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Floyd and-made 6- an sf lieutenants to prison for the anew phrasetnthe ATa$1-gi-2&#39;51lkidnaping of John the Bar- l , mguage, died Monday in his Mr! Facmr. home at Florence, S. C. He He engineered the raid on a Chicago North Side barber- .,,v . was 56 years old. a 0 Q . Mention of Purvis recalls a shop which resulted in the colorful but unmourned era capture of Vern Sankey, then A A Q Q in America. It was the era o! "public enemy No. 1," who| l later committed suicide rather v a swaggering hoodlums who in than face trial for the abduc- I Ithe 1930s cowed local law en- tion of Charles Boettcher II, -J a &#39;- lforcernent officials with ma- Denver. : chine-gun bullets and bombs. Three agents under Purvls -P Gangland wars raged un- lies! weir lives bringing the- It . /,.K. -i&#39;- -checked, particularly in the gun-happy hoodlurns to juatice . 1 -5&#39; Chicago area, until a small Samuel P. Cowley and Herman- [band of federg| iggnts, with | E .&#39;Hollis, federal agents . were 1 £.1_- -. .,,i_,,. Purvis in e fore, se about 5 &#39;lled in &#39; a&#39; gun battle m / " 1 - f&#39;.&#39;_ tracking the gangsters down. ; &#39;_ M _ 2 I . 4- _ That story reached its cli- on-is-led mote against Le r1 .a==-.1" . max on the electric night of . BabyFace Nelson! Gilhrnl 1- 92 /1 r M July 22, 1934, -when Purvis suburban Chicago on Novem- The Kansas City Tiles sprang the trap on John Dil- b¢f 27- 1934. Gillis, or Nelson ilinger outside the tiny Bio- as he was better known, also Date: -1»;-2 A195?-&#39; ! gaph theater in East Chicago,,was killed. i : J. Ind. The roar of gunfire that Another agent, W. C. Baum, &#39;1" &#39; dropped Dillinger to the steam- was shot to death when Purvis Kansas City, lisllouri ing pavement-rocketed Purvis and other federal agents and the more than 20 federal sought unsuccessfully to take Editor: Roy A.,Roberts Wagents who were working un-Elblllbers of the Dillinger gangl Publisher i der his direction into national "into custody in a tavern known: __. I _. prominence and made the fed-as Little Bohemia lodge near eral police agency feared by Rhinehoder. Wis, on April as, Kansas City Division ai- . underworld gures every- 1934, ._ l ., in _.a _ - IIIIGII. &#39; . Witness Against Ilehettl."._ Title: &#39; Three rnonte later, almost E-"urv"ii known in fto the hour, Purvis led the Kansas City when he played "Y I. charge of officers that brought floyd to a bloody death, gun M1!-fl the conviction of Adam &#39;hand, beside a corncribionRichetti, gangster here, in con- . "_fann near East Liverpool.nectlon with theUnIon&#39; Station KC File C E _ &#39; . 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I recognized him as . &#39;1,". ture Richetti near Wellsville, was, Sorry, ColoneL I ha i Charles Arthur Pretty Boy! no comment to make.",_ti-1" 0., October 21, 1934. Floyd Floyd. I and otherscommanded It may have been"; &#39;4 had escaped then, only to be Purvia had a deeper and &#39; {"1 1 ltraeked dovmneat day byhim to halt. He continued to a n|&#39;| tupsetting irritation,at least |Purvis and other federal run a rig-zag course. He was shoL" fagents. shorta distanceaway publicly that e ad pro Fat the farm home near East ihim. with whsaid Rlcbettt toGas Chamber._Mrs. Anna Sage,the wo .-, §Liverp-ool. Hichetti was convicted of in red" who put the finger on -92 I - - A. ___.4:_:__a:__ 1- AL- 111.!- hillinu-v ll--e tun I--&#39;l..-.:-La ,-1 1 Miller. whom Purvis oe- parucipauug I-I-I we uuiun nramalllstal I-I-ll IRIS Ill! l.l]l.I92| scribed later as suffering from Station massacre and was exc- some help from the govern- , .
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