickly realized what was happening and acted by instinct. He grabbed a pistol from his right trouser pocket as he ran toward the alley. Five shots were fired from the guns of three FBI agents. Three of the shots hit Dillinger, and he fell face down on the pavement. At 10:50 p.m. on July 22, 1934, John Dillinger was pronounced dead in a little room in the Alexian Brothers Hospital. The agents who fired at Dillinger were Charles B. Winstead, Clarence O. Hurt, and Herman E. Hollis. Each man was commended by J. Edgar Hoover for fearlessness and courageous action. None of them ever said who actually killed Dillinger.

The events of that sultry July night in Chicago marked the beginning of the end of the Gangster Era. Eventually, 27 persons were convicted in federal courts on charges of harboring and aiding and abetting John Dillinger and his cronies during their reign of terror. Baby Face Nelson was fatally wounded on November 27, 1934, in a gun battle with FBI agents in which Special Agents Cowley and Hollis also were killed. Dillinger was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Biograph Theater John Dillinger - Top 10 Prison Escapes - TIME Top 10 Prison Escapes By Alexandra SilverTuesday, Apr. 26, 2011 AP "I know he's a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him," Sheriff Lillian Holley said of John Dillinger, according to a 1934 issue of TIME . The notorious gangster had been taken to Indiana, where he was wanted for killing a policeman, following his capture in Arizona in January of that year. Only months earlier, his cohorts had helped him break out of an Ohio jail where he had been serving time for bank robbery.

Yet contrary to the authorities' boasts, the Crown Point, Ind., jail was as escape-proof as the Titanic was unsinkable. On March 3, 1934, Dillinger, the FBI recounts, used "what he claimed later was a wooden gun he had whittled" to break out. And he imprisoned guards before driving away  in the sheriff's car. "If I ever see John Dillinger," Holley was also quoted as saying, "I'll shoot him dead with my own pistol. This is too ridiculous to talk about." In July that same year, after an intense manhunt, Dillinger was shot dead , outside the Biograph theater in Chicago. Famous Criminals Department of Sociology and Anthropology Wright State University Famous criminals are those individuals whose criminal behaviors become widely known to the general public for their unscrupulous acts. Described below is a sample of individuals whose extreme transgressions have brought the ire or admiration of their communities and the attention of society as famous criminals. Joseph ADONIS (1902 - 1972) Adonis was born Joseph Doto.

Alleged to be vane and self-centered, he changed his name to Joe Adonis, and was known to the inner-circle as "Joey A.". In 1927, with other underworld figures he formed the Seven Group to control the illicit alcohol trade. He was also involved in controlling gambling in sections of New Jersey and New York. In 1951 he pleaded guilty to violating New Jersey's gambling laws and served a two year prison term. Rather then encounter New York's indictment against him for violating their state gambling laws, as well as perjury charges brought about by the Federal Government concerning his citizenship, he accepted deportation to Milan, Italy, where he died of natural causes. Albert ANASTASIA (1903 - 1957) A senior Mafioso leader of New York's underworld, Albert Anastasia was known as the "Lord High Executioner" of Murder, Incorporated. He was involved in numerous violent criminal acts, the narcotics trade and those victimless crimes of gambling and prostitution.

Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's United States Senate Crime Investigating Committee, Anastasia (with known organized crime figures Adonis, Cohen, Costello, Lansky and others) stated he was innocent of any wrong doing and lacked sufficient knowledge concerning the syndicate and its operations. He was shot to death while having a haircut in a New York Hotel. The murder was allegedly perpetrated by individuals representing Mafia leader Vito Genovese. Arizona Donnie Clark "Kate" BARKER (1872 - 1935) Known to the public as the infamous "Ma" Barker, she was born near Springfield, Missouri, and in 1892 married George Barker, with whom she had four sons, (viz.,) Herman, Lloyd, Dock and Fred. She instructed her sons and other known felons of the time on the mechanics of robbing banks and trains. Barker left her husband, undertaking a criminal career as maternal advisor to the so-called "Barker Gang." She was also involved in extortion and kidnapping. Barker was killed in a shoot-out on Lake Weir, Florida, by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents headed by Edward J. Connelley.

Clyde Chestnut BARROW (1909 - 1934) Part of the "Bonnie and Clyde" famous duo, Clyde Barrow was born to a Texas farm family. Prior to living with Bonnie Parker and undertaking a violent crime spree of robbing banks, he was involved in numerous robberies with his brother, Buck Barrow. After serving a prison sentence in Texas, Clyde Barrow increased his violent criminal activities. It was with Bonnie Parker, that Clyde Barrow, his brother Buck and his wife, Blanche, along with a robber named William Jones and a thief named Ray Hamilton, formed the legendary "Barrow Gang." After a succession of robberies and murders, the "Barrow Gang" disintegrated with the killing of Buck Barrow and the arrest of his wife, Blanche. It was on May 23, 1934, that Clyde Barrow with his partner, Bonnie Parker, died in an ambush conducted by famed lawman Frank Hammer and five other law enforcement officers outside of Gibsland, Louisiana. Hammer was known for hunting criminals as prey and attempting to think as they would in order to predict their next activity and implement his plans for capture.

Joseph BONNANO (1905 - 2002) Joseph "Joey Bannanas" Bannano arrived in the United States from Castellammare del Golfa, Italy, and got involved with the Brooklyn Mafia. In 1931, Bonnano with Gagliano, Luciano, Mangano and Profaci was involved with Salvatore Marazano, the "capo di tutti capi" (supreme head) in reorganizing the Sicilian sydndicate into what is currently termed the Cosa Nostra. He became one of the five New York Mafia families. Bonnano began his career in Brooklyn by owning a garment factory and getting involved with usery, drugs and the numbers. He was one of a number of syndicate heads who was arrested by the New York State Police at the famed Apalachin meeting. Being extremely ambitious, Bonnano was once kidnapped in 1964 by the organized crime commission and agreed to retire. He was only one, of a rare few, who was released alive from such an experience. After hiding for almost a year-and-a-half, he returned and got involved in the so-called Banana War for control of his family with his son.

In 1967, Banno had a heart attack. He attempted to retire in Tuscon, Arizona, however, a number of bombing attempts were made against him by members of the syndicate. In their failure, Joseph Bannona finally did retire; his family succumbed to the leadership of one Natale Evola. Theodore Robert BUNDY (1946 - 1988) Primarily known for the sexual assault and strangulation of women, Ted Bundy utilized his charm, physical looks and law studies background to disarm his prey prior to attacking them. On several occasions he attempted to ask for assistance while wearing a false caste in order to get near his victim. He was arrested for the breaking in and entering the rooms of two Florida State University co-eds who he killed. Bundy's fame was brought about by his own attempt to represent his legal interests and the significant number of murders he was alleged to have committed against women in the Pacific Northwest, the West and Florida. After several appeals, he was executed.

Alphonse CAPONE (1900 - 1944) Once known as Public Enemy Number one, Al ("Scar Face") Capone is, perhaps, one of the most famous criminals in America. Coming from an impoverished Italian Neapolitan family, Capone began his career in crime as a Lieutenant in the Five Points gang in Manhattan. Johnny Torrio, head of the Chicago syndicate, offered Capone a position to assist him with Chicago's illict liquor and beer trafficking. Later they expanded into prostitution, gambling and the running of saloons. Violence, murder and mayhem were Capone's trademarks. To insulate himself from the authorities, he corrupted numerous officials as well as used sawn-off shotguns and sub-machine guns to assure his power. Aside from being violent by nature, he was also outgoing, gregarious and flamboyant in his style. It has been alleged that over 500 murders were committed by Capone's henchmen, and well over 700 violent criminals were in his employ.

To acquire Chicago's Gold Coast, he had Dion O'Banion assassinated; to gain control of the Mafia's Unione Sicilione, he had three of the Genna brothers killed while forcing the remaining three brothers to emigrate to Marsala Sicily, Italy. For protection he traveled in a specially designed steel lined automobile. Capone was also involved in ordering the killing of the George "Bugs" Moran gang in the famous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. He served eight years in a federal penitentiary for failure to pay his income taxes and died in 1947 at his estate located in Palm Island, Florida, from syphilis and related causes. Caryl CHESSMAN (1921 - 1960) Known as a "criminal genius" for his ability to extend his death sentence appeal to last for twelve years, Caryl Chessman was also known as the "red light bandit." He would use a red light, similar to a police officer, to stop his victims and then rob, sexual assault and kidnap them. For the later endeavor involving female victims, he was charged under California Penal Law for a capital offense.

While in prison, Chessman wrote three books: TRIAL BY ORDEAL; CELL 2455 DEATH ROW, and THE FACE OF JUSTICE. Chessman was executed in the California State Prison at San Quentin on May 2, 1960, just minutes before Judge Goodman attempted to grant him one more stay of execution. Chessman's fame was based on his ability to extend his execution, his publications and the intricacies of his various legal manuvers. Jeffrey DAHMER (1960 - 1997 ) One of the most bizarre criminals in the 1990s. Jeffrey Dahmer was accused of sadistically murdering, mutilating and canibalizing male victims in his apartment. Court records noted he allegedly dismembered fifteen men or boys in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For several weeks his case brought the attention of the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Milwaukee Journal, as well as the local electronic media and the national media which made him known as a "media criminal." The defense pleaded Dahmer was insane and a necrophilec. Being raised in a broken home, sexually abused as a child and having above average intelligence, Dahmer complemented the classic pattern for a serial murder.

The twelve member jury found him sane. He was sentenced to fifteen life terms in prison since Wisconsin does not have a death penalty. He was clubbed to death in a prison bathroom. Albert Henry DESALVO (1933 - 1973) Known as the "Boston Strangler," DeSalvo was accused of raping and strangulating thirteen women in Boston, Massachussetts. One of his first victims was Anna Slesers, a divorcee and active participant in Latvian endeavors in Boston. She was sexually assaulted and strangled with a cord from her robe. The key or trademark was the manner in which the bow shaped knot was tied with the cord that was used to strangulate the victim, and the way the victim's lower extremities were parted. DeSalvo's killings occurred from August, 1962 to January, 1964. His victims ranged from nineteen to eighty-five years of age. He was identified for police by one victim whom he sexually assualted, but left live. DeSalvo was found guilty on November 26, 1973. He was later stabbed to death with sixteen wounds by fellow inmates in Walpole State Prison.

John Herbert DILLINGER (1903 - 1934) A classic famous criminal, John H. Dillinger (aka) "Gentleman Johnnie," was admired by the impoverished, but to J. Edgard Hoover he was Public Enemy Number One. During the Depression Era he robbed banks and later was involved in numerous murders. His criminal activities began when he was seventeen years old robbing grocery stores or gas stations. He was brought up in Indianapolis, Indiana, in a Quaker family. One of the first banks he robbed was in Daleville, Indiana, which set the pattern for his adult criminal endeavors. In January, 1934, Dillinger was arrested for killing police officer William O'Malley during a East Chicago bank robbery. While waiting for trial at Crown Point Prison in Indiana, Dilinger carved a wooden automatic pistol and used it on jailer Sam Cahoon to gain his noted escape. After several other crime sprees, on Sunday evening, July 22, 1934, he was shot to death by FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis outside the Biograph Theatre in Chicago.

He was identified by Anna Sage, the famed "Lady in Red," because of the dark red colored dress she wore when she accompanied Dillinger that fateful Sunday evening. John Wayne GACY, JR. (1942 - 1994) Gacy's fame was through his serial killing of male prostitutes in the 1970s. Born during World War II, Gacy was a building contractor in Northern Illinois. He was cited for killing over thirty individuals whose remains he buried in his home or on his property in a Chicago suburb. The luried manner in which he dismembered his victim's bodies brought him national attention through the media as a mass murderer. Gary GILMORE (1940 - 1977) Gilmore's crime as a robber and murderer did not contribute to his fame as did his case, which reinstated the death penalty in the United States. Throughout his stay at the Utah State Prison he did not contest his execution. He requested the state to execute him or otherwise, if he was released from prison, he would probably return to a life of violent crime. On appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court brought back capital punishment and Gilmore was executed by the State of Utah.

The death penalty once again became part of the punitive aspect of the American system of criminal justice. John GOTTI (1940 - 2002) John Gotti was born in South Bronx, New York. His family originated from Naples, Italy. He began his criminal activities as a gang leader of the Fulton-Rockaway Boys gang. Later, as a teenager, he became a member of Carmine Fatico's syndicate and got involved in auto theft, burglaries and related crimes. In 1969, Gotti was arrested and found guilty of hijacking goods at Kennedy International Airport. When he was released from prison in 1972, the syndicated promoted him to acting capo of the Bergen Gang of the Gambino Family. In 1973, he assisted in the killing of James McBratney, who it was alleged, kidnapped and murdered Carol Gambino's nephew. After serving two years in the Green Haven Prison for McBratney's killing, Gotti assumed greater authority and power in the Gambino crime family and got involved in racketeering, usery and gambling. Three attempts were made by Federal proseuctors to prosecute Gotti but they failed.

In 1992, Gotti was finally indicted and found guilty of racketeering and the murder of ex-godfather Paul Castellano. Gotti's flamboyant behavior, dress, charitable donations, bantering with the media and apprarent enjoyment of teasing the authorities brought him national celebrity status. John HINCKLEY, JR. (1955 - ) Hinckley was raised in a very affluent family in Colorado; throughout his maturation period he demonstrated signs of extreme withdrawl. At twenty-six years of age, he attempted to assassinate, with a handgun, President Ronald Reagan. Hinckely's insanity plea brought national attention and attempts for handgun legislation. He was determined insane and placed for treatment in St. Elizabeth Hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, DC. In his attempt on the President's life, several individuals were wounded. One of them was James Brady, the President's press secretary. Through this incident, Mr. Brady and his spouse have attempted on numerous occasions to have Congress pass the Brady Bill which would limit access time to obtaining a handgun. Charles H. KEATING, JR. (1923 - ) Keating is an example of a white collar criminal par excellence.

Nationally known for his insider trading of securities, the selling of over $4.5 billion of uninsured junk bonds and the fraudulent sale of a parent company's assets, Keating was the primary architect with four other associates (Judy J. Wischner, Charles H. Keating III, Robert M. Wurzelbacher and Andrew F. Liggett) for the failure of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association and its parent company - American Continental Corporation. He is noted for possibly contributing to the fall of many associations within the savings and loan industry in the early 1990s. In addition, it was alleged he provided significant monies for the political campaigns of Senators Alan Cranston, Donald Riegle and Dennis DeConcini for their political support. On April 10, 1992, under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ACT (RICO), Keating was found guilty of fraud and given ten years in prison. The accounting firm of Ernst and Young, and the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue agreed to pay damages.

Charles LUCIANO (1897 - 1962) A key figure in attempting to nationalize organize crime, Luciano, a Sicilian overlord of New York crime was known as "Lucky." He was involved in the 1930s in New York City prostitution and drug trafficking. In 1936 he was found guilty of running a prostitution ring and sentenced to Dannemora New York State Prison. Six years later he was transferred to Great Meadow Prison where he held a number of meetings with recognized underworld figures to assist the United States Government's war efforts. Luciano is attributed with assuring the rackets did not harm the New York docks during World War II, as well as providing underground saboteurs in Sicily. For this activity, in 1946, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, had Luciano taken to Ellis Island and deported to Italy. For several years he lived near his home town of Lercara Friddi and then moved to Havana, Cuba, to run his "Dope International" business. Deported back to Italy by President Batistista, he died of natural causes.

Charles MANSON (1934 - ) A brutal killer and cult leader, Manson was known for the 1969 Sharon Tate murders he committed with his followers (i.e.,) the Manson Family, involving actress Sharon Tate and six other individuals. He portrayed himself as a "savior" who violently opposed society. Manson had disfigured his anatonmy and had branded his forehead with the letter "X" to signify being an outcast. The violent perversity of his acts in having his followers hack to death their victims and write in blood the the words "pig" and "war" reflected his satanic orientation. He and his followers were also charged and found guilty in murdering Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in the same manner. Lee Harvey OSWALD (1939 - 1963) Oswald's fame is historically attributed to his alleged assassination, in 1963, of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was an ex-marine who not only served but lived in Russia, married a native Russian woman (Marina), spoke Russian fluently, was knowledgeable about the socio-ecnomic and political factors characterizing the Soviet Union, and had a close familiarity with weapons.

The Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole perpetrator in killing President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, from the Texas School Book Depository. Twenty-nine years later (1992), controversy emerged concerning a number of possible conspiracy theories involving the Central Intelligence Agency, organized crime figures, the former Soviet Union, highly placed United States Government officials and others in assisting Oswald. None of the proposed conspiracy theories have been substantiated. James Earl RAY (1928 - 1998) Ray has been known as the man who shot and killed Dr. Martin Luther King on his hotel veranda in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. Belonging to a white supremacy group, he exposed a philosophy of hate crime. Although not established, it is conjectured he was part of a conspiracy group. While serving time for King's assassination, he escaped from prison in Tennessee. Authorities were able to locate and arrest him. Ray has made several attempts at the appeal process. He died of liver cancer. Benjamin SIEGEL (1906 - 1947) Born in the lower east side of New York City, Benjamin Siegel (aka "Bugsy" Siegel) was a colorful mobster.

Attributed to his fame was his involvement with select stars from the motion picture industry in the 1930s and 40s, and in establishing the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas for gambling purposes on behalf of the Mafia. Siegel began his criminal career as a murderer, extortionist, gambler and enforcer for the mob on the east coast. In the mid 1930s the Mafiosi had Siegel move to the west coast where he gained significant control over the trafficking of drugs, select motion picture stars and minor actors, as well as a gambling wire service. Given his outoing personality, physical appeal and ability to socialize, Siegel initially represented the mob's interests in California and Nevada quite well. It has been alleged he knew such individuals as George Raft, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and even a Countess named Dorothy DiFrasso. In 1946 he secretly married Virginia Hill, a bag lady for the syndicate. Siegel and Hill had a tumultuous relationship.

By failing to pay back the mob for the monies he borrowed to build the Flamingo Hotel, he was murdered with a .30-30 carbine while sitting on a coach in the plush living room of Virginia Hill's home in Beverly Hills, California. Charles STARKWEATHER (1940 - 1959) Along with his adolescent companion, Caril Ann Fugate, mass murder Starkweather killed and mutilated his victims in the mid 1950s. He began his killing rampage on December 1, 1957, when he shot a teenage gas station attendant. The illogical approach to the selection of his victims, coupled with his obsessive identity of teenage idol and motion picture actor, James Dean, led to his fame. It was on January 21, 1958, that Starkweather increased the momentum to his killing pattern by shooting Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bartlett, Caril's mother and step-father. He also battered to death her one year old baby step sister.

Six days later on January 27, 1958, he killed a teenage boy and girl as well as an elderly male presumed to be in his 70s. In the end, Starkweather killed a total of eleven people prior to being caught and executed in the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Joseph M. VALACHI (1904 - 1971) Valachi's life was characterized by violence and crime. During his pre-teenage years, he served time in a reform school for assaulting fellow students. His introduction to organized crime started with his marriage to Mildred Reina, who was the daughter of an underworld figure. Valachia served as a "torpedo" (a contracted murderer), was involved in drug trafficking, extortion and gambling. While serving time in prison, it is alleged he was given the kiss of death by former boss Vito Genovese for supposedly agreeing to be an informant for the Federal Government. After three unsuccessful attempts were made on his life in prison, Valachi clubbed to death a fellow inmate he believed was the possible assassin. The man he assaulted and killed had no association with the Mafia.

Since Valachi never had any intention of becoming an informant, the attempts made on his life infuriated him and caused him to vindictively provide the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) and Senator McClellan's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations with insider information. It was Valachi's decision to go public that created his fame. His testimonies provided the government with precise data on the structure, operation, personalities, issues and events that characterized organized crime. Conclusion Throughout human history there have been individuals who aggressively violated the conventional norms of society. The nature of their anti-social behavior contributed to their fame. The individuals briefly identified in this section reflect the diverse ethnic, education, gender, racial, economic and social stratas that characterize a famous criminal. For a more inclusive portrait of such criminals and other violent personalities, the reader should examine those publications cited in the reference section. This site is only a partial listing. James A. Adamitis, Ph.D. Story Of The Notorious John Dillinger In The 1930s Through Pictures | Gold is Money - The Premier Gold and Silver Forum Gold is Money - The Premier Gold and Silver Forum Dismiss Notice Good Thur Morning!

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searcher Mother Lode Found Site Supporter ++ Mother Lode Joined: 113 [h=3]Story of The Notorious John Dillinger in the 1930s Through Pictures[/h] When notorious outlaw John Dillinger was gunned down on Lincoln Avenue on a steamy July night in 1934, his death ended a months-long manhunt that captivated the press and the public. John Herbert Dillinger was a Depression-era bank robber from Indiana who's reign of illegal activity lasted only one year. From September 1933 until July 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, killing 10 men, wounding 7 others, robbing banks and police arsenals, and staging 3 jail breaks. In June 1934, Dillinger was named America's first Public Enemy Number One by the FBI. On July 22, 1934, Dillinger was shot and killed by the FBI as he walked out of the Biograph Theater on Chicago's north side. Anna Sage, his friend, had betrayed him to the FBI in return for not getting deported to her home country of Romania.

Sage became known as the "Woman in Red" for her choice of clothing that day. [TABLE="class: tr-caption-container, align: center"] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption, align: center"]Indiana state police surround the house where two of the convicts were supposed to have been from the Michigan City prison break, circa Oct. 1933. On Sept. 26, 1933, ten convicts, lead by John 'Red' Hamilton, broke out of the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, using guns smuggled to them by John Dillinger. In the coming days after the prison break, the Chicago Tribune reported over "500 vigilantes, police and deputy sherriffs" searched the farming districts near Michigan City for the felons. Dillinger, who was in a jail cell in Lima, Ohio, engineered the escape of the ten convicts, who became known as Dillinger's gang. Less than a month after they escaped from Michigan City, several of Dillinger's gang broke him out of the jail in Lima, Ohio.

— Chicago Tribune historical photo[/TD] [/TR] [TABLE="class: tr-caption-container, align: center"] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption, align: center"]John Dillinger is handcuffed and guarded as he smokes during a court recess while Deputy Sheriff R. M. Pierce, left, looks on during Dillinger's hearing at Crown Point, Indiana in the first weeks of February 1934. Dillinger was charged with killing police officer William O'Malley, 43, during a bank robbery in East Chicago, Indiana on Jan. 15, 1934. His trail date was set for March 12, 1934. Dillinger would break out of the Crown Point, Indiana jail on March 3, 1934. — Chicago Tribune historical photo[/TD] [/TR] [TABLE="class: tr-caption-container, align: center"] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption, align: center"]Anna Sage, nicknamed the "Women in Red", at the Sheffield Avenue police station in July 1934.

Sage, who wore red or orange as a mark for the FBI, had been with John Dillinger when he was shot and killed by the FBI outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934. Sage said she made a deal with famous FBI agent Melvin Purvis. In exchange for information on Dillinger's whereabouts, she would not be deported to her home country of Romania for running a brothel. — Chicago Tribune historical photo[/TD] [/TR] [TABLE="class: tr-caption-container, align: center"] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption, align: center"]People stand around the blood stain from John H. Dillinger, 32, in the alley behind the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Dillinger was shot and killed by FBI agents on July 22, 1934 after receiving a tip from Dillinger's friend Anna Sage. Sage, known as the "Woman in Red," told authorities that she, Dillinger, and Dillinger's girlfriend Polly Hamilton Keele would be at the movies and to look for her dressed in red. Some reports say Sage was actually dressed in orange.

— Chicago Tribune historical photo[/TD] [/TR] [TABLE="class: tr-caption-container, align: center"] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption, align: center"]Prof. D. E. Ashworth lifts a plaster death mask off the face of John Dillinger while his students watch on July 23, 1934 at the Cook County Morgue in Chicago. Prof. Ashworth, of the Worsham College of Mortuary Science, had told employees at the morgue the he had permission to create the mask, but didn't. Ashworth and his students were ousted from the morgue and the partially completed mask was confiscated by the police. Unbeknownst to the FBI, a complimentary copy of another death mask was sent to the bureau from the Reliance Dental Corporation, who also did not have permission. To this day, there is controversy over how many death masks were made of Dillinger's face and the authenticity of the masks.

— Chicago Tribune historical photo[/TD] [/TR] [TABLE="class: tr-caption-container, align: center"] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD="class: tr-caption, align: center"]John Dillinger Sr., seated (the father of notorious gangster John Dillinger), signs a contract to appear at the Walk-a-thon at Calumet City, Ill., while Frank Gladdin, general manager of the Metropolitan Vaudeville Agency, watches at the Woods Theater building on Aug. 28, 1934. With Dillinger Sr. are, from left, Frances Dillinger, 12, Doris Dillinger, 16 (both step-sisters of John Dillinger Jr.), Mrs. Audrey Hancock, (John Dillinger Jr.'s sister), and her husband Mr. Emmett Hancock. The Dillinger family, along with John Jr.'s girlfriend Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, toured with a theatrical production called "Crime Doesn't Pay" after Dillinger's death.

— Chicago Tribune historical photo :: Forensic Science :: Care2 Groups Forensic Science | The Biograph Theater as re-created for the upcoming movie Public Enemies, directed by Michael Mann and starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. Courtesy of Universal Pictures. One of the most famous cases in our 100-year history celebrates an anniversary today: On July 22, 1934, the gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago, moments after leaving the Biograph Theater, where, ironically, he had watched a gangster film starring Clark Gable. Please stay tuned for the next installment..... | John Dillinger, Public Enemy #1 In the Depression years of the early 1930s, Dillingers bank robberies, shootouts, and jailbreaks earned him nationwide notoriety, but to the Bureau, he was just Public Enemy #1. And after months pursuing him, a tip led Melvin Purvis, Special Agent in Charge ofof our Chicago office, to the Biograph on a hot Sunday night. The day before, Purvis and Special Agent Samuel A. Cowley, who had been appointed by Director J.

Edgar Hoover to head the Dillinger investigation, had met with a woman calling herself Anna Sage, a friend of Dillingers girlfriend, Polly Hamilton. She was hoping that her cooperation with the authorities would earn her reward money and keep her from being deported to her native Romania. She told Purvis that Dillinger planned to take both her and Hamilton to a Sunday evening movie at the Biograph or the Marbro. Stakeouts were arranged for both theaters. A hand-written document from our Dillinger file, a diagram of the Biograph, illustrates the placement of some 20 men around the theater and across the street. The diagram shows the letters A, B, and C outside the theater box office, with an X next to each letter. A legend identifies the significance of the letters: Dillinger companion, Dillinger, informant." A diagram of the stakeout of the Biograph Theater from our files 8 years ago | The informantAnna Sagecalled Purvis at 8:30 p.m. that Sunday to say they were going to the Biograph.

Two hours later, Dillinger emerged from the theater with his two companions. Purvis, standing nearby, lit a cigar. It was the signal for his men to move in. As they did, Dillinger realized what was happening and reached for his pistol. Agents fired, and Dillinger was hit. He staggered, then fell. Dillingers death signaled the beginning of the end of the Gangster Era, but the nations fascination with those times lives on. A new movie about Dillinger, directed by Michael Mann, is scheduled for release next July. The film, Public Enemies, stars Johnny Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale as Purvis. 8 years ago | Mann, a Chicago native, spared no expense to re-create the Biograph Theater and the look and feel of 1930s-era Chicago for the film. Getting it visually right requires a lot of dedication, he explains, thanking us for our spectacular cooperation in helping to make the film authentic.

The actual Colt .380 that Dillinger reached for as agents were closing in Ross Rice, our spokesman in the Chicago field office, says that when he compared the movie sets with archival photos from those days, you couldnt tell the difference. I felt like I was stepping back in time. 8 years ago | Ross Rice, our spokesman in the Chicago field office, says that when he compared the movie sets with archival photos from those days, you couldnt tell the difference. I felt like I was stepping back in time. On Lincoln Avenue, where the Biograph still stands, the film crew essentially rented out the entire block, Rice says. The façade of every building was redone to look exactly as it did on that steamy night when Dillinger went to see Manhattan Melodrama. Attention was paid to every detail, from the streetlights to the trolley tracks right down to replacing the bricks on the street. 8 years ago | On Lincoln Avenue, where the Biograph still stands, the film crew essentially rented out the entire block, Rice says.

The façade of every building was redone to look exactly as it did on that steamy night when Dillinger went to see Manhattan Melodrama. Attention was paid to every detail, from the streetlights to the trolley tracks right down to replacing the bricks on the street. Mann says the film also strives for  eriod-accurate psychology, to help illuminate inner thoughts and motivations of Purvis and Dillinger. That process included talking with agents while doing research for the film. Their zeal and passion, Mann says, helped him understand just how badly Purvis wanted to catch Public Enemy #1. | John Dillinger During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn't understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Herbert Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era, and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, was a notorious and vicious thief.

From September, 1933, until July, 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, killing 10 men, wounding 7 others, robbing banks and police arsenals, and staging 3 jail breaks -- killing a sheriff during one and wounding 2 guards in another. 8 years ago | John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, a middle-class residential neighborhood. His father, a hardworking grocer, raised him in an atmosphere of disciplinary extremes, harsh and repressive on some occasions, but generous and permissive on others. John's mother died when he was three, and when his father remarried six years later, John resented his stepmother. In adolescence, the flaws in his bewildering personality became evident and he was frequently in trouble. Finally, he quit school and got a job in a machine shop in Indianapolis. Although intelligent and a good worker, he soon became bored and often stayed out all night.

His father, worried that the temptations of the city were corrupting his teenaged son, sold his property in Indianapolis and moved his family to a farm near Mooresville, Indiana. However, John reacted no better to rural life than he had to that in the city and soon began to run wild again. 8 years ago | A break with his father and trouble with the law (auto theft) led him to enlist in the Navy. There he soon got into trouble and deserted his ship when it docked in Boston. Returning to Mooresville, he married 16-year-old Beryl Hovius in 1924. A dazzling dream of bright lights and excitement led the newlyweds to Indianapolis. Dillinger had no luck finding work in the city and joined the town pool shark, Ed Singleton, in his search for easy money. In their first attempt, they tried to rob a Mooresville grocer, but were quickly apprehended. Singleton pleaded not guilty, stood trial, and was sentenced to two years.

Dillinger, following his father's advice, confessed, was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony, and received joint sentences of 2 to 14 years and 10 to 20 years in the Indiana State Prison. Stunned by the harsh sentence, Dillinger became a tortured, bitter man in prison. 8 years ago | In frisking Dillinger, the Lima police found a document which seemed to be a plan for a prison break, but the prisoner denied knowledge of any plan. Four days later, using the same plans, eight of Dillinger's friends escaped from the Indiana State Prison, using shotguns and rifles which had been smuggled into their cells. During their escape, they shot two guards. On October 12, three of the escaped prisoners and a parolee from the same prison showed up at the Lima jail where Dillinger was incarcerated. They told the sheriff that they had come to return Dillinger to the Indiana State Prison for violation of his parole. 8 years ago | When the sheriff asked to see their credentials, one of the men pulled a gun, shot the sheriff and beat him into unconsciousness.

Then taking the keys to the jail, the bandits freed Dillinger, locked the sheriff's wife and a deputy in a cell, and leaving the sheriff to die on the floor, made their getaway. Although none of these men had violated a Federal law, the FBI's assistance was requested in identifying and locating the criminals. The four men were identified as Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark, Charles Makley, and Harry Copeland. Their fingerprint cards in the FBI Identification Division were flagged with red metal tags, indicating that they were wanted. 8 years ago | Meanwhile, Dillinger and his gang pulled several bank robberies. They also plundered the police arsenals at Auburn, Indiana, and Peru, Indiana, stealing several machine guns, rifles, and revolvers, a quantity of ammunition, and several bulletproof vests. On December 14, John Hamilton, a Dillinger gang member, shot and killed a police detective in Chicago. A month later, the Dillinger gang killed a police officer during the robbery of the First National Bank of East Chicago, Indiana. Then they made their way to Florida and, subsequently, to Tucson, Arizona.

There on January 23, 1934, a fire broke out in the hotel where Clark and Makley were hiding under assumed names. Firemen recognized the men from their photographs, and local police arrested them, as well as Dillinger and Harry Pierpont. They also seized 3 Thompson submachine guns, 2 Winchester rifles mounted as machine guns, 5 bulletproof vests, and more than $25,000 in cash, part of it from the East Chicago robbery. Dillinger was sequestered at the county jail in Crown Point, Indiana, to await trial for the murder of the East Chicago police officer. Authorities boasted that the jail was "escape proof." But on March 3, 1934, Dillinger cowed the guards with what he claimed later was a wooden gun he had whittled. He forced them to open the door to his cell, then grabbed two machine guns, locked up the guards and several trustees, and fled. 8 years ago | Meanwhile, Pierpont, Makley, and Clark were returned to Ohio and convicted of the murder of the Lima sheriff. Pierpont and Makley were sentenced to death, and Clark to life imprisonment.

But in an escape attempt, Makley was killed and Pierpont was wounded. A month later, Pierpont had recovered sufficiently to be executed. In Chicago, Dillinger joined his girlfriend, Evelyn Frechette. They proceeded to St. Paul, where Dillinger teamed up with Homer Van Meter, Lester ("Baby Face Nelson") Gillis, Eddie Green, and Tommy Carroll, among others. The gang's business prospered as they continued robbing banks of large amounts of money. 8 years ago | Then on March 30, 1934, an Agent talked to the manager of the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul, who reported two suspicious tenants, Mr. and Mrs. Hellman, who acted nervous and refused to admit the apartment caretaker. The FBI began a surveillance of the Hellman's apartment. The next day, an Agent and a police officer knocked on the door of the apartment. Evelyn Frechette opened the door, but quickly slammed it shut. The Agent called for reinforcements to surround the building. John Dillinger's Colt .380 While waiting, the Agents saw a man enter a hall near the Hellman's apartment.

When questioned, the man, Homer Van Meter, drew a gun. Shots were exchanged, during which Van Meter fled the building and forced a truck driver at gunpoint to drive him to Green's apartment. Suddenly the door of the Hellman apartment opened and the muzzle of a machine gun began spraying the hallway with lead. Under cover of the machine gun fire, Dillinger and Evelyn Frechette fled through a back door. They, too, drove to Green's apartment, where Dillinger was treated for a bullet wound received in the escape. 8 years ago | At the Lincoln Court Apartments, the FBI found a Thompson submachine gun with the stock removed, two automatic rifles, one .38 caliber Colt automatic with twenty-shot magazine clips, and two bulletproof vests. Across town, other Agents located one of Eddie Green's hideouts where he and Bessie Skinner had been living as "Mr. and Mrs. Stephens." On April 3, when Green was located, he attempted to draw his gun, but was shot by the Agents. He died in a hospital eight days later.

Dillinger and Evelyn Frechette fled to Mooresville, Indiana, where they stayed with his father and half-brother until his wound healed. Then Frechette went to Chicago to visit a friend--and was arrested by the FBI. She was taken to St. Paul for trial on a charge of conspiracy to harbor a fugitive. She was convicted, fined $1,000, and sentenced to two years in prison. Bessie Skinner, Eddie Green's girlfriend, got 15 months on the same charge. 8 years ago | Meanwhile, Dillinger and Van Meter robbed a police station at Warsaw, Indiana, of guns and bulletproof vests. Dillinger stayed for awhile in Upper Michigan, departing just ahead of a posse of FBI Agents dispatched there by airplane. Then the FBI received a tip that there had been a sudden influx of rather suspicious guests at the summer resort of Little Bohemia Lodge, about 50 miles north of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. One of them sounded like John Dillinger and another like "Baby Face Nelson." From Rhinelander, an FBI task force set out by car for Little Bohemia.

Two of the rented cars broke down enroute, and, in the uncommonly cold April weather, some of the Agents had to make the trip standing on the running boards of the other cars. Two miles from the resort, the car lights were turned off and the posse proceeded through the darkness. When the cars reached the resort, dogs began barking. The Agents spread out to surround the lodge and as they approached, machine gun fire rattled down on them from the roof. Swiftly, the Agents took cover. One of them hurried to a telephone to give directions to additional Agents who had arrived in Rhinelander to back up the operation. 8 years ago | While the Agent was telephoning, the operator broke in to tell him there was trouble at another cottage about two miles away. Special Agent W. Carter Baum, another FBI man, and a constable went there and found a parked car which the constable recognized as belonging to a local resident. They pulled up and identified themselves. John Dillinger's Wanted Poster Inside the other car, "Baby Face Nelson" was holding three local residents at gunpoint. He turned, leveled a revolver at the lawmen's car, and ordered them to step out.

But without waiting for them to comply, Nelson opened fire. Baum was killed, and the constable and the other Agent were severely wounded. Nelson jumped into the Ford they had been using and fled. 8 years ago | When the firing had subsided at the Little Bohemia Lodge, Dillinger was gone. When the Agents entered the lodge the next morning, they found only three frightened females. Dillinger and five others had fled through a back window before the Agents surrounded the house. In Washington, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover assigned Special Agent Samuel A. Cowley to head the FBI's investigative efforts against Dillinger. Cowley set up headquarters in Chicago, where he and Melvin Purvis, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office, planned their strategy. A squad of Agents under Cowley worked with East Chicago policemen in tracking down all tips and rumors. 8 years ago | Late in the afternoon of Saturday, July 21, 1934, the madam of a brothel in Gary, Indiana, contacted one of the police officers with information.

This woman called herself Anna Sage, however, her real name was Ana Cumpanas, and she had entered the United States from her native Rumania in 1914. Because of the nature of her profession, she was considered an undesirable alien by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and deportation proceedings had been started. Anna was willing to sell the FBI some information about Dillinger for a cash reward, plus the FBI's help in preventing her deportation. At a meeting with Anna, Cowley and Purvis were cautious. They promised her the reward if her information led to Dillinger's capture, but said all they could do was call her cooperation to the attention of the Department of Labor, which at that time handled deportation matters. Satisfied, Anna told the Agents that a girlfriend of hers, Polly Hamilton, had visited her establishment with Dillinger. Anna had recognized Dillinger from a newspaper photograph. 8 years ago | Anna told the Agents that she, Polly Hamilton, and Dillinger probably would be going to the movies the following evening at either the Biograph or the Marbro Theaters. She said that she would notify them when the theater was chosen.

She also said that she would wear a red dress so that they could identify her. Special Agent in Charge Melvin Purvis On Sunday, July 22, Cowley ordered all Agents of the Chicago office to stand by for urgent duty. Anna Sage called that evening to confirm the plans, but she still did not know which theater they would attend. Therefore, Agents and policemen were sent to both theaters. At 8:30 p.m., Anna Sage, John Dillinger, and Polly Hamilton strolled into the Biograph Theater to see Clark Gable in "Manhattan Melodrama." Purvis phoned Cowley, who shifted the other men from the Marbro to the Biograph. 8 years ago | Cowley also phoned Hoover for instructions. Hoover cautioned them to wait outside rather than risk a shooting match inside the crowded theater. Each man was instructed not to unnecessarily endanger himself and was told that if Dillinger offered any resistance, it would be each man for himself. At 10:30 p.m., Dillinger, with his two female companions on either side, walked out of the theater and turned to his left.

As they walked past the doorway in which Purvis was standing, Purvis lit a cigar as a signal for the other men to close in. Dillinger quickly realized what was happening and acted by instinct. He grabbed a pistol from his right trouser pocket as he ran toward the alley. Five shots were fired from the guns of three FBI Agents. Three of the shots hit Dillinger and he fell face down on the pavement. At 10:50 p.m. on July 22, 1934, John Dillinger was pronounced dead in a little room in the Alexian Brothers Hospital. | Biograph Theater The Agents who fired at Dillinger were Charles B. Winstead, Clarence O. Hurt, and Herman E. Hollis. Each man was commended by J. Edgar Hoover for fearlessness and courageous action. None of them ever said who actually killed Dillinger. The events of that sultry July night in Chicago marked the beginning of the end of the Gangster Era. Eventually, 27 persons were convicted in Federal courts on charges of harboring, and aiding and abetting John Dillinger and his cronies during their reign of terror.

"Baby Face Nelson" was fatally wounded on November 27, 1934, in a gun battle with FBI Agents in which Special Agents Cowley and Hollis also were killed. Dillinger was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Question: Biograph Theater in Chicago is notable as the site of the killing of which notorious personality in 1934?
Answer: John Dillinger