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Basgd Blg Gngstm j f -tee;-I.-f-TIHt: Gaza}; I B 3' Y Ra Mo TE an - ,,,_'___;In Roger Touhy Case. I , _______ Jlamb" It PM Err: 8|-IHJ Purvis was painstaking in if ELVIN H.-PURVIS, I his pursuit of the lawless. He ._£, M soft-spoken Southernwas credited with rounding up § F Yr 1 lawyer who tracked most of the hoodlttms who fol- :. ' - ,44AJ-£!/-rr I 1 ,4. down such gangsters as John lowed the late Roger the Ter- - e.'» rible! Touhy and with sending 1 . Dillinger and Charles Pretty Touhy himself and his three Boy! Floyd and-made 6- an sf lieutenants to prison for the anew phrasetnthe ATa$1-gi-2'51lkidnaping 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 '- 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'- -checked, particularly in the gun-happy hoodlurns to juatice . 1 -5' Chicago area, until a small Samuel P. Cowley and Herman- [band of federg| iggnts, with | E .'Hollis, federal agents . were 1 £.1_- -. .,,i_,,. Purvis in e fore, se about 5 'lled in ' a' gun battle m / " 1 - f'.'_ tracking the gangsters down. ; '_ 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?-' ! gaph theater in East Chicago,,was killed. i : J. Ind. The roar of gunfire that Another agent, W. C. Baum, '1" ' 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. ' . Witness Against Ilehettl."._ Title: ' 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 'hand, beside a corncribionRichetti, gangster here, in con- . "_fann near East Liverpool.nectlon with theUnIon' Station KC File C E _ ' . The showdown came on the .' 92 in H»-=-=1-.»"W~o&w11 . '_ n October 23,, J!-heffederal nts -had .J I . RECQPI '="JE'P=' JAl92F24 l=-£2 Y. ammon- O l_ - r -_ ° Egg! 1 4 '1 Pef erred Ohaeurl pearancePurvi's':inade on the witnesshis stand up-I-Wiscemimy duringno Puwas was this laconic, almost classic licity seeker himself while description of the ahooting of was an agent. I-Ieiwoul Floyd: ' - preferred it if he " a.. I observed underneath the remained completely out the stories of the day but . corn crib, elevated about one .92 ,_. activities made that diff s". and one-half feet on stilts, the '+~._- He was described by ne -v '.' is'BlT§ll't-I6another gang- free .r= ster, Frank Nash. feet of a man leaving the car. as a clam personmed Q I observed this man started Purvis had helped to cap- his favorite reply to questions to run. I recognized him as . '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"; '4 had escaped then, only to be Purvia had a deeper and ' {"1 1 ltraeked dovmneat day byhim to halt. He continued to a n|'| tupsetting irritation,at least |Purvis and other federal run a rig-zag course. 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