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Banks were having miserable public relations problems during the Depression. Many of them failed, sweeping away the life savings of millions of hard working people.  Those that stayed in business foreclosed on people's homes, farms and businesses as the economy went from bad to worse.

So bank robbers were not particularly viewed as terrible criminals by the average American.  There was even a touch of Robin Hood when bank robbers destroyed all of the mortgage records at the banks they hit.  The daring daytime robberies and skillful getaways were glamorous and exciting, especially if the robbers were handsome, polite and photogenic.

And so, John Dillinger and Harry Pierpont, Baby Face Nelson and the rest of the Dillinger Gang were celebrities whose exploits were followed closely by a Depression-weary American public that followed their every adventure like a running television series.

Not everyone was entertained by America 's new folk hero outlaws who sprang up during what would come to be known as the Mid-West Crime Wave.  In Washington , D.C. , J. Edgar Hoover and his fledgling Bureau of Investigation were outraged that American citizens had come to idolize the new breed of outlaw -- Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde and others -- and became vicariously absorbed in their lawlessness.

Harry Pierpont's self-serving rationale -- "I stole from the bankers who stole from the people" -- did not go over at Mr. Hoover's straight-laced FBI.  Hoover saw Dillinger and his gang as a threat to the national morals.  Quickly enacted new anticrime laws made bank robbery, the transport of stolen goods or flight of a felon over state laws to avoid prosecution a federal crime which came under the enforcement jurisdiction of the FBI.

Hoover 's big chance came in early March of 1934 when Dillinger broke out of an "escape-proof" jail in Indiana , stole the sheriff's car and drove across the Illinois state line, putting himself  in the jurisdictional sights of the FBI.   Hoover mounted a special operation to capture Dillinger.

Young Melvin Purvis, the son of a well-connected wealthy southern aristocrat, was in charge of the Chicago office of the FBI.  Dillinger became his project.  What "Little Mel" lacked in height and weight, he made up for in ambition and intelligence.  But Purvis was up against a wily group with the Dillinger Gang.   These men were real professionals.

For more than a month, Dillinger escaped the traps that were set for him.  In April of 1934,  the gang needed a place to hide out.  One of them suggested  a summer resort in northern Wisconsin called Little Bohemia.  The lovely lodge had been built a few years earlier by Emil Wanatka, an emigrant of Bohemia , who had become friendly with bootleggers and gangsters during Prohibition.

On April 20, Dillinger and his gang, along with wives and girlfriends showed up at the lodge.  It was off season and rooms were available.  After dinner, Wanatka sat down with his guests to play cards.  It was then that he noticed the guns and the shoulder holsters.  He and his wife Nan figured out who the guest really were and they were terrified.

Finally, Wanatka confronted Dillinger, who did what he could to put his host at ease.

"Don't worry," Dillinger told him.  "I want to sleep and eat a few days.  I want to rest up.  I'll pay you well and then we'll all get out."

Every time the phone rang, one of the gangsters eavesdropped.  Every time a car came, Wanatka had to explain who it was.  Every time someone from the lodge went into town, a gangster went with them. He was afraid for Nan and his ten-year-old son.  "Baby Face" Nelson was a really dangerous psychopath and made Wanatka particularly afraid for his family and staff.

Wanatka had enough.  He wrote a letter to a man he knew in the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago .  Nan slipped the letter into her corset and got permission from Dillinger to go to her nephew's birthday party.  Dillinger, surprisingly, didn't insist that a gang member go with her.

Intensely relieved, Nan and her son got into the car and drove away.  Then she noticed that a car was following her.  When she slowed down, she almost panicked -- the most frightening man in the gang, Baby Face Nelson, was following her.

John Toland in his book The Dillinger Days tells the story of her daring plan.  Nan drove slowly up to the S curve in the road before her brother's house.  As soon as she was out of Nelson's sight, she raced into her brother's driveway and picked him up and got back on the highway before Nelson knew what she had done.  She gave the letter to her brother and pulled the same trick at the next S curve where she dropped off her brother, just outside the town of Mercer .

She went to a grocery store in Mercer and bought some candy.  Nelson pointed his finger at her as a warning.  Nan saw her brother, who had mailed the letter, picked him up and the three of them drove to her older brother's birthday party in Manitowish Waters , Wisconsin .  There she confided in her family about the Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia.

They came up with a plan.  Realizing that the sheriff's office was not up to handling the Dillinger crowd, they would contact the Chicago office of the FBI.  This was the chance Melvin Purvis was waiting for.  Unlike other FBI agents, he liked publicity.

Toland describes the hard-working young bachelor:  "He was a small man with bright, alert eyes who dressed fashionably and was so fastidious he often changed shirts three times a day.  A law graduate of the University of South Carolina , he spoke with a polite, pleasant drawl. One might have thought he was a successful young bond salesman perhaps -- but certainly not a G-Man.  He was a competent executive, a man of unquestioned courage despite his excitability, and was well liked by those who worked under him."

As soon as he got the news about Little Bohemia, he called Hoover who promised to fly in reinforcements from the St. Paul office.

Along with them came Assistant FBI   Director Hugh Clegg.  Clegg, an FBI superstar, would be first in command, Purvis, second.  The agents from Chicago would meet them at the airport in Rhinelander, Wisconsin , which was the nearest airport to Little Bohemia.

Just as the federal forces were gathering for the attack, Dillinger and company were getting ready to move on.  Dillinger asked for an early dinner so that they could all get on the road.  It was a Sunday afternoon and the bar was filled with patrons.  Upstairs, Dillinger was studying a road map.

Around 4 P.M., Nan 's sister, Mrs. Voss, drove up to tell her sister that her husband Henry had gotten in touch with the FBI.  Nan whispered that the gangsters were leaving early that evening.  Mrs. Voss left soon after to relay the information to her husband who was going to meet the FBI forces at Rhinelander airport.

The FBI got an unexpected break due to Dillinger's cautiousness.  Earlier in the day Dillinger sent Pat Reilly, described as a gang-hanger-on, to St. Paul to purchase more ammunition.  He took one of the gang's girls with him.  While he was gone, Dillinger moved the other two cars out of sight into a garage.  Dillinger and the rest of the gang were waiting for the two to return so they could leave.  However, when Reilly pulled into the driveway and didn't see the other cars, he got spooked.  Thinking the gang had left or, worse, had been captured and the authorities were lying in wait, Reilly backed out and decided not to return until after dark.

It was past 6 P.M. when the FBI agents landed at Rhinelander.  They had planned to conduct the raid at 4 A.M. the next morning, but now everything changed and the attack had to proceed immediately.

The agents commandeered five cars.  Along the way, two of the vehicles became disabled on the severe winter pocked roads.  Eight agents were forced to ride on the running boards of the three remaining automobiles, wind whipped by the icy northern Wisconsin coldness.  Clegg and Purvis formulated a plan, "Three agents wearing bullet-proof vests would storm the main door of the lodge.   A group of five would flank the lodge on the left in a line all the way to the lake and intercept anyone who tired to break through.  A similar group would do the same on the right.  Thus the gang would be trapped on three sides.  The fourth side, the lake, was impassable.

"The plan was good but it did not take into consideration three key terrain factors, all missing from Voss's map: a ditch on the left of the lodge, a barbed-wire fence on the right, and the steep bank near the lake which could mask an escape along the shore.  Nor did it occur to Voss to warn Purvis about Wanatka's two watchdogs." (Toland) 

As the agents quietly approached the brightly lit lodge, they got a real surprise.   The two watchdogs barked furiously.  The agents ran to their positions, believing that the element of surprise was gone.  But as it turned out, the dogs had barked so frequently that the gang members were used to the noise.

Three of the bar's customers chose that particular moment to pay up and go home.   At the same time, two bartenders went out on the porch to see what was bothering the dogs.  The three customers walked to their car in the parking lot. 

Inside the car were John Hoffman, a gas station attendant and two CCC workers from a nearby camp -- John Morris and Eugene Boiseneau.  As Hoffman started the automobile, the radio, which had been left in the on position, blared loudly.  Clegg and Purvis, believing the three men to be members of the gang attempting to flee, ordered the agents to shoot out the tires.  Numb and nervous, the agents blasted away at the automobile, hitting all three occupants with their fire.  Hoffman ran bleeding from the car into the woods.  Morris staggered back into the lodge.  Boiseneau was going nowhere -- he was killed instantly. 

If the dogs didn't alarm the Dillinger gang, the gunfire surely did. Return fire from the lodge was instantaneous, but lasted for only a few seconds. The gang had laid out a careful escape plan the day they arrived. Dillinger and gang members Homer Van Meter, John "Red" Hamilton and Tommy Carroll followed the plan to perfection, running down to the back of the lakeshore and turning right. "Baby Face" Nelson turned left. The agents, trying to execute their plan, fell into the drainage ditch on one side or became entangled in the barbed wire on the other side.

Meanwhile, the injured John Morris crawled across the lodge floor to the telephone and picked up the receiver. Alvin Koerner, the local exchange operator came on the other end. Morris said, " Alvin , we're at Emil's! Everybody has been knocked out!"

Nelson would soon arrive at Koerner's. Ironically, so would Wanatka, along with the two bartenders, after escaping from his own lodge. Nelson, Wanatka and Koerner left and got into an automobile just as a vehicle containing FBI Agents W. Carter Baum and J. C. Newman, and local constable Carl Christensen arrived. Nelson stepped out of the car and moved toward the one with the lawmen.

"I'm looking for Mr. Koerner," Newman stated unaware of the carnage that was about to be unleashed.

Nelson aimed his automatic at the men and ordered them out of the car. "I know you bastards are wearing bulletproof vests so I'll give it to you high and low."

With that he shot Newman in the forehead. Miraculously, the agent lived. Baum wasn't as fortunate. He was killed instantly and Christensen was wounded eight times, but would survive.

Hoover had promised the newspapers something special.  It was special all right.   It was one of the worst public relations fiascoes in FBI history.  The FBI had killed an innocent man and wounded two others, while one agent was killed, one wounded and a third lawman seriously injured. Will Rogers summed it up:  "Well, they had Dillinger surrounded and was all ready to shoot him when he came out, but another bunch of folks came out ahead, so they just shot them instead.  Dillinger is going to accidentally get with some innocent bystanders some time, then he will get shot."

Little Johnnie Dillinger was a bad boy.  The older he got, the worse his delinquency became.  Johnnie was born in a quiet middle class Indianapolis neighborhood on June 22, 1903.  His father, John Wilson Dillinger, was a somber, church-going grocer who did his very best to inculcate into his son his own strict moral standards.  While his father was a stern disciplinarian, it did not stop him from indulging the lad with material goods, bicycles and toys.

Johnnie's mother died of a stroke when he was only three years old.  His sixteen-year-old sister Audrey took over as the woman of the house.  This arrangement did not last long as in a little more than a year, Audrey married and began a home of her own.  When Johnnie was nine, his father married a young woman named Elizabeth Fields.  While, the boy was initially jealous of the warmth and affection that his father gave to his new bride, eventually Johnnie came to admire and adore his stepmother.

Not long after, Johnnie became the leader of a kid gang called the Dirty Dozen.   Eventually the gang started stealing coal from the Pennsylvania Railroad cars that came through the neighborhood.  Inevitably, they were caught and taken to Juvenile Court.  Dillinger was the only one of the kids that wasn't intimidated by the courtroom and judge.  Almost as a precursor of things to come, "Dillinger stood arms folded, slouch cap over one eye, staring steadily at the judge -- and chewing gum.  When the judge ordered him to take off the cap and remove the gum, Dillinger smiled crookedly and slowly stuck the gum on the peak of his cap." (Toland)

Dillinger and his closest friend, Fred Brewer, who was the product of a broken marriage, were together constantly.  The two boys often played in a wood veneer mill and learned how to run the saw when nobody was around.  One day they tied another boy on the carrier and turned on the large circular saw.  It was only when the boy was a yard away from death, that Dillinger turned it off.

His father was becoming increasingly concerned about Johnnie and he had every right to be.  Beatings and other punishments just made Johnnie more defiant.  One afternoon, when he was thirteen, he and his buddies grabbed a girl and took her into an old shack where they each took a turn with her.

Against his father's wishes, he quit school at the age of sixteen and went to work at the veneer mill.  He demonstrated great mechanical aptitude, but the job was boring and he quit.  Then he got a job as a mechanic.  All was well for a little while and his father breathed easier.  But Johnnie's good behavior didn't last.  Soon he was staying out until the early morning hours, totally focused on the opposite sex.

Dillinger's father made a major decision: he was ready to retire and indulge in his dream of owning a farm, so he sold his grocery store and several houses he owned.  Then they all moved to the wholesome rural atmosphere of a farm in Mooresville, his second wife's place of birth.

Again, Johnnie behaved well initially and enrolled in the local high school, but he had no interest and failed every subject except "applied biology."  Teachers at the school requested that Dillinger's father come meet with them to discuss his son's problems, but he refused stating that he was too busy. Shortly before Christmas vacation Dillinger quit school for good.

His behavior made living in the house with his father intolerable, so he moved to Martinsville where he could spend all of his spare time hanging around the pool hall and seducing one girl after another.  One girl alone commanded his respect -- his uncle's stepdaughter Frances Thornton.  He was ready to renounce his wild life and marry her, but the uncle forced the relationship to break up.  It had a lasting effect on him.

Although Johnnie did lousy in school, he enjoyed reading about the Wild West and would bore his friends with stories about his favorite hero, Jesse James. Jesse had Robin Hood qualities and impressed young Johnnie not only with his daring, but his kindness to women and children.

 Johnnie was seeking something, whether it was love, which he obviously was not getting at home, or just sex wasn't quite clear. He loved women and always seemed to be pursuing a relationship. He began spending time in Martinsville , Indiana , and after being rejected by most of the young women there, he headed back to Indianapolis where he began spending time with local prostitutes. This eventually got him a case of gonorrhea.

 Johnnie's relationship with his father continued to deteriorate as the elder Dillinger became increasingly incensed with his son's lifestyle. This reached a head on July 21, 1923 when Johnnie had a date with a young lady from Indianapolis , who was rumored to be pregnant with his child. When his father refused to allow him to use the car, Johnnie walked to a local church and stole one. He was later found by a police officer roaming aimlessly through the streets of Indianapolis . The policeman questioned Johnnie and becoming suspicious of his explanations, pulled him over to a call box. Johnnie broke loose and ran. Knowing he couldn't go back home, the next day he joined the United States Navy.

Although he made it through basic training, the regimented life of the Navy was not the lifestyle Johnnie had been seeking. Assigned to the ill-fated battleship, the Utah , Johnnie hopped ship while docked in Boston and headed home to Mooresville. His military career had lasted less than five months.  

The year 1924 would be a banner year in Johnnie's life. During that year he became a husband, chicken thief, local baseball star, robber, and inmate. After deserting the Utah in December, he returned home and met 16 year-old Beryl Hovias. On April 24, Dillinger and Hovias marched arm-in-arm into his father's farmhouse and announced they had just been married.

 Family life had little effect on settling Johnnie down and in a few weeks he was arrested for stealing 41 chickens. His father was able to work out a deal to keep the case out of court, but this did little help their relationship. Their arguments continued and Johnnie and Beryl moved out his cramped bedroom. The newlyweds now moved in with her parents in Martinsville and Johnnie got a job as an upholsterer.

 During that summer, Johnnie played shortstop on the Martinsville baseball team where he became friends with Ed Singleton, one of the umpires. A distant relative of Johnnie's stepmother, Singleton was described as a weak, tortured man with webbed fingers who drank heavily. Years later, it would be this drinking problem that would cause him to pass out on the railroad tracks and be decapitated by a passing freight train. In the meantime, Singleton became Johnnie's first partner in crime.

On a Saturday night in early September, Dillinger, armed with a .32 caliber pistol and a bolt wrapped in a handkerchief, assaulted a local grocer who was on his way to the barbershop. Johnnie had been told by Singleton, that the grocer would be carrying his daily receipts with him. This was not the case. Dillinger whacked the grocer over the head with the bolt, but the grocer fought back grabbing at the gun and forcing it to discharge. Johnnie, thinking that he has shot the grocer, took off running down the street to where Singleton was supposed to be waiting with the getaway car. No one was there.

Convinced by the local prosecutor that if he pleaded guilty the court would be lenient on him, Dillinger's father persuaded his son to confess. Johnnie appeared in court without a lawyer. His father, who had once been too busy to meet with his son's schoolteachers, was now too busy to attend the trial. The judge threw the book at young Dillinger sentencing him to 10 to 20 years at the Pendleton Reformatory. Upon entering the prison, the 21-year-old, but cocky confident, Dillinger was brought before the superintendent and calmly told him, "I won't cause you any trouble except to escape."

To say that John Dillinger was not an ideal prisoner would be an understatement. He made his first escape attempt less than one month after he entered the reformatory. He was given an additional 6 months. Less than a week later he was taken to Franklin , Indiana for Singleton's trial. Singleton, who had an attorney, was sentenced to 2 to 14 years for his role in the robbery attempt. During the return trip to Pendleton, Dillinger broke away from his guard but was soon recaptured.  

Less than five weeks later, he failed in his third attempt to escape and again was given an additional 6 months. Between 1925 and 1931 Dillinger was cited for numerous reformatory infractions including gambling, fist fighting, having a razor in his cell, destroying prison property, smuggling food into his cell, and defying prison regulations. All of these infractions brought either a stint in solitary confinement or time added to his growing sentence.

Inside he became good friends with a man that would strongly influence the rest of his life -- Harry Pierpont.   Harry, like Dillinger, was a handsome, soft-spoken young man who was gifted in his relationships with the opposite sex.  Pierpont was over six-feet tall with blue eyes and sandy brown hair.

A year older than Dillinger, Pierpont had been in Pendleton once before for stealing a car and wounding its owner.  He had been returned there after robbing a bank in Kokomo .  After trying to escape, Pierpont was transferred to the penitentiary at Michigan City .

Dillinger's excellent deportment earned him a comfortable job in the prison shirt factory where he made friends with a tall, slender prankster named Homer Van Meter.   Homer was always clowning around and was consistently and severely punished for it by the guards.  Homer was in for liberating several hundred dollars from some passengers on a train -- that after car theft and other minor charges.  Van Meter, because of his obsessive clowning, was considered a dangerous degenerate and was also transferred to Michigan City .

Still married and very lonely, Dillinger wrote extravagantly affectionate letters to his wife Beryl:  "....Dearest we will be so happy when I can come home to you and chase your sorrows away and it won't take any kids to keep me home with you always for Sweetheart I love you so all I want to do is just be with you and make you happy...."

For someone as young as Beryl, the wait was intolerably long.  In 1929, Hovias sought a divorce; it was granted by the same judge who had sentenced her husband to the harsh prison term. Depressed as he was, he pulled himself together and enrolled himself in the prison school.  For once in his life, he studied hard and was an excellent student.

On the day of Dillinger's first parole hearing in July 1929, Indiana Governor Harry Leslie, a member of the parole board, watched the inmate play shortstop in a baseball game against a local semi-pro club. The governor, an ex-athlete himself, was impressed with Dillinger's ability. However, Dillinger's prison record proved unimpressive and parole was denied. Although stunned, Dillinger requested a transfer to Michigan City prison, the state's toughest penitentiary. Now it was the parole board's turn to be stunned. Dillinger wanted to be back with his friends, Pierpont and Van Meter, who had been transferred there, but told the board he was making the request because they had a better baseball team there. His transfer was granted.

While the Michigan City penitentiary was a depressing place, Dillinger was initiated by Pierpont into the clique of the prison elite -- bankrobbers.  He had graduated from petty crime to a master's program.  This master's program was augmented by the inclusion of Walter Dietrich, who taught Pierpont and his colleagues the methods of Herman "Baron" K. Lamm, a Prussian army officer turned highly successful bankrobber.

The first step in the method was learning the layout of the bank that was targeted, where the safes were and who was responsible for opening them.  The next step was rehearsal where every one was given a specific job and a narrow time frame in which to complete the job.  The robbers must leave the bank within the scheduled time, with or without the loot.  The final step was the acquisition of a very fast car and a well-rehearsed escape route.

Pierpont's tightly knit group was composed of "Fat Charley" Makley, a forty-four-year-old veteran bankrobber from Ohio ; John "Red" Hamilton, a tough, intelligent, thirty-four-year-old bankrobber; Russell Clark, a young man who was in jail for a single bank robbery; Dillinger and, later, Dietrich.

All but Dillinger had lengthy prison terms ahead of them and were desperate to escape.  Makley, the oldest and most experienced, came up with a simple escape plan in which bribery was the centerpiece.  All that was needed was enough money to bribe a few key guards, a few guns and a place to lay low.

"Pierpont approached Dillinger, who had served most of his sentence.  If he helped them escape, he could be the driver in their bank-robbing scheme.  Of course, such an escape would cost a large amount of money and they would have to teach him how to get it. 

They promised to give him a list of the best banks and stores to rob, and the names and addresses of reliable accomplices.  He would be told where to fence stolen goods and money; how to get rid of bonds.  He would, in short, know almost as much about bank robbery as they did." (Toland)

Pierpont and Van Meter were incorrigible, life long bank robbers. Dillinger's association with them and Pierpont's friends Makley, Russell Clark, and John "Red" Hamilton would help define young Dillinger's future. In their spare time, and they had plenty of it, they discussed with Dillinger the art of successful bank robbing. Dillinger might have considered this an oxy-moron as it pertained to this group who were all serving long prison sentences.

By May 1933, Dillinger had been at Michigan City for almost four years. Still hoping for parole, he got an unfortunate break when the Dillinger family notified prison officials that John's stepmother was near death. On May 22, 1933 Dillinger walked out of Michigan City Prison. By the time Dillinger arrived home his stepmother had died. After attending Sunday church services, he assured his father of his intent to become a law-abiding citizen.

A couple of weeks after he was paroled, Dillinger had lined up two of the men on Pierpont's list, William Shaw and Paul Parker, telling them both that his name was Dan Dillinger.  Shaw and his ex-con friend, Noble Claycomb had a group that called themselves the White Cap Gang, which specialized in small, local robberies.

The first place they hit was a supermarket.  All they got was $100.

With such small pickings, Dillinger would never be able to get his buddies out of the pen.  Dillinger set his sites on his first bank.  It was beginner's luck. He, Shaw and Parker knocked over the New Carlisle National Bank in New Carlisle, Ohio, without a hitch.  Incredibly enough in the midst of the Depression, they walked away with over $10,000.

But that was only the beginning, Dillinger and his colleagues hit a drug store and another supermarket, coming away with $3,600.  In these two robberies, it became clear to Dillinger that his two accomplices were incompetents. He started to contact other men on Pierpont's list. Claycomb and Shaw were soon arrested and sent to prison.

With Harry Copeland, a new accomplice, Dillinger drove to the town of Daleville on July 17.   Inside the tiny Commercial Bank, teller Margaret Good spoke to the dignified looking Dillinger, who had asked to speak to the bank's president.  Margaret explained that the president of the bank was not in.

Suddenly, she was looking at the long barrel of a gun.  "Well, honey," he told her, "this is a stickup."

For some unknown reason, Dillinger gracefully leaped over the railing into the vault and helped himself to $3,500.  Then he told everyone to get inside the vault and he walked out.  The leap across the railing was a dramatic flourish that many would remember.  It also attracted the attention of Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Police.  It wasn't long before Leach realized that the new bankrobber was John Dillinger.

When Dillinger had been in prison, one of his friends talked continuously about his attractive sister, Mary Longnaker.  Dillinger drove to Dayton to meet her, suggesting that he could arrange for her brother to escape.  Mary was a good-looking, twenty-three-year-old woman with young children and a husband that she was divorcing.

Dillinger became completely infatuated with her and offered to pay for her divorce.  He pursued her continuously, trying to wrest a commitment from her to be his girl.   "Honey," he wrote, "I miss you like nobody's business and I don't mean maybe.  I hope I can spend more time with you, for baby I fell for you in a big way and if you'll be on the level I'll give everybody the go by for you and that isn't a lot of hooey either.  I know you like me dear but that isn't enough for me when I'm as crazy as I am about you.  You may never get to feel the same toward me as I do you in which case I would be better off not to see you very much for it would be hell for me... Lots of love from Johnnie."

Mary stayed somewhat noncommittal.  She was already seeing a decent man who would make a good husband and stepfather for her children, but she didn't want to do anything that would ruin her chances of her brother escaping from prison. 

Captain Matt Leach was determined to get Dillinger.  He got a tip from Pinkertons that Dillinger had a girlfriend in Dayton , but he didn't know who she was or where she lived, only that she was the sister of a prison inmate.  Leach asked the Dayton police for help.  A few days later in early September, 1933, Leach got the address of the boarding house where Dillinger rented rooms on his trip to Dayton .  Police secretly opened the letters that he sent to Mary in hopes of finding out when he would be visiting her next.  Two detectives moved into the same boarding house, taking the rooms opposite Dillinger's.

Meanwhile, Dillinger and Harry Copeland continued to rob banks in Ohio and Indiana , saving up the money to finance the prison break for his pals in Michigan City .  They got lucky on September 6.  The Real Silk Hosiery payroll was at the State Bank of Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis when Dillinger walked up to the assistant manager and told him it was a stickup.  The manager looked up to see "Dillinger sitting cross-legged up on the seven-foot-high barrier.  A straw hat was tilted cockily on his head and he was almost casually pointing an automatic." (Toland)  Incredibly they got almost $25,000.  Dillinger now had collected enough for the prison break.

With the help of two of Pierpont's women friends, Pearl Elliott and Mary Kinder, he put the operation in motion.  Pearl couriered messages and paid bribes.  Mary was to find an apartment in which the escaped men would hide.  Dillinger bought guns and threw the package containing the guns over the prison wall near the athletic field.   Unfortunately, an inmate found them and gave them to the guards. The warden wrongly suspected other convicts in the plot and they were put in solitary confinement.

Pearl smuggled out a letter from Pierpont telling Dillinger how to get another set of guns into the prison shirt factory hidden in a box of thread.  Dillinger made all the arrangements and the prison break was set for September 27.

On September 22, he finally had time to visit Mary in Dayton .  The police, who had given up waiting for him, told the landlady that if Dillinger showed up, she should call them immediately.

Toland tells the story of Sergeant W.J. Aldredge of the Dayton police who got a call shortly after midnight.

'"He's here," a woman cried out.

'"Who's here?" Aldredge asked patiently.

'"John Dillinger, you dumb flatfoot!'"

In no time, the detectives had barged into Mary's rooms and arrested Dillinger.   Now with his friends days away from their daring attempt to break out of Michigan City , Johnnie Boy was on his way back there.

While Dillinger sat in the Lima , Ohio , jail, a huge box of thread arrived at the prison shirt factory.  Storeroom manager Walter Dietrich, disciple of the legendary bank robber "Baron" Lamm, took the box and removed the four guns and ammunition that Dillinger had put inside.  The break was planned for September 25, but Pierpont and the other planners feared word would leak out, so they moved it up to the very next day, September 26.  Actually, the new warden, Louis Kunkel, had no inkling of the break, although the deputy warden knew something was imminent, but not how imminent.

The afternoon of the 26th, ten men gathered in the shirt factory storage room.  Guns were given out to Makley, Pierpont and Hamilton.  The others had fake guns.  One of these guns was shoved into the back of the superintendent of the shirt company while he led the men out to the yard. 

There in the yard, they took a guard hostage, the huge mountain of a man they called "Big Bertha."  Pierpont told him, "If you try anything, you're dead where you stand.  Get it, you big, brave man?"  "Bertha" got it.

The superintendent, with a pile of shirts in his hands, led the convicts, who also carried shirts, across the yard to the Guard's Hall.  "Big Bertha" brought up the rear.   Nobody was suspicious because this was a fairly common occurrence and the site of "Big Bertha" made it all seem kosher.

Just as they were approaching the main gate, the convicts mugged the turnkey.   Warden Kunkel heard the commotion from the business office.  Someone yelled, "It's a break!"  With Pierpont's gun aimed at his stomach, Kunkel decided just to be a spectator and not a dead hero that day.

It was pouring rain when they ran through the unlocked gate.  Three of the convicts borrowed a car from a sheriff, who had just brought in a prisoner, and drove off towards Chicago .  The other six, Pierpont and Makley et al, hijacked a car at the gas station across the street on sped off towards Indianapolis .

The largest prison break in Indiana history had just been made. This prison break, as well as numerous others, would lead to Michigan City 's nickname the "paper jail." Six days after Dillinger's demise the Chicago Daily Tribune reported five convicts "literally walked out of the penitentiary from the jail hospital."

Eventually the men reached their hideout in Hamilton , Ohio , narrowly escaping a blockade that Matt Leach had set up.  As it was, one of the convicts, Jim Jenkins, Mary Longnaker's brother was killed by a local posse.  Once they had a chance to rest, Pierpont realized that even though the Dayton jail was just a little over a hundred miles away, they wouldn't be able to try to spring him without the proper expense money and guns.

Mary Kinder, Pierpont's mistress, rejoined the gang and agreed to be the "wheel man" for their next bank robbery.  Makley convinced the group that they should rob the bank in his hometown of St. Marys , Ohio .  Even though the bank had been closed by the Treasury Department, it just happened to have a large amount of money on hand for a planned reopening.

Pierpont went up to the cashier with a map.  The cashier looked up, ready to help Pierpont with directions and saw the gun that was concealed under the map.  Pierpont and Makley left with two sacks of cash, while the police chief sat a few blocks away listening to the World Series.  They got away with $11,000, much more than they needed in expenses to raid the Lima jail and far more than they expected from the little bank.

While Dillinger was in jail, he wrote to his father:  "Hope this letter finds you well and not worrying too much about me.  Maybe I'll learn someday, Dad that you can't win in this game.  I know I have been a big disappointment to you but I guess I did too much time for where I went in a carefree boy I came out bitter toward everything in general.  Of course, Dad, most of the blame lies with me for my environment was of the best but if I had gotten off more leniently when I made my first mistake this would never have happened....I am well and treated fine.  From Johnnie."

He was being treated very well by Sheriff Jess Sarber and his wife, who lived at the jail building.

At  Dillinger's request, Pierpont brought a new girlfriend, Evelyn Billie Frechette, to Ohio .  She was a pretty dark-haired woman, part American Indian, who grew up on a reservation.  His intent was to pass off Billie as Dillinger's sister and get her inside the jail so that they had some idea of the layout before they attacked.  Pierpont asked a local lawyer if he would arrange for Dillinger's "sister" to be able to see him.   Instead of a simple "yes" or "no," the lawyer said he'd talk it over with Sheriff Sarber the next day.

Concerned that Sarber might see through the ruse, Pierpont decided to try to free Dillinger right away. The plan developed almost instantly:  Ed Shouse would be the lookout; Harry Copeland would guard the cars; and John Hamilton would stand near a couple hundred feet away from the jail.

Toland tells how at 6:20 P.M., Pierpont, Makley and Clark armed with pistols approached the jail.  Sheriff Sarber and his wife had just finished dinner and were sitting in the office with their deputy.  Pierpont told them, "'We're officers from Michigan City and we want to see Dillinger.'

"'Let me see your credentials,' Sarber responded."

"Pierpont calmly pulled out a gun. 'Here's our credentials.'

"'Oh, you can't do that,' said Sarber, reaching for the gun in the desk drawer.

"Pierpont panicked and impulsively fired twice.  One bullet went into Sarber's left side, through the abdomen and into his thigh.  He fell to the floor.

"'Give us the keys to the cell,' said Pierpont, but Sarber's answer was to try to rise.  Makley stepped forward and hit him over the head with the butt of his gun, accidentally discharging a wild shot.  Sarber collapsed, moaning."

Mrs. Sarber grabbed the keys and gave them to Pierpont.  He opened up the cell, gave Dillinger one of his guns, and they ran out to the car.

Sarber, in great pain, looked at his wife, "Mother, I believe I'm going to have to leave you."   He died an hour and a half later.

They were initially called The Terror Gang because of their boldness and impudence.  Once Dillinger had been freed, they all headed back to Chicago to put together the most organized and professional bank robbing scheme ever devised in the county.  One thing they needed was the very best in guns, ammunition and bullet-proof vests.

What better place to get such equipment than from the police themselves.  A week after Dillinger's escape from the Lima , Ohio , jail,  he and Pierpont decided to hit the enormous police arsenal in Peru , Indiana .  A month earlier, Dillinger and Homer Van Meter posed as tourists there and asked what the local policemen had in the way of fire power if the Dillinger Gang ever showed up in those parts.  The officers proudly showed the two "tourists" the kinds of weapons they would use against the Terror Gang.

Late on the evening of October 20, 1933, Pierpont and Dillinger entered the arsenal, subdued three lawmen and made off with several loads of machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, ammunition and bullet-proof vests.  When this loot was added to the guns and ammunition they had stolen earlier from an Auburn , Indiana , police station, they were ready for business.

Law enforcement officials were outraged at the brazenness of the gang.  Captain Matt Leach, who was afflicted with a serious  stutter,  wanted to try a bold approach of his own.  He knew that both Henry Pierpont and John Dillinger were men with very large egos.  Often the gang had been referred to in the newspapers as the Pierpont Gang.  What if Captain Leach could persuade reporters to start calling it the Dillinger Gang instead.  Maybe a leadership fight would break out amongst the gang members and they would split up.  The newsmen agreed to his proposal.

Toland says that there was never a struggle for leadership, despite the spate of stories that started to appear calling Dillinger the leader: "Pierpont knew [the stories] were false and he was too grateful to Dillinger to be jealous.  Dillinger, however, read and reread every story and even saved the clippings; but instead of becoming boastful, his manner and dress became more conservative.  The gang lived quietly in expensive Chicago apartments, the men drinking only beer and little of that.   According to Pierpont's code, a crime not only had to be committed without the benefit of drink or drugs but prepared in sobriety...the men would sit around the living room discussing future plans much like any group of respectable businessmen.  Usually Pierpont assembled their various ideas.  Sometimes it would be Makley.  But everyone had a chance to voice an opinion, no one overriding a majority."

Jay Robert Nash in Bloodletters and Badmen agrees: "There was no real leader... Pierpont was the most daring and nerveless of the group, but his impulsiveness oft-times outweighed his considerable intelligence.  Hamilton was the old pro.   Whenever any bank job was discussed, he could offer the soundest advice based on experience.  Makley and Clark, for the most part, listened.  Pierpont appreciated and more or less encouraged Dillinger's role as leader...telling him that [the name Dillinger] was both euphonic and memorable since it reminded everyone of the pistol, derringer."

With their finely-honed precision system for bank robbing, they executed the first target in their plan on October 23 when they pulled up to the Greencastle, Indiana, Central National Bank.  Hamilton stayed outside the door to watch, while Pierpont, Makley and Dillinger went inside.  Using "Baron" Lamm's method, they already knew the inside of the structure well since they had cased the bank thoroughly a few days earlier.

Dillinger, the showoff, leaped over a high counter into the teller's cage and started to scoop up money, while Pierpont and Makley made sure that nobody moved.  Hamilton , standing by the door with a stopwatch so that they didn't overstay their five-minute time limit, looked up to see an elderly, foreign-born woman walk out of the bank.  He told her to get back inside.

Completely disregarding the gun had in his hands, she walked calmly by him, saying "I go to Penney's and you go to hell!"

Jay Robert Nash tells the story of the farmer standing at the teller's cage with a stack of bills in front of him.  Dillinger saw the money and asked, "that your money or the bank's?"

"Mine," the farmer told him.

"Keep it.  We only want the bank's."

With no other surprises or any gunfire, the gang left the bank with almost $75,000 -- an enormous sum in those Depression years.

Dillinger enjoyed making fun of his pursuers whenever he had the opportunity. During the summer of 1933 he had taken Mary Longnaker to the Chicago World's Fair and amused himself by asking police officers to pose for pictures despite the fact he was wanted for several robberies. After his arrest in Dayton , Ohio , Matt Leach, a captain in the Indiana State Police, interrogated him. Leach had a propensity to stutter when excited. Dillinger took note of this and would call and taunt him over the telephone referring to him as the "stuttering bastard." Later, when the "Dillinger Squad" was formed by Captain John Stege of the Chicago Police Department, Dillinger would call and taunt Sergeant Frank Reynolds, a key member of the unit.

During November 1933, the gang fired two members. Ed Shouse, who had been hitting on Dillinger's girlfriend Billie, was talking about robbing a bank on his own. The other gang members tossed him a roll of bills and told him to hit the road. He did so, taking Red Hamilton's car and heading to California . Next was Harry Copeland who had been drinking so much that the gang considered him unreliable. Two days after his ouster, he got drunk in a Chicago bar and began slapping around a woman he met. Police were called and he was arrested and eventually sent to Michigan City . On November 15, Dillinger and Billie were almost caught by Chicago police outside a doctor's office near the Loop . A Dr. Charles Eye was treating Dillinger for a minor skin condition. The two escaped pursuit after a wild chase in which Dillinger impressed the police with his driving ability.

The gang moved to Milwaukee where they planned the robbery of the American Bank and Trust in Racine , Wisconsin .  On November 20, 1933, the good-looking, well-dressed Henry Pierpont confidently walked into the bank with a roll of paper under his arm.   Then he pasted up a big Red Cross poster in the picture window of the bank, which happened to block the tellers' cages from being seen from the street.  Mrs. Henry Patzke, the bookkeeper noticed, but didn't think anything of it.

Shortly afterward, Dillinger, Makley and Hamilton walked into the bank and went up to the window where Harold Graham, the head teller stood.  "Go to the next window, please," he told them.  Graham had heard someone say that it was a stickup, but the phrase was often bantered around as a joke.

Makley repeated his order more forcefully, "Stick 'em up!"  Graham made a sudden movement and Makley fired, hitting Graham in the elbow and hip.  Graham fell and set off the silent alarm that rang in the police station.

Pierpont ordered everyone to the floor, flat on their stomachs, while Dillinger got the cashier and bank president to open the vault.  Shortly afterwards, two policemen walked to the bank, expecting that this was just another false alarm, like many other ones before it.  When they walked into the bank, Pierpont relieved one of them of his gun and told Makley to "get that punk with his machine gun!"

Makley fired at Sergeant Hansen and wounded him twice, but not too seriously.  It was enough to start a panic: women inside the bank were screaming hysterically, a crowd was gathering outside and armed men were appearing from police cars.  They grabbed several hostages, but only two -- Mrs. Patzke and the bank president -- went with them in the getaway car.  Not long after, the two hostages were let go unharmed.

Five days later, the gang made another spectacular robbery, getting over $27,000 from the American Bank and Trust Company in Racine , Wisconsin . Although nobody was killed, several bursts of machine gun fire were unleashed to scare away bystanders and approaching law enforcement officials. Several hostages were taken. Some sat in the car with the bandits while others were forced to ride on the running boards of the automobile providing a human shield for the escaping gang.

After laying low in Chicago for one month, the gang headed to Daytona Beach , Florida , to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve. Shortly before they left, the police received a tip that one of the gang's cars was being repaired at a local garage. Staking it out, the tip paid off when Red Hamilton and his girlfriend showed up to retrieve the auto. Unfortunately, when a Chicago police sergeant confronted Hamilton , the bank robber drew first and fatally wounded the officer.

The Chicago Police Department then established an elite group dubbed the "Dillinger Squad," headed by Captain John Stege, to track down the gang. Six days later the special squad kicked down a Chicago apartment door and blasted three gunmen to death. For three hours it was believed the Dillinger gang had been wiped out until fingerprints revealed the dead men were three wanted Jewish criminals. Just two days before, Matt Leach's men accidentally killed a law enforcement officer in Illinois as they surrounded and captured Ed Shouse, who had recently returned from California .

Before Christmas arrived, Dillinger and Billie had another one of their jealous spats -- for which they were becoming famous -- ending in Billie being ordered back home to Wisconsin . This didn't bring Dillinger much joy, as he now had to spend the holidays alone while the rest of the gang had their girlfriends or wives with them.

Shortly after New Years, Pierpont decided the gang should head for Tucson , Arizona . Police all over the Midwest were still looking for them and the gang had plenty of money to continue to lay low. Dillinger decided to drive back and get Billie. Hamilton went with him. Along the way the two decided to rob the First National Bank of Gary , Indiana on January 15, 1934. This foolish impulse would be a costly one as Hamilton was wounded and Dillinger killed police officer William Patrick O'Malley during the escape.

The rest of the gang was not faring well either. On January 23, the hotel in which Makley and Clark were staying caught fire. Fire fighters, at the request of the two, went into their third floor room and saved their luggage, including one bag which contained their weapons. The following day one of the firemen recognized Clark from a picture in True Detective magazine and notified police. Dillinger and Billie arrived later that day and registered in a motor court near Pierpont and his girlfriend, Mary Kinder. The next day Tucson police rounded up all four gang members in short order and without one shot being fired. The Tucson police had done in five hours what law enforcement agencies all over the Midwest had been unable to do in four months.

The next few days were a circus as news crews were allowed to photograph and interview the famous prisoners. Meanwhile, law enforcement officers from three states were fighting over where the men were going to be extradited. Ohio wanted Pierpont, Makley and Clark for the Sheriff Sarber killing and Indiana wanted Dillinger for the O'Malley murder. Meanwhile, Wisconsin wanted all four for the Racine bank robbery, boasting that their state prison system was far superior to Indiana and Ohio 's.

The states began to fight over the prisoners even offering to pay the Tucson authorities higher rewards for the bandits. Wisconsin pledged the highest rewards and local law officials were eager to collect. As for the gang members themselves, they all wanted to go to Wisconsin where they wouldn't be tried for murder. The gang remained calm for the most part until Matt Leach showed up with a witness who positively identified Dillinger as O'Malley's murderer. Once fingered, Dillinger grew irritated and paced in his cell like a wild animal. Pierpont on the other hand flew into a cursing rage when he saw Leach because the lawman had once arrested his mother while in pursuit of the gang.

The battle for the legal rights to Dillinger ended when he was hustled into a car and driven out to the Tucson airport. At the airport, Dillinger began a wild struggle to get free from the lawmen. A fortunate newspaper photographer, who was on hand to cover another story at the airport, excitedly took pictures of Dillinger cursing and spitting as the police dragged him to a small aircraft. The opportunistic photographer rushed back to develop his pictures only to find out that he had forgotten to pull the protective plate from the film pack that he had inserted in the camera. He was left with a roll of blank pictures.

Once inside the plane, Dillinger's leg was cuffed to a post behind the pilot's seat. Dillinger cracked, "Hell, I don't jump out of these things." Lake County, Indiana, Prosecutor, Robert Estill flew with Dillinger, first to Douglas, Arizona, where they boarded another plane which took them to El Paso, before heading to Midway Airport in Chicago.

Meanwhile, back in Tucson , even the local law enforcement people were enraged with Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach as the reward money he issued only came to $300. Since Dillinger had been whisked away, he refused to pay any reward money toward him. One of the Tucson police officers, who had helped in the capture of the bank robbers, seized Leach by the lapels and shouted, "You're everything Pierpont said you were. A double-crossing rat." The remaining gang members, Pierpont, Makley and Clark, were shipped back to Ohio by train where they would be tried for the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber.

When Dillinger arrived at Midway, the entire "Dillinger Squad" of the Chicago Police Department greeted him. He turned pale when he met Sergeant Frank Reynolds, the squad member who Dillinger had taunted over the telephone. He was tossed into the backseat of Reynolds's car where he was shackled to two officers. Then a thirteen-car procession, accompanied by a dozen police motorcycles with sirens screaming, headed to Crown Point prison in Indiana . Along the way spectators lined the street to watch the caravan go by.

Dillinger was taken to the office of Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley. Mrs. Holley, the mother of twin eight-year-old daughters, was serving out the term of her husband, who had been killed in the line of duty. The sheriff's office was jammed with news reporters who treated Dillinger like a celebrity, firing questions at him and laughing at his cocky responses. One reporter noted that Dillinger's "manner was good natured but a bit condescending as if he were superior to anyone in the room."

Newsreel cameramen where busy taking movies and photographers continued to snap pictures. Soon Dillinger, Estill and Holley were asked to pose together. One photographer shouted for Estill to put his arm around Dillinger, which he did with Dillinger resting his elbow on Estill's shoulder. The negative press Estill received from the photograph, which was run in newspapers across the country as well as on newsreels, would one day cost him his chance to become governor of Indiana .

Ignoring the growing criticism from the photograph, Estill set about preparing his case against Dillinger who was arraigned on February 9, 1934. The tiny courtroom was mobbed with reporters and photographers. Security was beefed up in the belief that the remaining Dillinger gang member still at large, Red Hamilton, was putting his own gang together to come and spring his partner. In addition to the local security already in place, several members of the Indiana National Guard were requested to help out.

Before Dillinger even made it to Crown Point , the wheels of corruption were turning. Meyer Bogue had been a fellow inmate of Dillinger's at Michigan City prison. Invited to escape with the others during the September 1933 jailbreak, Bogue declined, having just three months left on his sentence. Bogue knew Hymie Cohen and Sonny Sheetz, leaders of the East Chicago , Indiana underworld. It was rumored that the two were familiar with Dillinger. In {Dillinger: The Untold Story}, a book in which William J. Helmer completes the original work of George Russell Girardin, the writers claim, "Dillinger had bought protection from him (Sheetz) in the past, and made payment from bank robberies that were arranged through East Chicago."

After Dillinger was captured in Tucson , Bogue approached Chicago attorney Louis Piquette and told him, "I think I can get you to be Dillinger's lawyer. I'm sure Dillinger doesn't have a lawyer and he'll be glad to take whoever they (Cohen and Sheetz) recommend." After Dillinger arrived at Crown Point , Sam Cahoon, a trusty at the prison, passed a business card to him. "Call no attorney but this one. Gang raising necessary funds for defense." The name of the attorney on the card - Louis Piquette.

The son of a blacksmith, Piquett was described as a "short, chubby, middle-aged man of vitality and charm." His iron-gray hair was styled into a three-inch high pompadour. He never attended law school, but instead was self-taught as he waited tables and tended bar. He failed the Illinois bar exam more than a dozen times before he finally passed. He then served a short term as an assistant prosecutor for the city of Chicago . His talent was in his courtroom performances where his magnetic personality, melodramatic speeches, and emotional appeals fascinated jurors. A friend once advised him to stop taking on so many criminal clients. "Why?" Piquett asked him, "They're the only ones who have money these days."

In the northwest corner of Indiana there are three counties, which touch the southern tip of Lake Michigan . The western-most is Lake County , which nestles up to Cook County just across the border in Illinois . Lake County contains the cities of East Chicago and Gary . Twenty miles south, almost smack dab in the center of the county is the city of Crown Point with its prison. In the eastern-most county, bordering the lake, wrapped 30 miles away from Gary , is Michigan City .

During the February 9 arraignment Piquette asked for and received a delay of 30 days to prepare his case. Judge William Murray, assigned to hear the case, set a March 12 date for the trial to begin. On February 12 Prosecutor Estill requested that Dillinger be held at Michigan City prison until the trial started. After an impassioned argument, Judge Murray refused to have Dillinger removed from Crown Point . It was a decision that would come back to haunt him.

On March 3, the first of three events occurred which would etch the name of John Dillinger in the criminal history books for all time. The facts surrounding this event are questionable. However, on that morning Dillinger secured a gun, whether it was a wooden gun he carved himself, a wooden gun smuggled into him, or possibly even a real gun smuggled into him will never be known.

It was a local joke in Crown Point that even the fabled Houdini could not get out of the "escape-proof" Crown Point prison, but Dillinger was in the process of doing just that. At 9:00 o'clock in the morning, using the wooden gun, he began his methodical escape by locking up several trusties, a jail attendant, a deputy sheriff, and the prison warden - each time getting valuable information from them about the prison's layout. Dillinger knew he couldn't go far with the firepower he had and using the deputy sheriff, Ernest Blunk, he now went to the warden's office where he took two Thompson sub-machine guns.

Dillinger now marched back toward the cells with Blunk, another trusty and a national guardsman. Once back at the cells Dillinger asked the prisoners there if any wanted to go with him. A black man, Herbert Youngblood, awaiting trial for murder, elected to go and was handed one of the machineguns. Two other inmates also accepted the invitation and the group headed off to the rear of the prison where the garage was located. On the way there, Dillinger collected three vigilante farmers, who had volunteered their efforts to guard the famous prisoner. Once in the garage, the two would-be escapee inmates got cold feet and locked themselves in a washroom with the three farmers.

In the garage, Dillinger captured an assortment of people including the jail cook, kitchen helpers, several more trusties and the warden's mother-in-law. While Youngblood held the group at gunpoint, Dillinger sought out an automobile for the escape. Asking garage mechanic Edward Saager which car was the fastest, he was told it was the sheriff's automobile. After pulling the ignition wires from the other cars in the garage, Dillinger, Youngblood, deputy sheriff Blunk and the mechanic Saager climbed into Sheriff Lillian Holley's car. With Blunk driving, the four calmly left the prison.

The most celebrated prisoner in the country had escaped from the "escape-proof" prison without one shot being fired. After getting out of town, Dillinger ordered Blunk to stop. He handed Saager $4 so the two could get back to town and apologized that he didn't have more to spare. Before they drove off, Dillinger looked at the two hostages standing in the road. He grinned and said, "I'll remember you at Christmas." It was a promise Dillinger wouldn't keep.

Dillinger made one mistake though, by driving the stolen sheriff's car across state lines, from Indiana to Illinois , he had violated a federal law, thus inviting J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to join the manhunt.

In Chicago , Captain John Stege, who had just disbanded the "Dillinger Squad," was alerted to be on the lookout for the sheriff's automobile. It seems only fitting that in a climax to the day's events that the wrong license plate number was passed along to the police Captain by an excited Crown Point official.

In the wake of Dillinger's escape from Crown Point , Judge Murray impaneled a grand jury to investigate. On March 8, he discharged them after discovering that the foreman was the owner of the garage from which Dillinger stole Sheriff Holley's automobile, and was the employer of Edward Saager. A second grand jury was convened and, on April 3, they returned with their results. Paramount in their findings was the fact that, "Judge Murray's failure to permit the transfer of Dillinger to Michigan City was the prime cause for the escape!" The jurors other findings concluded the escape was successful due to: "(1) the coolness, alertness and reputation of Dillinger himself; (2) the help of Herbert Youngblood; (3) laxity of jail officials; (4) collusion of Cahoon and Blunk (both of whom were indicted); (5) an indifferent and unreliable trusty working as a turnkey."

Blunk had wavered from his tale of Dillinger having a wooden gun and later claimed that is was a real gun. The jurors decided that, at least when the jailbreak began, that the gun was made of wood. Blunk quickly made the observation, "I think that I'm going to be made the goat in this case."

Judge Murray was incensed. In Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life , by author Robert Cromie and the late Dillinger historian, Joseph Pinkston, they reveal:

"Judge Murray.demanded to know why he should have paid any heed to a 'prosecutor who had just finished hugging Dillinger.'

"Judge Murray also pointed out that he had no power to transfer Dillinger unless the prisoner's life was endangered by mob violence. He added, "The report is worded in language not contemplated in law. It is lacking in the respect due courts of justice and judicial officers, and is particularly disrespectful to this particular court and its judge, and contains language which scandalizes the court."

The judge promptly initiated contempt proceedings against the entire grand jury. A few days later he directed that the findings of the grand jury be "expunged" and he discharged the members. Blunk and Cahoon were eventually exonerated.

The town itself was left to carry out a sentence of ridicule from the rest of the country. Letters arrived at the Crown Point post office addressed to Wooden Gun, Indiana and Clown Point , Indiana .

Dillinger went straight to Chicago so he could form a new gang and get some money quickly.  Unlike the original gang in which members were carefully chosen, Dillinger needed men fast.  John Hamilton was second in command.  They chose Lester Gillis, known as "Baby Face Nelson," to join up with them.  Nelson was a mentally unstable, trigger-happy psychopath who killed for the pleasure of it.  He was a short, young man with an explosive temper who had been part of the Capone gang. Homer Van Meter, Dillinger's friend from the Pendleton Reformatory and Michigan City was brought in as well.  Van Meter brought in two others, Eddie Green, a very experienced bank robber and Tommy Carroll, an expert gunman.

The new gang relocated itself to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota .  Eddie Green was an excellent "jugmarker," a man who evaluated bank targets and recommended which ones to rob.  Green had already selected the first target and on March 6, 1934, a few days after the Crown Point escape, the new Dillinger Gang hit the Security National Bank and Trust in Sioux Falls , South Dakota . 

While the robbery went off without a hitch, there was one event that bore the signature of the inveterate comic, Homer Van Meter.  Jay Robert Nash tells the story of how Tommy Carroll stood in the street outside the bank with a machine gun in his hands.   "By the time Dillinger and the others came out of the bank, Carroll had lined up Sioux Falls ' entire police force, including the chief.

Thousands of spectators milled around the bank, bemused.  The good citizens thought the robbery was part of a film being made.  A Hollywood producer had been in town a day previous telling everyone that he intended to make a gangster film there.  The "film producer" had been Homer Van Meter.

After dashing off with $49,000, Dillinger got several miles out of town when he stopped the car and sprinkled roofing nails all over the road.  "That ought to slow them up," he said.  And it did.

This was the first robbery where Dillinger had been the undisputed leader.  Ironically, authorities in Sioux Falls did not believe it was Dillinger who robbed the bank.

When Dillinger got his share of the money, he called his lawyer, Louis Piquett, and asked him to use the money to pay Pierpont, Makley and Clark 's attorneys.  Mary Kinder was to be the courier.  Mary called the number that Piquett had given her and arranged to meet Van Meter.  Van Meter gave her $2,000 in cash, but wouldn't let her know where Johnnie was.

In March 1934, Harry Pierpont's trial began for the murder of Lima , Ohio Sheriff Jess Sarber. With Dillinger now on the loose, the city was in a state of siege as every available law enforcement officer, as well as members of the Ohio National Guard, stood by as rumors were rampant that Dillinger and Hamilton were on their way to spring their three former gang mates.

Pierpont's trial was a circus.  He was led into the courtroom in shackles and surrounded by machine-gun wielding guards.  His mother had testified that the day of Sheriff Sarber's death, her son was home with her on her farm.  However, Ed Shouse, the treacherous gang member from Chicago , provided surprise testimony against Pierpont when he took the stand.

Toland tells how the prosecutor accused Harry of engineering $300,000 in bank robberies in the short time he was out of jail.  "'I wish I had,' Pierpont told the court.   'Well, at least if I did, I'm not like some bank robbers -- I didn't get myself elected president of the bank first.'

"The crowd burst into laughter and the judge ordered the last few lines stricken from the record.

"'That's the kind of man you are, isn't it?' prodded [the prosecutor].

"'Yes," retorted the prisoner, encouraged by the audience response.   "I'm not the kind of man you are -- robbing widows and orphans.  You'd probably be like me if you had the nerve."

The prosecutor demanded the death penalty.  The jury deliberated less than an hour before determining that Harry Pierpont was guilty as charged.  There was no recommendation for mercy. In short order both Charles Makley and Russell Clark were tried and found guilty. Pierpont and Makley were sentenced to die in Ohio 's electric chair, while Clark was given a life sentence.

Back in the Twin Cities, jugmarker Eddie Green sent the gang off again a week later to the First National Bank of Mason City , Iowa .  The bank's vault reputedly contained more than $240,000 -- a veritable fortune in those days.  On March 13, 1934, Assistant Cashier Harry Fisher looked up to see who was causing all the commotion.  Three well-dressed men -- Van Meter, Green and Hamilton -- were waving guns at bank president Willis Bagley.  Guard Tom Walters saw what was going on and fired a tear-gas pellet into Eddie Green's back.

Green grabbed a hostage to use as a shield.  "I said everybody down!," he yelled and fired a burst of shots over everyone's heads.  He also aimed at Tom Walters and hit him.

Hamilton ordered cashier Harry Fisher to pass him money through the locked, barred door.  Fisher started with the $1 bills.  Hamilton could see the stacks of bills just inside the vault.  Hamilton told him to open up the door, but Fisher told him he couldn't because he didn't have the key.  He continued to hand him stacks of $1 bills.

Outside Dillinger was lining up hostages on the sidewalk.  After five minutes, he yelled to Van Meter to tell the men inside that it was time to leave.  Hamilton told Fisher to give him the big bills, but Fisher kept on handing him the little denominations.   Van Meter told Hamilton that they were going immediately.

"It's hell to leave all that money back there," he said.  Of the $200,000, Fisher had only passed him about $20,000.  Hamilton picked up a huge bag of pennies, grabbed a human shield and left the bank.  Once inside the getaway car, Dillinger had the hostages lined up on the running boards.  Loaded down with human shields, the car could only travel at 15 miles an hour.

Suddenly an older woman, Miss Minnie Piehm, who had been hanging on the car desperately, yelled, "Let me out!  This is where I live!"  Dillinger let her off and the car proceeded slowly forward like a local service bus.

The police followed, but did not get too close, fearful of starting a gun battle in which the hostages on the running boards would be injured.  Periodically, Nelson fired his machine gun at them, but eventually the police gave up and stopped following.   Some thirteen miles later, they released the hostages, frozen from the cold ride. 

The robbery had netted the bandits some $52,000.  Hamilton was very upset that he hadn't just killed Fisher the cashier and not let the cashier make such a fool of him with the small bills. The Mason City robbery had not gone smoothly, both Dillinger and Hamilton were hit in the shoulder with bullets, while Nelson wounded an innocent bystander.

Dillinger was making plans to get enough money together to leave the country.  He knew that his extraordinary luck could not hold much longer.  He did not want to end up like Pierpont, Makley and Clark.  Makley, like Harry Pierpont, got the death sentence.  Clark got life in prison.  There was no chance that Dillinger would be able to spring them this time.  The prison was guarded like Fort Knox .

FBI agents in St. Paul got a tip that a man of Dillinger's description and called himself Carl Hellman was living with a woman who looked a lot like Billie Frechette.  On the evening of March 31, 1934, two FBI agents knocked at Hellman's door.  Billie answered and told the agents that her husband Carl was sleeping.  They wouldn't go away, so she went into the bedroom and woke up Dillinger, who quickly dressed and grabbed a machine gun.

While the FBI agents waited, Homer Van Meter came up the stairs.  Van Meter told them he was a soap salesman.  When the agents wanted proof, Van Meter took one of them downstairs to show him the soap samples he supposedly had in the car.  When the two men reached the first floor of the apartment building, Van Meter pulled a pistol on the agent.

"You asked for it, so I'll give it to you now!" Van Meter told him.

The agent ran through the door and Van Meter followed him, shooting.  The agent returned fire and Van Meter went back to the apartment building, escaping out the rear to safety. By this time, Dillinger was spraying the upstairs hallway with a machine gun, while the other FBI agent hid in the hallway.

Billie ran out of the apartment house with a suitcase, followed by Dillinger and the machine gun and sped off in a car.  In the hallway shootout, Dillinger, who was still recovering from his shoulder wound, was shot in the leg. Van Meter had hijacked a truck and escaped to Eddie Green's apartment in Minneapolis .

Hoover sent one of his best men, Hugh Clegg, to St. Paul to take charge of the Dillinger case.  An emergency effort was launched to find any other Dillinger safe houses.  They found one in St. Paul and kept it under constant surveillance.   Eventually a woman showed up to clean the apartment.  When the FBI agents questioned her, she told them that a man was going to her home that night to pay her.   Agents waited until Eddie Green showed up and told him to surrender.  The unarmed Green didn't surrender until the agents had shot him several times in the head.  Green, in terrible pain, gave the FBI the names of the other gang members in exchange for some pain medicine.   A week later, he died of infection.

On April 5, Dillinger astonished his father by showing up at the Mooresville farm with Billie.  His father warned him about the FBI agents that were lurking around, but Johnnie had taken precautions.  Two days later,  the couple drove to the Pierpont farm to give Harry's parents some money for legal fees, but the farm was deserted. Then Dillinger went to the offices of an Indianapolis newspaper, brazenly read about his various adventures and ordered some copies to be sent to his father. Dillinger and Billie returned to the Mooresville farm where they attended a family picnic on April 8 under the watchful eye of FBI agents.

Following Dillinger's visit to the farm, events would happen fast and furious for the remainder of his short life. Dillinger and Billie returned to Chicago on April 9. Looking to find a safe house to rest up for a few days, Dillinger telephoned a friend who told him to meet him at the State-Austin Inn on North State Street . Unbeknownst to Dillinger, his friend had become an informer and called the FBI. Dillinger drove to the tavern around 8:00 p.m. and sent Billie in to make sure the coast was clear. It wasn't. Armed agents quickly surrounded her. Watching the commotion from across the street, Dillinger simply drove away, seething on the inside. It would be the last time the two lovers would ever see each other.

Dillinger left word for Piquette to handle Billie's case. The feisty Billie was taken to the FBI offices in the Bankers Building where she was handcuffed and questioned throughout the night. In an attempt to belittle her captors, she told them that she went to the tavern to meet Dillinger, who after witnessing the arrest, calmly strolled past the eager agents and out the door.

Dillinger quickly hooked up with Van Meter and, on the night of April 12, they robbed the Warsaw , Indiana police station of two revolvers and four bulletproof vests. Between April 13 and April 20 Dillinger and Van Meter were reported in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; South Bend , Elkhart and Fort Wayne , Indiana ; and Niles , Michigan . Many believe they returned to Chicago after the Warsaw robbery and never left.

On April 20 the gang did leave Chicago - in three cars headed for northern Wisconsin and a resort called Little Bohemia. In 1969 Dillinger historian, Joseph Pinkston, would provide the link between Dillinger and Little Bohemia when he revealed that Louis Piquette was Emil Wanatka's lawyer. There was never any evidence to indicate Wanatka knew Dillinger was coming or that Wanatka knew Piquette was the bank robber's attorney.

Taking refuge at the small resort, the second of the three events that built the Dillinger legend occurred.

After the shoot out at Little Bohemia, the Dillinger Gang scattered in several directions. In Park Falls , Wisconsin , Dillinger, Hamilton and Van Meter commandeered an automobile and headed toward St. Paul . While on the way, they heard news reports that law enforcement was awaiting them. They turned around and headed for Chicago . While resting south of St. Paul , they came under fire from sheriff's deputies shooting at them with a high powered rifle as they slept on a deserted country road. Dillinger and Van Meter stood on the running boards and returned fire, forcing their adversaries to flee. One of the officer's bullets had ripped through the trunk of the car entering Hamilton 's back and lodging in his intestines.

There are different stories as to what happened next. The older version goes that Hamilton was taken to a safe house where the gang stayed with members of the Barker Gang outside St. Paul . Other sources claim Hamilton was driven back to Chicago where Dillinger tried to get medical help for him from the infamous Dr. Charles Moran. A later writing claims Hamilton was taken to an old shack near an abandoned mine near Jenkinsville , Wisconsin . He died there between four and six days after the Little Bohemia raid. His body was taken to Oswego , Illinois and buried after lye was poured on his face and hands to discourage identification. In August 1935, it was alleged that tips from Barker Gang members led to the discovery of Hamilton 's body. Like Dillinger, there would be stories that Hamilton had survived the shooting and continued to live on.

Ironically after the deaths of Dillinger and Nelson, Hamilton would be named Public Enemy Number One after he was "identified" as having taken part in a bank robbery in Kansas . He was removed from the Most Wanted List in August 1935 after his body was discovered in a gravel pit grave over a year after his death.

After the death of John Dillinger in 1934, George Russell Girardin, an aspiring advertising executive, was introduced to Louis Piquette. Girardin had followed the exploits of the infamous bank robber like most Chicagoans, but his chance meeting with the outlaw's attorney led to a renewed interest. Working with Piquette and his private investigator, Arthur O'Leary, Girardin agreed to a collaboration, which resulted in a weekly column published in the Saturday edition of the Hearst newspapers from October 1936 through January 1937. In addition, Girardin prepared an extensive manuscript, but when the Hearst organization wanted a cut of the profits from a book deal the project was shelved - for over 50 years.

In the late 1980s William J. Helmer, recognized as one of the outstanding historians of the Mid-West Crime Wave era, with the help of Dillinger expert Joseph Pinkston, was able to contact Girardin, who to Helmer's astonishment was still alive. Although Girardin died shortly after the two met, the manuscript, laced with Helmer's additional knowledge and research, was published as Dillinger: The Untold Story in 1994. A good portion of Girardin's narrative was provided by O'Leary, whom Girardin stated, "enjoyed recreating conversations between himself and Dillinger." The story helps clear up much of the mystery surrounding the outlaw's movements between Little Bohemia and the Biograph.

One fact that Helmer confirms, that Jay Robert Nash pointed out 25 years earlier in his controversial book Dillinger: Dead or Alive , was that Louis Piquette's influence permeated all of Dillinger's activities.

According to O'Leary, after Dillinger and Van Meter buried Hamilton , they made their way back to Chicago arriving around the end of April. They purchased a red truck and over the next few weeks they spent most of their time "in a timbered region near East Chicago ." When not sleeping in a small shack they came across, they took turns sleeping in the truck, which they outfitted with a mattress. During this time they were joined by Tommy Carroll, who arrived on a freight train from St. Paul disguised as a hobo.

Dillinger was concerned about Billie Frechette's trial, which was taking place in St. Paul . She would eventually be convicted of harboring Dillinger and sentenced to two years in a federal prison in Milan , Michigan .

Dillinger continued to live in the truck until Piquette made arrangements for a safe house in late May. One of the places Dillinger stayed was a tourist camp in Crown Point . Girardin says O'Leary questioned him about his choice of shelter. "Weren't you afraid to go back there?"

"Dillinger chuckled, 'Why, Crown Point 's the safest place in America ."

Girardin explains, "Strange as it may seem," Piquette was approached by a number of people who wanted to "harbor the famous outlaw." It wasn't because they were fans of the desperado willing to take the chance of facing a harboring sentence of six months; a conspiracy to harbor sentence of two years; or, worse yet, an invasion of Little Bohemia type proportions - they were taking the risk for the money.

One of these potential "harborers" who questioned Piquette was James "Jimmy" Probasco. A fringe member of the Chicago underworld, Probasco had a reputation of avoiding conviction for the various crimes he had committed over the years. In addition, he had been a casual acquaintance of Piquette for nearly 20 years. Probasco's insistence with Piquette came down to, "I have to raise some money." His charge was $50 per day for room and board.

At the same time, Dillinger had been talking to O'Leary about "a secret hideout and plastic surgery which would enable him to move about with less fear of detection." Selected to perform the surgery by Piquette was Wilhelm Loeser, a German doctor who had spent three years in Leavenworth for a narcotics violation. O'Leary found an assistant to help Loeser, Dr. Harold Bernard Cassidy.

On May 27 Dillinger moved into Probasco's home on Crawford Avenue after agreeing to a reduced rate of $35 a day. The night he arrived he met Piquette and O'Leary there and plans were made to have the surgery performed the following day. The price was $5,000. Cassidy would receive $600 and the balance would be split equally between Loeser, Piquette and O'Leary.

Dillinger, the brazen bank robber who had survived countless shootouts with law enforcement, nearly met his end before surgery could begin. Girardin writes:

"Dillinger, however, seemed to be fighting the anesthetic, and Cassidy administered the entire contents of the can in an effort to put him under. Suddenly a bluish tint began to creep over his face, as his breathing and heartbeat stopped. Cassidy's countenance whitened and he staggered against the wall, unable to utter a word. O'Leary, noting the consternation of the young physician and alarmed at Dillinger's appearance, shouted for Loeser.

"The German fairly flew into the room and began applying artificial respiration. Probasco, hearing the commotion, hurried to the scene and stood in the doorway.

"My God, he's dead!' he kept shouting, sobered probably for one of the few times in recent years. 'Oh, my God, oh, my God!' O'Leary threw open the bedroom window to allow the ether fumes to escape, and then hastened to silence the clamoring Probasco."

Despite the brush with death it was decided that the surgery would continue, but under a local anesthetic. The doctors removed three moles from Dillinger's forehead, a small scar on his upper lip, flesh below the ear lobes, and pulled the cheeks tighter. In addition there was some work on the nose of the outlaw and tissue from the cheeks was used to fill in the dimple on Dillinger's chin. It was not an easy operation as Girardin describes:

"Dillinger remained in a groggy state even under the local anesthetic, and would wince and squirm as the cuts were made. He bled profusely, so that the bed was soaked, and the doctors were much hampered by his violent vomiting throughout the operation"

Whether the surgery provided the required results is in some dispute. Dillinger was said to have been "greatly pleased" with the results and even talked Homer Van Meter into having the procedure done days later. O'Leary felt that Dillinger's looks had changed considerably. On the other hand, Piquette told the bank robber that he looked like he had been in a dogfight. Piquette later stated, "Loeser couldn't remove feathers from a pigeon's tail."

Van Meter would not be happy with the results of his surgery and even threatened to kill Loeser. To appease Van Meter's anger the versatile Dr. Loeser provided new birth certificates for both men.

The month that Dillinger spent at the Probasco residence was the longest period of time that the bank robber had spent in one place since he left Michigan City . As the surgical scars healed Dillinger began to venture out. He went to baseball games at Wrigley Field, made two trips to the Chicago World's Fair and attended theatres where he was "passionately fond of gangster movies." In addition, he enjoyed the nightlife and company of women, sometimes prostitutes. He was occasionally joined by Van Meter who was now living at the Probasco dwelling at the reduced rate of $25 per day. Dillinger was said to have dyed his hair black, grown a mustache and began wearing glasses.

During the time Dillinger was at Probasco's home, Piquette and O'Leary visited often. O'Leary arrived almost every other day. It would take him two hours to complete the fifteen-minute trip as he was always on the look out for tails from the FBI or the Dillinger Squad.

Dillinger and Van Meter listened sadly to a radio report on June 7 that announced that policemen in Waterloo , Iowa had killed Tommy Carroll. The group that had left for Little Bohemia seven weeks earlier consisting of six gang members was now cut in half. "Baby Face" Nelson, who would make occasional visits to the Probasco home, was still around the northern Illinois area refusing to stay in one place more than two nights in a row. His wife Helen had recently joined him. She was granted probation instead of jail time by a sympathetic judge after her conviction for harboring in the wake of Little Bohemia.

On June 21 Van Meter, missing his girlfriend, Marie Comforti, drove to her home and the two left for a rooming house in Calumet City , Illinois . Van Meter lived there on and off with her, returning to the Probasco home at various times.

While Dillinger was enjoying himself in Chicago , reports of his presence were being reported all over the United States and in Europe . O'Leary and Piquette were visited on several occasions by beautiful women who claimed they were acquaintances of "Johnnie," but the two men believed them to be female government agents. Harry Pierpont's mother arrived at Piquette's office one day with a note for Dillinger from his former partner who was languishing on death row. Pierpont was requesting if there was anyway possible for Dillinger to "rescue" him and Charlie Makley. A layout of the section the men were in accompanied the note. Pierpont signed off saying, "If you can't make it, Johnnie, I'll see you in hell. Harry."

On a sort of comical note, O'Leary one day returned to the law office and informed Piquette that Dillinger and Van Meter had formulated a plan to rob three banks at once in the town of Platteville, Wisconsin - the attorney's home-town. Piquette and O'Leary drove immediately to the Probasco home where the lawyer pleaded with the two bank robbers to abandon the plan because his family and friends could be affected and that it would appear as though he had "cased" the banks for them. After Piquette threatened to drop him as a client, Dillinger relented. As Piquette and his investigator left the house, Van Meter glared at O'Leary and grunted, "Why don't you keep your mouth shut, anyway?"

On June 30, 1934 the Dillinger Gang robbed its last bank. Shortly before noon on this warm Saturday morning, the gang arrived at the Merchant's National Bank in South Bend , Indiana . There are several versions of the robbery. Discrepancies involve how many robbers were there, who they were, and who was inside the bank as opposed to standing guard outside. Despite all the inconsistencies in what took place one thing is for certain - it was Dillinger's bloodiest encounter ever.

In Dillinger: The Untold Story , Girardin claims four men - Dillinger, Van Meter, "Baby Face" Nelson and an unidentified man - made up the gang. William J. Helmer, although co-writing Girardin's effort wrote in his own Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past , published in 1998, that the group consisted of six men. In addition to the previously mentioned, he identifies John Paul Chase, an associate of Nelson, and suggests that the other two were Jack Perkins, another Nelson associate, and Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd.

According to one account, a man, believed to be Floyd, fired his machinegun to get everyone's attention inside the bank. It also got everyone's attention outside the bank. Police officer Howard Wagner came on the run. Using a stalled car with occupants as a shield, the officer took several pot shots at Van Meter as the lookout was battling other defenders. When the automobile took off leaving Wagner exposed Van Meter cut the officer down, killing him.

A jewelry shop owner ran out of his store with a pistol and fired at Nelson. Saved by his bulletproof vest, Nelson spun around and fired wildly wounding two pedestrians. As he did so, a 16-year-old tried to stop him by jumping on his back. Nelson was wondering what the hell was going on with the citizens of South Bend . One had taken a shot at him and another jumped on his back and was trying to choke him. Nelson twisted violently and flung the young attacker through a plate glass window. Stepping back, he fired hitting the youth in the hand.

Dillinger and the others were now exiting the bank with hostages as police and citizens with weapons fired away trying to hit the bandits, but instead were wounding hostages - their greed for the reward money spurring them on. As the gun battle raged, Van Meter was hit in the head and was dragged into the getaway car by Dillinger. Lucky to get out of town alive, the gang headed for a hideout. The last ride of the Dillinger Gang had netted the robbers only $4,800 a piece.

The wound to Van Meter was caused by a .22-caliber revolver. The bullet entered his forehead near the hairline, burrowed under his scalp creasing his skull and coming out six inches away. Probasco, a one-time veterinarian treated him, before Dr. Cassidy arrived.

After recovering from the harrowing experience for a few days, Dillinger and Van Meter vacated the Probasco home without notice on July 4, while their host and Piquette enjoyed a drunken stupor together.

Two people who would play a major role in the demise of John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theatre were Martin Zarkovich of the East Chicago Police Department and Anna Sage, who would become infamous as the "lady in red." There is much mystery surrounding the pair and their connection to John Dillinger, which may have occurred years prior to the Biograph incident. Another disturbing factor in the relationship involving the three is how it tied back to a corrupt political atmosphere in East Chicago and to the Crown Point prison breakout.

Ana Cumpanas was born in 1889 in a small village in Rumania . She married Michael Chiolak and moved to the United States in 1909 and settled in a Slovenian neighborhood around the steel mills of East Chicago , Indiana . Anna Chiolak gave birth to a son, Steve, in 1911. By the end of the decade the marriage was over and Anna was supporting herself and Steve as a prostitute and later as a madam at the establishment of "Big Bill" Subotich's in East Chicago .

It was during this time that she met Martin Zarkovich, a young police officer, six or seven years her junior, on the East Chicago police force. There is uncertainty about their relationship as to whether it was business or pleasure, or both. There is information to support both beliefs including the fact that Mrs. Zarkovich named Anna in her divorce papers.

In 1923 Anna opened a second prostitution operation at the Kostur Hotel in Gary , Indiana . The hotel developed a notorious reputation, as did a saloon that functioned in the basement. The saloon earned the nickname the "Bucket of Blood," while Anna became known as "Katie of the Kostur." Maintaining her two establishments, Anna made a surprising move to Chicago . According to Jay Robert Nash in Dillinger: Dead or Alive :

".on May 16, 1929, she married Alexander Suciu, a prominent person in Chicago 's Rumanian community who later changed his name to Sage. The marriage didn't last. According to Anna, there was trouble between her new husband and her teenage son, Steve Chiolak. Sage later stated that she deserted him on February 4, 1932"

By 1933 Sage was running a house of prostitution out of a bar she operated on North Halsted Street . All the while she kept up her reputation in the Rumanian community, which surrounded the area of her bar. She was said to have attended church regularly and entertained lavishly in her North Halsted Street apartment, located just around the corner from the Biograph theatre.

In contrast, little is known about the early life of Martin Zarkovich. As Zarkovich moved up in rank in the East Chicago Police Department, his relationship with Sage expanded leading to his divorce from his first wife in 1921. Rumors were rampant that Zarkovich and his boss, Captain Timothy O'Neil, had ties to the underworld leaders in Lake County , Indiana . Dillinger nemesis, Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Police actually believed that Sage and Zarkovich were involved in Dillinger's escape from Crown Point . Another connection Zarkovich had to Crown Point was his friendship with Judge William Murray who presided over his divorce proceedings in 1921. Whatever relationship there was between Zarkovich and Sage, the police sergeant wanted everyone to believe it was non-existent during the half decade prior to the Biograph shooting.

Zarkovich claimed that he had not seen Sage between the years 1928 and 1934, yet Nash claims there was a photograph taken of the two with Anna's son on the front steps of Anna's Halsted Street apartment. In Dillinger: Dead or Alive , Nash writes:

"There is also evidence that Zarkovich used his political connections to obtain a pardon for Anna from Indiana Governor Harry G. Leslie in 1932. Four times she had been charged with operating a disorderly house in the early thirties. The first case, dating from her arrest on October 25, 1930, was dismissed after she paid a finger-slapping $60 fine. The second arrest resulted in a series of continuances, which never did reach a conclusion. On February 8 and November 16, 1932, she was again picked up in the Kostur Hotel and charged with the same offense. She obtained a full, inexplicable pardon from Leslie on these last two charges."

However, it was the unresolved second offense that would create a dilemma for Sage when the Immigration Department would step in and pass a deportation order against her as an undesirable alien.

On May 24, 1934 two East Chicago police detectives, Martin O'Brien and Lloyd Mulvihill, were brutally murdered as they sat in their car outside Gary . The two officers were present when Dillinger robbed the First National Bank of East Chicago . Both men were hit numerous times in the face and neck and died instantly. O'Brien was the father of three, Mulvihill had six children.

While "a flock of rumors" circulated, only two were given serious consideration. The detectives were rumored to have been investigating corruption in the East Chicago Police Department. It was reported that an official from the Indiana State Police suspected East Chicago Police Captain O'Neil's involvement in the crime, while other rumors persisted that O'Neil and Zarkovich had murdered the men because they had uncovered information linking the two to organized crime in the area. The fact that neither detective had drawn their weapon led to the conclusion that the two knew their assailants.

The second story was that O'Brien and Mulvihill had just left the station with a tip that Dillinger was nearby. The fact that Dillinger was in the vicinity was confirmed by what Arthur O'Leary later told Girardin. The detectives pulled over a red truck in which Dillinger was alleged to have been living. From the rear of the truck Van Meter reportedly opened fire on the two lawmen killing them. However, it would seem unlikely that being in search of the most wanted man in America that the two seasoned detectives would have been sitting there with their weapons not drawn.

After the murders of the two officers, and the rumors that Dillinger was involved, the following day five states - Illinois , Indiana , Michigan , Minnesota and Ohio - put up a $1,000 reward each. Dillinger's time was running out. Sage's time was running out also. She was desperately looking for a bargaining tool to keep herself from pending deportation.

Between July 4, when Dillinger left the Probasco home, and the night of the shooting outside the Biograph, there are several variations of Dillinger's movements. One of the conflicts that has never been resolved was whether or not Dillinger knew Anna Sage prior to June/July 1934. Therefore creating a second conflict - did Sage introduce Dillinger to his new girlfriend, Polly Hamilton, a part-time waitress and full time prostitute whose work for Sage went back at least ten years, or did Hamilton introduce Dillinger to Sage?

Girardin claims that on July 4 Dillinger moved into Sage's North Halsted Street apartment - lock, stock and arsenal. The writer also claims that Polly Hamilton was living there too, although other historians say she maintained a suite at the Malden Hotel, some distance from the Sage apartment and near her waitressing job.

Dillinger spent the next couple of weeks in the company of the two women and with Sage's son Steve, now in his early twenties. Dillinger was also maintaining contact with O'Leary.

Van Meter went back to the home in Calumet City where he was sharing with Marie Comforti. The two couples took in the World's Fair one night and Dillinger continued to attend Cub's baseball games. Dillinger and Van Meter had washed their hands of "Baby Face" Nelson after the South Bend robbery. They were now making plans together for one last score. Girardin relates the conversation between Dillinger and O'Leary:

"I'll let you in on something, Art. Van and I are going to pull off the biggest job of our lives. It will be one of the biggest jobs in the world. Just me and Van - we're not cutting anybody else in on this. I'll tell you what it is - we're going to take a mail train. We've got it spotted, we've been watching it for weeks, we know all its stops. We need the 'soup' (nitro glycerin) to blow the door of the mail car. We also know how much money it will be carrying, and it's plenty. We'll have enough to last us the rest of our lives, and right after it's over we're lamming it out of the country.'"

The great train robbery - Dillinger style - was scheduled to take place the week after the Biograph shooting.

On Tuesday, July 17 O'Leary visited James Probasco's home to deliver the final payments Dillinger owed him. O'Leary was floored by what Probasco told him. According to Probasco, Louis Piquette had told him that he was "tired of being mixed up with a guy as hot as Dillinger." Piquette suggested that the two of them should "clean ourselves and make a deal with the 'G' to put Johnnie on the spot." What concerned O'Leary was Probasco's contention that part of the plot included killing O'Leary to take the heat off Piquette.

O'Leary had mixed feelings as he mulled over the things Probasco had told him. Mostly he dismissed them, thinking Probasco had blamed Piquette for Dillinger's sudden departure from his home thus losing his $35 daily stipend. Still, the two men had known each other for 20 years. Later that day Dillinger met with O'Leary and he was not in a good mood. Somehow Probasco had passed the same message to the outlaw.

Several things had happened recently to make Dillinger have second thoughts regarding his attorney. Piquette had approached Dillinger about providing the authorities with the information on "Red" Hamilton 's demise so the lawyer could negotiate a reward for himself. Then there was the money given to Piquette for Pierpont and his family that never made it to them. In addition, Dillinger claimed Piquette had been talking too much about surrender.

O'Leary relayed the following conversation to Girardin:

"Art, I want you to get out of town," Dillinger said. "Take your family, and go up to the north woods or some place."

"What do you think you're going to do?" asked O'Leary.

"I'm going up to Piquette's office and leave him my card," replied Dillinger.

Dillinger handed O'Leary $500 and the private investigator said good-bye for the last time, and left Chicago that night. O'Leary later claimed he thought the whole episode was a fabrication by Probasco. It was never revealed whether he related any of this to Piquette before he left town.

Three days later, Friday, July 19, Piquette left Chicago to visit family in Platteville , Wisconsin . He claims the following day he received a telephone call from Dillinger. According to Girardin:

"The outlaw declared that he had reconsidered the matter of surrender, and made an appointment to discuss it further with Piquette on Monday, July 23. Perhaps he was sincere and really desired to end his hunted-animal existence, or perhaps he planned to carry out his threat."

The conversation between Dillinger and Piquette was not the only call burning up the telephone lines on July 21, 1934.

By mid-July Martin Zarkovich and Anna Sage had their plan formulated. The $15,000 reward, which Sage was not concerned about, would be split three ways to include Captain Timothy O'Neil. They had a ready script as to how everything came together. In Dillinger: The Untold Story , George Russell Girardin relates:

"According to the carefully rehearsed narratives broadcast to the world by Sage, Zarkovich, et al., the Rumanian brothelkeeper had never laid eyes on Dillinger until a few days before his death. He was then brought to her house, as merely a visitor, by her young friend Polly Hamilton, who had met him entirely by chance in a cabaret. Anna Sage professed total ignorance of Dillinger's identity until she recognized his picture in a newspaper. Then she became horrified and frightened, and hurried to tell Sergeant Zarkovich, who dutifully informed the federal agents, and that is how it all happened."

"Polly Hamilton would serve as the innocent bait to hold the victim until the trap could be prepared."

As the events unfolded, one of the stories was that Zarkovich and O'Neil went to see Captain John Stege, head of the Chicago Police Department's "Dillinger Squad." They would provide Stege with information to trap Dillinger, but only if the Chicago police would kill the outlaw on the spot. Stege allegedly turned down the offer stating, "I'd even give John Dillinger a chance to surrender."

Plan B was quickly launched. The East Chicago cops would approach the FBI. In the book Dillinger Days , author John Toland states that, "After the Little Bohemia incident, Hoover sent Special Agent Sam Cowley to take over the Special Squad in Chicago but Purvis remained head of the field office with its many responsibilities." Before Cowley left for Chicago he was told by Hoover , "Stay on Dillinger. Go everywhere the trail takes you. Take (arrest) everyone who ever was remotely connected with the gang. Take him alive if you can but protect yourself." The contrast between Purvis and Cowley was sharp. Purvis was small and excitable, while Cowley was big and laid back. Cowley's judgement was sound, but he moved slowly and deliberately.

On Saturday afternoon July 21, Zarkovich and O'Neil telephoned Purvis and told him they wanted to meet in a secluded place to discuss turning over Dillinger. Purvis claims that he had previous contact with the pair and had exchanged information with them. Purvis arranged a meeting in Cowley's room at the Great Northern Hotel at 6:00 that night. The plotters told Purvis and Cowley that Dillinger and Polly Hamilton were frequent visitors at the home of Anna Sage and the three were in the habit of visiting neighborhood theatres. Zarkovich told the agents it was Anna's wish "to make contact with the federal government officials."

The "contact" was set for 9:00 that night on a dark north side street. Jay Robert Nash claims Purvis enjoyed a coup by engineering the meeting so that only he was present to speak to Sage. When the two cars arrived at the designated location, Purvis and Zarkovich were in the first car and Cowley and O'Neil in the second.

In Melvin Purvis's autobiography American Agent he describes the meeting:

"About nine o'clock Anna Sage appeared. She walked past our car and down the street, seeming to survey the situation to determine that there was no trap set for her. She returned and on a signal got into the car. We drove for a while and finally stopped at a secluded spot by the side of Lake Michigan . There she told the story of her acquaintanceship with John Dillinger.

"She was at the time under an order of deportation for violation of a law of the state of Indiana . She seemed to be primarily interested in whether she could trust me. We then came to the point of discussing her desire to remain in the United States . She seemed particularly anxious to do so and had a great fear of deportation. She had reared a son in the United States . It was natural that she should wish to stay here."

Purvis claims he made it clear that his authority was limited. However, he states he agreed to recommend that Sage be allowed to remain in the United States before Anna said she would contact him the next time Dillinger (who she says was using the name Jimmy Lawrence) came to her home. Sage told Purvis that they - Dillinger, Polly and herself - sometimes went to the Marbro Theatre and it was possible they might go there again soon. That same night Purvis had agents surveying the theatre making notes and maps showing all the exits and fire escapes. The following morning, Sunday, July 22, a meeting was held at FBI headquarters in the Banker's Building to review the notes and maps and create a plan of action.

At 5:00 that afternoon, while the agents were still reviewing their plans, Purvis's private phone rang. It was Anna Sage. In a whispered voice she said, "He's here, he's just come in. We are leaving in five minutes. We will go to either the Biograph or the Marbro." With that she hung up.

This created one of the first mysteries of the night's events. Sage lived right around the corner from the Biograph, which was showing the new gangster flick, Manhattan Melodrama , starring Clark Gable (the Marbro was presenting Little Miss Marker with Shirley Temple). At 5:00 she claimed they were leaving in five minutes. The trio wasn't spotted until 8:15. Where had the three been for the last three hours and fifteen minutes?

Jay Robert Nash tried to add to the intrigue by stating that the Marbro was some nine miles away. Would they be walking there in the 100-degree heat wave that had been choking the city? Part of that mystery was cleared up by Sage's son Steve Chiolak who claimed that many times they took taxis to different nightclubs, cabarets and restaurants around the city.

Two agents were sent immediately to the Biograph to retrieve the same information that was developed about the Marbro. Their instructions were to return to the office immediately and provide the information to the men who would eventually take up positions there. Even though Sage had first mentioned the Marbro the night before and again in her hurried phone call, Purvis decided to stake out the Biograph instead. Meanwhile two other men were posted at the Marbro. Historians tell us that one of these men was Zarkovich, since he could spot Sage. The plan was to call the office every five minutes to see if Dillinger had been spotted at either location.

If and when Dillinger was spotted, the information would be relayed back to the office and those at the Banker's Building and the men observing at the other theatre would rush to pre-assigned positions. Purvis sat in an automobile sixty feet south of the Biograph. At approximately 8:15 Dillinger, Hamilton and Sage came around the corner from North Halsted onto Lincoln Avenue . As Dillinger purchased the tickets, one of Purvis's first thoughts was that he was glad to see the man was not wearing a jacket, "because it meant that he could not have many weapons concealed on his person."

Purvis purchased a ticket and entered the theatre, hoping to find three open seats behind his quarry, but claims he could not find the trio in the darkness and left instead of moving further down the aisle and possibly drawing attention. Purvis left the jammed theatre and waited for the other agents and the five members of the East Chicago Police Department. Nobody from the Chicago Police Department had been notified.

It was believed that when the trio left the theatre they would take the same way back to Sage's apartment. Therefore Purvis stationed himself just south of the theatre entrance with the plan to light a cigar when Dillinger and his companions passed. With advertisements and newsreel footage the movie would run two hours and four minutes. This gave the agents, most wearing jackets, plenty of time to sweat it out in the still plus 90 temperature.

Perhaps the most nervous man at the scene was Purvis. In American Agent he provides a candid view of his thoughts:

"There is no way of knowing whether Dillinger would stay for the whole show. Some patron in the theatre might arouse his suspicions, causing him to leave before the expiration of the two hours and four minutes. Our vigilance could not be relaxed for even a split second. I bit off the end of the cigar and nervously chewed on it for more than two hours. I could not leave my post for a drink of water, and my throat was parched from the cigar, from fright and from nervousness. My knees wouldn't stay still. I knew that we could not let him escape this time. We would never have another opportunity like this."

It may have been Purvis's own nervousness, and his continuous checking with the ticket booth lady, that caused her to summon the theatre manager who, in turn, called the police. When they arrived, one of the agents told them they were on a stakeout and that they should remove their squad car from the vicinity immediately, a request they complied with, according to Purvis.

It is interesting to note that in all of the biographies of Dillinger they include the fact that the Chicago police showed up and were quickly instructed to leave. However, in the Chicago Daily Tribune's first report of the shooting the following is revealed:

".(the agents) actions seemed, to the theatre manager and to the observers in the neighborhood, to be so suspicious that the Sheffield Avenue police were notified. Policemen Frank Slattery, Edward Meisterheim and Michael Garrity, who investigated, were shown federal badges by the watchers."

Further into the article, under the sub-headline, "Narrow Escape for Policemen," we get an interesting contradiction:

"Policemen Slattery and Meisterheim, who were in civilian clothing, were near the scene of the shooting when it occurred. According to Slattery, one of the agents told him after it was over that he was among the luckiest of men.

"When we got the signal you were close to Dillinger," said the agent. "You looked like Dillinger and I was about to shoot you when the other fellows let loose and killed the right man.'"

If this is true, and it was reported the night of the shooting, not at some later date when it could be made up, then it destroys the myth that no Chicago policemen were at the scene. It also indicates that there was no attempt on the part of the FBI to capture Dillinger by any means other than to shoot him.

Just after the squad car was ordered away from the area the theatre began to let out. Purvis strained his eyes desperately looking for one man as the patrons exited. He soon spotted Dillinger between the two women. "He looked into my eyes; surely he must have seen something more than casual interest in them, but apparently he didn't recognize me, and I struck the match and lit my cigar," Purvis recalled.

Purvis recalls that as he gave a signal to close in, the officers were slow to react and his heart began to pound, but then Dillinger was surrounded. He states, "I was about three feet to the left and a little to the rear of him. I was very nervous; it must have been a squeaky voice that called out, 'Stick 'em up, Johnnie, we have you surrounded.'" Purvis recalls that he ripped every button off his jacket drawing his own weapon, which he didn't get a chance to fire.

Dillinger began to take off, allegedly reaching into his pants pocket to draw a weapon. Lawmen with drawn guns were on top of him and fired. He dropped halfway into an alley. He was turned over, but he couldn't speak, he was dead. Purvis describes the scene:

"Probably I will never forget, although I would like to, the morbidness displayed by the people who gathered around the shooting. Craning necks of curious persons, women dipping handkerchiefs in Dillinger's blood. Neighborhood business boomed temporarily. The spot where Dillinger fell became the mecca of morbidly curious."

Purvis says that he had a spot of Dillinger's blood on his pants cuff and a few days later was offered $50 for the trousers.

At 10:40 on the night of Sunday, July 22, 1934 John Dillinger lay dead in an alley outside the Biograph Theatre. Law enforcement officers fired at Dillinger from the front and the back. From the rear, two bullets slightly grazed his face next to the left eye. A third, the fatal shot, entered the base of his neck, traveled upward until it hit the second vertebra, then exited below and to the outside of his right eye. A fourth bullet, fired from the front, entered his left clavicle and exited his left side. All four wounds, as well as the wounds suffered by two bystanders, were all consistent in proving that Dillinger was on the ground when fired at.

The body was taken to Alexian Brothers Hospital and laid on the lawn until the deputy coroner arrived. Officially declared dead, the body was removed to the Cook County Morgue. When the body arrived at the morgue it was already stripped. A large ring, photographed while the body lay on the floor of the police wagon that picked up Dillinger, was now missing and never accounted for. Approximately $7.70 was found on the body. Arthur O'Leary claimed Dillinger "carried thousands of dollars about his person." One rumor had Zarkovich searching the body in the alley and removing the money from his pocket. Another claimed the East Chicago police removed it on the trip to the morgue, however, Purvis claims that only FBI agents accompanied the body.

A pocket watch was also found with a young lady's picture in it. At first the woman was believed to be Mary Longnaker, Dillinger's girlfriend from Dayton . The next guess was that it was Billie Frechette. The newspapers identified it as Polly Hamilton. How Dillinger came into the possession of the old watch was never revealed.

At the morgue, the post-mortem room was jammed with doctors, nurses, interns, law enforcement officials, newsmen - and the morbid curious, many of whom "talked, bluffed or bought their way in." Meanwhile hundreds of spectators waited outside until the wee hours of the morning, some pressing their faces to the wire mesh protected windows in hopes of catching a glimpse of the slain outlaw.

One reporter wrote, "Dillinger lay in a basement room. None of the dignity of death was his. A winding sheet draped his bullet-torn body like a travesty of a Roman toga. The whole place was soaked in a penetrating, persistent odor of formaldehyde."

George Russell Girardin describes the morgue as follows:

"At the morgue hordes of the curious began arriving that night, and all day Monday the procession continued - thousands upon thousands of them - until the doors of this house of the dead were finally closed at midnight. The ghoulish parade included prosperous professional and business men, society matrons,  politicians, police officials, housewives, meek-mannered clerks, painted and perfumed nightclub "cuties," idlers of the streets, giggling high-school girls - all seeking a vicarious thrill. There on the cold slab of the morgue lay the outlaw's body, partly covered with a sheet, his face torn with wounds. They passed before him - the men gaping with open mouths, the women shuddering and covering their eyes, or emitting short hysterical screams."

When the federal agents were late in arriving for the coroner's inquest on Monday it gave photographers time to take more pictures of Coroner Frank Walsh posing with the corpse. At the inquest Sam Cowley handled the questions; Purvis did not attend. The gun that Dillinger was alleged to have pulled was not presented into evidence. Anna Sage's name and role had not yet been revealed.

An estimated 15,000 people shuffled past the body of the dead bank robber before the corpse could be taken to the McCready Funeral Home. On Tuesday morning the body was carried to a hearse that had arrived the previous day from Mooresville bringing Dillinger's father and half brother. Chicago police gave the hearse an escort to the Indiana border. At the Harvey Funeral Home in Mooresville, Audrey Dillinger Hancock was not convinced the body was that of her infamous brother. After allegedly reviewing a scar on the back of the corpse's thigh, Audrey conceded, "It's all right. That's Johnnie."

On Tuesday night the body was taken to the Hancock's home in Maywood , Indiana . The casket was carried into the living room. Crowds filled the neighborhood the following day and Audrey agreed to open her home and let the public view the body for about an hour. The local police convinced the Dillinger family to hold the funeral that day, Wednesday, July 25, instead of Thursday as planned, in order to alleviate the crowds that had gathered in the besieged neighborhood.

John Dillinger was laid to rest in Crown Hill Cemetery just outside Indianapolis . The cemetery was also the final resting-place for President Benjamin Harrison. A severe thunderstorm poured down on the mourners that afternoon. Two ministers conducted a brief service before the coffin was lowered into the grave. When the mourners left, a police guard stayed behind to prevent ghouls from unearthing the body. Days later the grave was reopened and an elaborate protection of concrete mixed with scrap iron and chicken wire was placed at staggered levels above the coffin.

What had happened to Sage and Hamilton after the shooting? One report said Anna and Polly headed north on Lincoln . At Altgeld Street, Hamilton caught the elevated train to Wilson Avenue and she proceeded to the restaurant she worked at. Once there, she told a friend she would be out sick the following day. Another version has agents leading them down the alley, where Dillinger lay dead. The alley ran behind Sage's apartment.

Sage went home and changed out of the orange skirt that had turned scarlet under the bright lights of the theatre's marquee, thus providing her with the infamous nickname, the "Woman in Red," a name she would come to despise. Surprisingly Sage returned to the Biograph to witness the morbid chaos taking place there as spectators continued to stream into the area. Sage returned home again and, with the help of a girlfriend, removed Dillinger's arsenal, taking it in a taxicab to Lake Michigan and disposing of it.

The police had already identified Polly Hamilton, but were unable to locate her. Sage had still not been identified. She was still the mysterious "woman in red." The FBI was withholding information about her because she was considered a government informant. Officers from the Sheffield Avenue station caught up with Sage on the night of July 24 and took her and her son Steve into custody for questioning. Sage's statements to the police were a complete pack of lies. She denied that Dillinger had roomed at her apartment; she denied that she knew Martin Zarkovich; she denied that she assisted in the capture for consideration in her deportation order; and she claimed that she did not know the man she was with was Dillinger until the moment he was shot. As for Hamilton , Sage told the police she had gone home to Fargo , North Dakota . When she hadn't turned up there the police speculated that she had committed suicide.

Sage's interrogation was cut short when Sam Cowley rushed to the station with other agents and instructed her not to answer any more questions. Soon afterward, both Sage and Hamilton were taken to Detroit to maintain their safety and silence. From there Sage was put on a bus to California . While out there she was paid a visit by Sam Cowley who handed over her portion of the reward money, $5,000. Sage returned to Chicago after the deaths of Homer Van Meter on August 23 by St. Paul police, and "Baby Face" Nelson by the FBI on November 27.

On September 29, 1935 Sage told reporters that Cowley and Purvis had promised to stop the deportation proceedings, but the government was not keeping its part of the bargain. Cowley by this time was dead, killed in the shoot out with Nelson, and Purvis had resigned from the FBI months earlier, some allege because of the government's refusal to help Sage. On October 1, Sage petitioned Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt for a pardon. The governor had Captain Matt Leach question Sage about her role in bringing down Dillinger. Girardin reported the following conversation:

"Has Mrs. Sage revealed any information that might be of value to the state of Indiana in the Dillinger matter?" McNutt inquired.

"She has not." Leach replied. "Whenever I asked her any pertinent questions she merely squirmed around in her chair and refused to answer."

Sage's case was heard in Chicago on October 16 where the court ruled against her. On January 22, 1936 the United States Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court decision. In late April 1936 Anna Sage was sent home to Rumania . When Sage died from a liver ailment on April 25, 1947 the Chicago Daily Tribune reported that she had led the life of a well-to-do citizen in Rumania . In discussing a Rumania newspaper report of her death the Tribune stated:

"Mrs. Cumpanas maintained to the end of her life that United States federal authorities had 'cheated' her out of the $70,000 reward for which, she contended, she had agreed to 'put the finger' on Dillinger, whom she described as a former business associate."

If the "former business associate" part is true it reveals that Sage and Dillinger knew each other well before the Biograph affair, which Jay Robert Nash maintains. However, everyone was at a loss as to the $70,000 that is mentioned.

Polly Hamilton returned to Chicago and worked as a waitress under several aliases. She married again, this time to a salesman, and lived on Chicago 's near north side until her death from cancer on February 19, 1969. She outlived Dillinger's previous girlfriend by one month. Evelyn "Billie" Frechette completed her sentence and for a while traveled with a crime-does-not-pay carnival show. Frechette died on January 13, 1969.

John W. Dillinger, the outlaw's aging father, was part of the traveling carnival with Frechette. In 1935 and 1936, during the tourist season, he worked as a caretaker at Emil Wanatka's Dillinger museum at Little Bohemia. Criticized for taking part in this, the elder Dillinger replied simply that he needed the money to support his family. He died in the early 1940s.

Louis Piquette was acquitted of harboring Dillinger, but instead was found guilty of harboring Van Meter. In addition to a two-year prison term, he was fined $10,000 and disbarred. When he was released from Leavenworth in January 1938, he found work again as a bartender in restaurants and saloons. In January 1951 Piquette received a presidential pardon from Harry S. Truman, despite opposition from J. Edgar Hoover. Piquette applied for reinstatement to practice law. While the matter was still pending in the courts, he suffered a massive heart attack on December 10, 1931 and died two days later at the age of 71.

Arthur O'Leary received a suspended sentence due to his testimony against Piquette in the Van Meter case. He disappeared and was believed to have retired to Dubuque , Iowa where he died around 1970. Dr. Loeser, after completing his prison term, disappeared completely and nothing is known about his demise. As for Dr. Cassidy, he committed suicide at the home of his sister in Chicago on July 30, 1946.

Sergeant Martin Zarkovich was busted in rank for refusing to discuss the Dillinger case with Indiana Governor McNutt. Zarkovich persevered and was eventually promoted to chief of detectives. He later served as chief of the East Chicago Police Department from 1947 to 1952. After his retirement from the police force, he served the city as a probation officer until his death on October 30, 1969 when he was 73.

Matt Leach, the Captain of the Indiana State Police, was fired after Hoover complained to his superiors that Leach had not cooperated with the F.B.I. He spent time writing a book about Dillinger that was never published. While he and his wife were returning from New York after a meeting with a publisher, they were killed in an automobile accident in Pennsylvania .

Melvin Purvis left the FBI in July 1935 after a year of personal confrontation with Hoover . Some speculated that the Justice Department's reneging on Purvis's promise to help Anna Sage had something to do with his leaving. The only excuse Purvis offered was that "his unwelcome notoriety had diminished his value as a crime fighter." It was rumored that Hoover personally sabotaged every effort Purvis made to pursue a position in law enforcement, security or consulting work. Purvis, however, was still an immensely popular figure and headed up the "Melvin Purvis Junior G-Men" club for Post Toasties breakfast cereal, as well as endorsing other products.

In 1936 Purvis wrote American Agent , in which he practically ignored Hoover , his name showing up in a listing of Justice Department heads. The egotistical FBI director responded by writing Persons in Hiding in 1938, where Purvis was totally ignored and credit for his work given to Sam Cowley.

In April 1937 Purvis was engaged to marry Janice Jarrett, a beautiful aspiring actress, once described as the "most photographed girl in the world." Jarrett had announced she was abandoning her movie career to become a housewife. An estimated 3,000 wedding invitations had been sent out, but just days before the blessed event the couple had a "squabble" after Jarrett kept Purvis waiting too long in a hotel lobby. When Jarrett showed up, there was a brief conversation after which Purvis returned to his room packed his bag and left.

Purvis's life outside of law enforcement, much like his contemporary Eliot Ness, was a failure. With his health in decline, on February 29, 1960, he stood in an upstairs hallway in his Florence , South Carolina home and committed suicide with the nickel-plated Colt .45 automatic he had received as a going away gift from fellow agents 25 years earlier.

As with the deaths of many famous and infamous people, there was much controversy following the shooting of Dillinger. In 1970 writers Jay Robert Nash and Ron Offen authored the book, Dillinger: Dead or Alive . The dust jacket claimed "that it was not John Dillinger but his double who was slain in Chicago in 1934." The book was re-printed in 1983 as The Dillinger Dossier . In his books on Dillinger, there is more than a casual collection of evidence to raise legitimate questions about the outlaw's demise.

There is much talk about the plastic surgery that was performed on Dillinger. Did it really change his appearance? Plastic surgery didn't seem to keep some of his contemporaries from being recognized like Van Meter, Alvin Karpis and Freddie Barker. One has to wonder how effective this procedure is even 60 years later. After plastic surgery was performed on Sammy Gravano in the mid-1990s, "the Bull" told an Arizona newspaper reporter that strangers still recognize him on the street. "They come right over to me," Gravano says. "Some shake my hand.Some want an autograph."

One is left to wonder how on July 22, 1934, with his picture in the paper constantly, Dillinger was able to walk down a street filled with hundreds of people, enter a crowded theatre and not be recognized. Documentaries on Dillinger discuss the fact that Purvis was positioned near the theatre entrance because he had met and could recognize Anna Sage. Why was he waiting for Sage? There is reason to believe that Purvis was waiting for Sage because with her would be the lamb, whoever he was, that was being led to the slaughter.

With approximately 20 law enforcement officers outside the theater, none of whom were Chicago police officers, is it unreasonable to assume that maybe they could have tackled this man? Dillinger historian Joseph Pinkston reported that when agents did fire they were so close that powder burns were found on the victim's neck. Nash presents a re-creation of the shooting that concludes the dead man had to have been in a prone position when shot otherwise the only way to explain the wounds suffered by two female bystanders was that an agent was firing from a lamp post.

Of course the FBI would not have shot an unarmed man. Well, let's forget about Eddie Green. We all know Dillinger pulled a gun that night, the FBI told us he did. Agents retrieved the weapon and it has been on display at FBI headquarters in Washington DC . However, Mid-West Crime Wave expert, William J. Helmer reports in Dillinger: The Untold Story , that Nash caused the FBI some "embarrassment" by confirming that the gun in the bureau's showcase had not been manufactured until after Dillinger's death.

There can only be one of three conclusions to what happened outside the Biograph Theatre that steamy hot July night in 1934. First, that the man killed was indeed Dillinger and we are left with many legitimate unanswered questions. Second, that the person was not Dillinger and once the FBI realized their mistake they quickly devised a plot to deceive everyone into believing it was the notorious bank robber. After all, in the wake of the Little Bohemia debacle, the public was crying for both Hoover 's and Purvis's heads. Can anyone imagine the FBI announcing it had just shot down another unarmed, innocent man?

The third conclusion, and this is what Nash alludes to, is that the man shot outside the theater had been set up in an intricate plot which involved the FBI, Anna Sage, Martin Zarkovich and, of course, Louis Piquette. One of the facts that lends credence to this theory, at least in this writer's opinion, is that Sage wanted more than anything else to stay in this country. Why else would she have offered to make a deal with the government? So she could have some spending money in Rumania ?

The government was embarrassed in its efforts to capture Public Enemy #1 and aghast that the public saw Dillinger in the role of a popular, modern day Robin Hood. The FBI had killed and wounded innocent men in their pursuit of this outlaw, not to mention losing one of their own. In view of this, why wouldn't the government trade even up for Dillinger and allow the brothel keeper Sage to stay in America . Were her crimes so heinous or her deportation order more important to the government than the uproar Dillinger was creating? Why was it so important to deport her after the shooting?

Nash cites a number of physical discrepancies between what is known about Dillinger, including his medical and dental history, and the corpse of the man the FBI says was Dillinger. Most persuasive is a close up picture of the corpse's face showing a full set of upper front teeth. Dillinger was missing his right front incisor, which was apparent from photographs and newsreel footage taken at Crown Point .

If Dillinger's body were ever exhumed, with today's DNA technology they could certainly ascertain if the corpse was that of the outlaw. I would be convinced just on the examination of that right front incisor. If that tooth actually belongs to the corpse buried there, how would the demise of John Dillinger and the legend of the FBI be viewed then. With all the death and tragedy this infamous bank robber brought about, wouldn't it be ironic that he alone survived?

Instead of being the greatest bank robber of all time, perhaps John Dillinger was the greatest jinx of all time. Compiled from Dillinger: The Untold Story is a listing of the dead, wounded and imprisoned:

Law enforcement officers and non-gang members killed:

10-12-33    Sheriff Jesse Sarber in Lima , Ohio , killed by Pierpont

12-14-33    Chicago Police Sergeant William T. Shanley, killed by John Hamilton

12-20-33     Indiana State Trooper Eugene Teague, accidentally killed in Paris , Illinois during the apprehension of Edward Shouse

12-21-33    Louis, Katzewitz, Charles Tattlebaum and Sam Ginsburg, three Jewish criminals mistaken for the Dillinger Gang and killed by Chicago police

01-15-34    East Chicago Police Officer William Patrick O'Malley, killed by Dillinger

03-16-34    Undersheriff Charles Cavanaugh, killed in Port Huron , Michigan by Herbert Youngblood

04-22-34    Eugene Boiseneau, a CCC worker killed by FBI at Little Bohemia

04-22-34    Federal Agent W. Carter Baum, killed by "Baby  Face" Nelson at Little Bohemia

05-24-34    East Chicago Detectives Martin O'Brien and Lloyd Mulvihill, allegedly murdered by Van Meter

06-30-34    South Bend Police Officer Howard Wagner, killed by Van Meter

11-27-34    FBI Agents Samuel P. Cowley and Herman E. Hollis in Barrington , Illinois , killed by "Baby Face" Nelson

Dillinger/Pierpont Gang members killed:

09-30-33    Joseph Jenkins killed by posse hunting escaped convicts from Michigan City prison break

03-16-34    Herbert Youngblood, killed by police at Port Huron , Michigan

04-11-34    Eddie Green, died after being shot by FBI agents in St. Paul on April 3

04-27-34    John Hamilton, died after being shot by St. Paul Park police on April 23

06-07-34    Tommy Carroll, killed by police in Waterloo , Iowa

07-22-34    John Dillinger, killed by FBI and East Chicago police

07-26-34    James J. Probasco, killed after fall from FBI headquarters in Banker's Building

08-23-34    Homer Van Meter, killed by police in St. Paul

09-22-34    Charles Makley, killed by prison guards while trying to escape Ohio State Penitentiary

10-17-34    Harry Pierpont, electrocuted at the Ohio State Penitentiary

11-27-34    "Baby Face' Nelson died from wounds by FBI agents in Barrington , Illinois

All text that appears in this section was provided by crimelibrary.com (the very best source for serial killer information on the internet). Our entire staff thanks the crime library for their tireless efforts in recording our dark past and commends them on the amazing job they have done thus far). If you have not yet visited Crime Library, you should do so soon.

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Rare 1993 Parole Hearing of Manson Family Member Susan Atkins
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1993 PAROLE HEARING OF MANSON FAMILY MEMBER SUSAN ATKINS

This DVD includes the very rare 1993 parole hearing of Manson Family killer, SUSAN ATKINS. This is truly a collectors item for any one interested in true crime.

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Rare 2000 Parole Hearing of Manson Family Member Susan Atkins
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2000 PAROLE HEARING OF MANSON FAMILY MEMBER SUSAN ATKINS

This DVD includes the very rare year 2000 parole hearing of Manson Family killer, SUSAN ATKINS. This is truly a collectors item for any one interested in true crime.

PRICE : $10

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Charles Manson in Charge 1
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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME ONE

THIS DVD INCLUDES HOURS OF RARE AND LOST FOOTAGE FROM THE MANSON FAMILY. ON THIS DVD YOU WILL FIND AN AMAZING MIX OF RAW FOOTAGE, HOME VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, PAROLE HEARINGS AND MUCH MUCH MORE!

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Charles Manson in Charge 2
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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME TWO

THIS DVD INCLUDES HOURS OF RARE AND LOST FOOTAGE FROM THE MANSON FAMILY. ON THIS DVD YOU WILL FIND AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS WITH THE BIG BAD WOLF OF AMERICAN CRIME, CHARLES MANSON.

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Charles Manson in Charge 3
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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME THREE

THIS DVD INCLUDES HOURS OF RARE AND LOST FOOTAGE FROM THE MANSON FAMILY. ON THIS DVD YOU WILL FIND AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS WITH THE BIG BAD WOLF OF AMERICAN CRIME, CHARLES MANSON.

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Charles Manson White Rabbit on DVD
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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME FOUR

Starts off with a Hardcore copy exclusive with a pirated video from his jail cell and a segment on women who write him love letters, Some Christian Show with Tex Waston's born again wife and a long discussion about their marriage in prison, Another Christian show called "Pardoned From Above" also about Tex Watson's marriage and possible parole, Another Hardcopy Clip. Runs about 2 hours

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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME FIVE

The first hour is Manson on Geraldo (The broadcast version, not the uncut version sold on this site),  Then it has Maury Povich on a current affair talking about Manson, A clip of one of the Manson family talking collage classes in jail, Squeaky escaping prison, then a bunch of misc clips, runs about 2 hours

PRICE : $10

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Charles Manson White Rabbit on DVD
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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME SIX

More random Charles Manson clips mostly from 1992. Runs about 2 hours

PRICE : $10

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Charles Manson White Rabbit on DVD
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CHARLES (MANSON) IN CHARGE DVD VOLUME SEVEN

More Charles Manson clips from our massive collection.

PRICE : $10

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Charles Manson White Rabbit on DVD
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WHITE RABBIT (RARE INTERROGATION OF MANSON FAMILY CONFIDANT) ON DVD

PRICE : $10

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