Claica;o Sunday Tribune Dillinger's Happy Hunting Ground tent to rob, and sentenced and quett; Hubert Dillinger, brother committed to the re- Record of Outlawry and of the prisoner, and Evelyn Fre- formatory for a term of ten to chette, 's woman. twenty-one years." Another caller was Meyer Further, it mentioned that the Politics in Indiana Bogue. Piquett referred to him trial judge recommended, in a as an ••alibi witness." This lengthy statement, that clemen- was unknown. The governor, erers, Pierpont, Makley, and Bogue was an unsavory charac- cy be granted, and that the state who was even then being reo Clark, and three women. ter. He had been twice In the

commission on clemency, II after ferred to as I. Emperor McNutt They arrived in Tucson on Jan. San Quentin penitentiary In careful investigation," recom- of Indiana," tried gracefully to 22. Three days later all were California. He had served a mended parole. kiss away any criticisms. He captured. The men surrendered term in the City prison At the time, and In view of the said that II in the spring, when without firing ash 0 t. The for jewel and had been documents on which it was the sap begins to flow, the boys women were also taken into cus- let out only a few months before. based, the governor's action ap- want to get out." tody. That should have been His record should have been well peared to be of a routine nature. Other Indiana folk were not the end ot the Dillinger career. known in Indiana. It was much later when it was so complaisant about this new Three states sought to extra- The sherif asserted that all discovered that some of these deal in springs. Former Gov- dlte the outlaws. Wisconsin these visitors were searched; documents were extremely mls- ernor Leslie told why it was easy wanted them for the Racine job. that she personally saw that leading. Dillinger was (let it to get hardened felons out. Mc- Indiana pleaded to be allowed to Eve 1y n Frechette smuggled ..be remembered) sentenced in Nutt, granted dictatorial powers try Dillinger for the O'Malley nothing in. She added that their 1924, not 1930; Allen county is by a subservient legislature, had murder. Ohio wanted the three conversations with the prisoner (Tribune pboto.) more than a hundred miles from dismissed an expert warden and killers of Sherif Sarber. Gov- had been witnessed by guards. MEL YIN PURVIS Morgan county. Dillinger's rec- had replaced him with an Inex- ernor Moeur of Arizona ruled in "Nobody could have taken a ord as a trouble maker was mini- perienced man. Also, Leslie favor of Indiana, with an under- gun in," was the sherif's opinion. (Continued from paqe one.) mized. pointed out, he had removed standing that the Hoosier state Still these were artful people, A bullet fired into the back of The 0 n Iy explanation ever sixty-nlne of the 120 Michigan would cooperate with Ohio. these visitors. Remember Dll- his head killed Dillinger. Dead made by McNutt and his cohorts City guards-all men of expert- Dillinger, who had confided to linger had boasted of having men make no revelations. His (Tribune pboto.) was that thete had been clerical ence - and had replaced them Sherif John Belton that he had $100,000, and it was known he own story of the alliances bought ANNA SAGE ., ." the woman in r.cf." errors. It was also brought out with political appointees. $100,000cached away and II could paid handsomely for every favor in Indiana and elsewhere, with that warnings about the prison- get it as soon as I reach Indi- shown him. Piquett was his pay- Then the governor promised have a pistol. He had whittled the loot of his holdups, remains er's character were ignored. H. ana," was lifted into a plane on oft man (this was disclosed had been extremely active In pre- a nul Investigation. He would a piece of wood with a safety untold. In part it is suppressed. W. Claudy, a deputy warden at Jan. 30. With him were Deputy later). Evelyn Frechette was a senting evidence to this grand appoint an Impartial commission razor blade. He had made the jury. The jury, incidentally, sup- Several times the Indiana state Michigan Cit y, a Republican Sherif Carroll Holley of Lake gang moll. Bogue was a slip- to investigate. None was ap- stick into the form of a pistol administration has gone through holdover, stated later that he county, Indiana, and Chief of pery criminal who drew no lines ported the theory that the comic pointed. The prison board of and had darkened it with shoe the form of opening an investi- had written two letters opposing Police Nicholas Makar of East of honesty. wooden gun cowed the jail trustees gathered and made a polish. With this toy he had guards. gation. . It has never finished the parole. Dillinger, he said, . Holley is a cousin of With their aid or without, Dll- report. It whitewashed the ad- fooled a jallful of guards. This one. was manifestly a dangerous Blunk was tried for aiding Dil- ministration. As a gesture one was incredible. But not more One Inquiry was begun in the criminal. linger, insisted that the bandit man was fired. That man was incredible than the rest of the fall of 1934 when McNutt was When the quoted reference to had a real pistol, and was acquit- Claudy, the RepUblican who had yarn. ted. The case against Cahoon running his candidate, Sherman Judge Williams' statement be- wanted to keep Dillinger in. He The inescapable fact was that was dropped. Official Indiana Minton, for the United States came public the jurist protested had dared the administration to Indiana had once again turned senate. Nothing m u c h hap- that his stand had been misrep- chose to torget the Dillinger epl- pened, and after election day the make a real investigation ot the the most vicious of American sode. resented. He declared and break. criminals loose on the public. whole matter was allowed to proved that he had recommend· After forwarding the pistols Attorney G e n e r a 1 Cummings • drop. ed leniency tow a r d Dillinger • • to his friends in Michigan City, said it was a disgrace. Sherif Dillinger 1i v e d nearly five • • only if the record justified clem- • Dillinger went back to his rob- Holley said Dillinger was just months after his flight from ency. McNutt continued in his bery work. He knocked over a lucky. James Posey, a Negro Crown Point. He was hunted The first chapter in the life effort to shift blame to the judge. bank in Pennsylvania and two prisoner, reported that "every- like the wild beast he was. The of Dillinger begins with his birth He even maintained that the in Ohio, at Dayton and Bluffton. body knew John was going to in 1902 and ends with his parole court had dealt Inequitably by . middle west armed against him But some efficient Ohio police- get out today." and G-men by the hundreds went from the Michigan City prison giving Singleton a light penalty men were after him. Even be- Governor McNutt made the on his trail. Rewards for a total in May, 1933. and Dillinger a severe one. Al- fore the convicts escaped he had best of a bad situation for the of $15,000 were offered for his His birthplace was a farm though Judge Williams showed been apprehended. With almost state. He saw a .ehance to take capture. twenty miles southwest of In- that Singleton had not been tried absurd ease he was seized in the the heat off his administration, With Evelyn Frechette and dianapolis. His father, indus- before him, the governor made home of a woman friend in Day- In disfavor because of the Michi· Hamilton, Dillinger motored to trious and of good character, no retraction. ton. gan City break, and shift it to St. Paul and then back to Indl- took him as a boy to that elty. That was how John Dillinger After some years the family Charged with the Blu1'tton the authorities at Crown Point. ana. On April 8 he visited old slipped unnoticed through the holdup, he was locked in the jail All were Democrats, but it was moved to Mooresville in Morgan gray walls and started Into the John Dillinger at Mooresville: at Lima, O. He was still there better to let little Democrats Evelyn came back to Chicago. county. There John Dillinger's second pertod of his career. crime career began. on Oct. 13 when three men (Tribune photo.) bear the burden. The two gangsters drove a In the summer of 1924 he and • • • walked into the office of Sherif The Chicago north .ide movie hou.. near which Dillinqerwas ahot. Assistant Attorney General roundabout route to Sault Ste. Jess Sarber. They said they Edward J. Barce went to Crown Marie, Mich. Next they crossed an accomplice, Ed Singleton, Not long was he satisfied on were deputy wardens come from Mrs. Lillian Holley, whom the linger walked out of that escape- Point. He said he was going to into the heavily wooded lake held up a merchant, Frank Mor- the parental acres. He set out gan. After beating him severely Michigan City to take Dillinger Democrats of Lake county had proof jail the morning of March make a thorough Investigation. country of Wisconsin and about to prove his viciousness. With back. The sherif asked for their made sherif. 3. It happened this way: He insisted there was "indisput- they seized $555. Both were two old pals of prison days, Hil- April 20 gathered with others identified and arrested. In Sep- credentials. The trip to Chicago was un- A wrinkled old fellow named able evidence t hat Dillinger of the gang in Emil Wanatka's ton Crouch and Harvey Cope- " Here they are," sald one eventful. But the reception ac- Sam Cahoon, the only guard pay· walked out with the assistance tember, w hen Dillinger was land, he started robbing banks. Little Bohemia resort near Mer- man. corded the champion gangster ing any attention to Dillinger, of prison attaches." cer. tried, he offered one excuse for Inside a month he had hit three, his deed - that he was drunk. The three drew pistols. Shots at the airport here was colossal. unlocked his cell so he could get Later it was reported that Dil- Some of the old bunch were Judge Joseph W. Williams sen- were fired. The sherif fell dead. By actual count eighty-two Chi- into an exercise corridor. Swift- linger had paid at least $10,000 missing. Pierpont, Makley, and tenced him to ten to twenty-one The killers were Pierpont, Mak· cago policemen were present to ly Dillinger slapped something for his freedom and that ar- Clark were in jail in Ohio. Later years in prison. Singleton ob- ley, and Clark. They freed DU- quell any uprising. So were that looked like a pistol into Ca- rangements for the break were they were convicted of the Sar- tained a separate trial and a Unger and five minutes later all twenty-nine policemen and depu- hoon's ribs. Cahoon always in- made in a saloon In East Chi- ber murder. Clark got a life change of venue, pleaded guilty, were speeding back to the haven- ties from Indiana. sisted it was a pistol. cago. Barce took cognizance of sentence and the others were and got off with a much lighter land of Indiana. With an escort worthy of a The guard was forced to open all these rumors. Once he an- condemned to death. Pierpont punishment. That killing made Dillinger visiting prince and a motorcade doors. He was ordered to call nounced that he was about to was electrocuted and Makley This, it has been held, emblt- the No.1 . He and several blocks long, Dillinger Ernest Blunk, a deputy, who seize the three ringleaders. He shot in an attempt to escape-- tered Dillinger against society. his gang had inaugurated the was hauled to the Crown Point was downstairs. Cahoon re- never did. this was not McNutt's Indiana. Certainly he was an unruly in- greatest reign of criminal terror jail. Just before he went to bed belled. II You'll have to shoot A local intra-Democratic party After their conviction Pier- mate at the Pendleton reforma- in American history. With his John Dillinger posed· for a pic- me, John," he quavered. Dillin- scrap developed in Lake county. pont and Makley made a state- tory, where he was first sent. men he raided the police stations ture. With him stood Prosecutor ger laughed and made the call Estill engaged a police sergeant, ment. at Auburn, and Peru, Ind. It has been brought out that he Robert G. Estill, who had ob- himself. Blunk, an appointee of Martin Zarkovich of East Chi- "Indiana authorities know who engaged in "gambling, fighting, In Indiana there arose a clam- talned an indictment charging JUdge Murray, responded. cago, to help him investigate, committed the Lima murder," and destroying property" there. or for the calling out of the him with mur- Blunk saw the pistol and was and announced t hat all this they declared. ••They made a del', and Mrs. The records of the former gov- militia. Dillinger contemptuous- discreet. He obeyed a command WOUldn'thave happened if Judge political issue of our case. They Sherif Holley. ernor, Harry G. Leslie, show ly took his cutthroats into the to call Warden Lew Baker up- Murray had sent Dillinger to know who were robbing banks The prosecutor that he twice tried' to escape and Central National bank of Green- stairs. Baker went and was Michigan City. while we were in Michigan City. was in the mid- that a year was added to his sen- castle on Oct. 23 and fled With shoved into a cell with Cahoon. " Why should I listen to a pros- They know who got the money dle, the 1ad y tence for these attempts. $75,000. A little later the crew Dillinger and Herbert Young. ecutor who had just finished hug- for smuggling guns into the pris- was on his Once Dillinger applied to Gov- dodged into Chicago. Success blood, a Negro prisoner, walked ging Dillinger?" demanded the on. They know, too, why Dllltn- made them greedy. On Nov. 20, right, and the down to the jail office, taking ernor Leslie for parole. He did (A •• ochtted Pre •• photo.) judge. gel' got loose just before he was cal m Dillinger not get it. Leslie recognized his Dillingerpo.e. with the woodenpi•. reinforced by two new members, Blunk with them. He called for a special grand to make a deposition in our unfitness for a return to normal tol (in hi. left hand) he laid Wall Copeland and Leslie Homer, was on his left. Deputies there seemed sur- jury investigation. He appoint- case." they raided the American Bank Such a churn- prlsed at the invasion. They life. He ordered the young crtm- 'lIed in the Crown Point e.cape. ed a special prosecutor, Martin Even without this trio Dlllln- and Trust company of Racine, my pic t u r e! Sergt.Zarko'f'ich were disarmed and Dillinger and lnal, as an intractable, trans- J. Smith. The jury held that gel' had company-three or four Wis., and got $27,000. The Dillinger his companion took such weap- ferred early in 1929to the Michi- at Daleville, Montpelier, and In- Dillinger should have been sent, gangsters and their women. dianapolis. Indiana was paying For weeks after that the gang right arm rested on the Estill ons, Including machine guns, as as a parole violator, back to the gan City penitentiary. Federal agents, tipped by Wa- the price for his release. The used Chicago and its suburban shoulder, and Estill's left hand they wanted. state prison. Ruling the Ian- There Dillinger met the hard- natka, surrounded the resort loot was $36,000, for the time area as headquarters. They nar- was thrown around the killer's Soon afterward they went out- guage scandalous and contemp- ened lawbreakers who were to with a hundred men on April 23. rowly escaped capture several neck. side. Dillinger picked out Sherif tuous, JUdge Murray cited the become his accomplices in an being a satisfactory working Something went wrong. Again fund. times. Dillinger himself, it ap- Holley's automobile and drove jurymen for contempt. They amazing series of tel' r i b 1e • • • the gang shot through to tree- pears, spent some of this period away, accompanied by Young- apologized and the report was crimes. He associated closely He remembered the bad men dom, leaving two enemies dead in East Chicago, Ind., where he The outward appearance of blood and B 1u n k. He had expunged. with them. He planned his and in the Michigan City cells. On and four wounded. Hamilton Sept. 10 he tossed three pistols had friends. great precaution taken to pre- thoughtfully locked the jail from It was noticed that Zarkovich their futures. His record includ- was hurt, and a little later Dil- over the walls. The wrong men On Jan. 15, 1934,he went with vent a Dillinger break was main- the outside, and Crown Pointers ed several demerits - for gam- linger killed him and buried the got them and turned them in. A Hamilton and Pierpont into the tained. Sherif Holley had thirty- were. treated to the odd specta- bling, for cooking in his cell, for body near Oswego, Ill. . Visiting other convicts' cells, for few days later Dillinger ror- First National bank of East Chi- five men to guard him. At times cle of deputy sherifs at the win- Back in Chicago, the champion having a razor in his possession. warded seven more pistols to his cago. While the others handled this force was augmented; a full dows begging somebody to libel" gangster enlisted Piquett's aid A new appeal for parole was pals. They went Ina shipment the bank force and gathered up fifty accompanied the outlaw ate them from their escapeproof and had two unethical surgeons made in the spring of 1933. Me- of merchandise consigned to the $15,000,he stood at the door with when he went to court to plead jail. lift his face. They nearly killed Nutt, elected governor in 1932, prison shirt factory. This time a machine' gun. to the Indictment. His trial was At Peotone, Ill., the two crim- him with too much ether. His was building up the political mao there was no sllp-up. The pack. II Don't m iss any of that set for March 12. inals pushed Blunk out. They finger Ups were altered. . chine that still weighs upon the age was not examined by guards. dough," he commanded Hamil- Prosecutor Estill once request- drove into Chicago. Thousands people of Indiana. He was gath- It was opened by Walter Detrick, ton. "There's a policeman out- ed that Dillinger be transferred of police were seeking them. Detectives believe that Dlllin- ering dictatorial powers for htrn- a Dillinger conspirator. He dis- side, but I'll take care of him." to Michigan City for safe keep- But they had a handicap. The .ger engaged In two major crimes self and legalizing the notorious tributed the guns, and on the When the time was ripe DIl· Ing. JUdge William J. Murray license number of the sherif's after the Little Bohemia episode. Two Per Cent club, which forces 26th the ten ferocious convicts linger went forward, pushing a of the Circuit court refused this. car was broadcast as 679·929; One was the $29,000 robbery of state employes to contribute to shot their Way to freedom. bank official ahead of him as a He estimated that a hundred the right number was 674-549. a bank in South Bend, Ind.; the the Democratic p a rt y slush Among them were tour who shield. The policeman, WilUam men couldn't release the outlaw Warden Baker, who gave the In- other the murder of two police- funds. were more vicious than the rest. P. O'Malley, would not fire, tear- from such a jail. formation, said that was the men in East Chicago. But McNutt was not too busy Their names were Harry Pier- Ing he would kill the banker. By mid-February the whole number given him. These policemen were shot to sign a parole for Dillinger. .point, , Charles Dillinger's gun spat. O'Malley business settled down to routine, It was, however, established down May 24 with a machine The executive order was issued Makley, and . All fell dead. although there were persistent that some one called Piquett in gun as they approached an auto- on May 23. In many respects were to go to the bitter end with Hamilton was wounded in this rumors Dillinger would escape. Chicago five minutes after the mobile at the edge of town. this was a remarkable document. Dillinger. Only one, Clark, is affray. Nevertheless the three He was allowed visitors, whose break and told him his client was The1r names were Lloyd Mulvi- It related that" John Dillinger still alive, serving a Ufe term in bandits escaped. Ten persons permits to see him were signed on the loose. That afternon the hill and Martin O'Brien. Why was convicted in the Circuit prison. The other three died at least had seen them and were by Judge Murray. Among the lawyer met Dillinger. So did were they killed? Nob 0 d y court of Allen county, Indiana, violently. able later to Identify Dillinger. callers were Louis Piquett, shady Evelyn Frechette. knows officially, but the under- on Dec. 26, 1930, charged with This evasion shocked the Unit- Leavmg Hamilton in a hideout, Chicago lawyer who was to From the sherif's office, from (Tribune pboto.) world of East Chicago heard conspiracy to commit a felony ed States, even though the back- the boss killer fled to Arizona. defend the gunman; Arthur the guards, cam e a strange The body of John Dillinger is car- rumor that they had Interrupt II and and battery with In- ground of the Dillinger parole With him went his Lima dellv- O'Leary, investigator for Pi- story. They said Dillinger didn't ried away in a police patrol. (Continued on page nine.)

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