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American bank robber

John Dillinger
Built-in	John Herbert Dillinger (1903-06-22)June 22, 1903 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died	July 22, 1934(1934-07-22) (aged 31) Chicago, Illinois, U.Southward.
Crusade of death	Gunshot wounds
Criminal accuse(south)	Bank robbery, murder, assault, assault of an officer, g theft car
Criminal penalty	Imprisonment from 1924 to 1933
Spouse(s)	Beryl Hovious (divorced) Evelyn Frechette (common police force relationship)

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster during the Great Low. He led a group known as the "Dillinger Gang", which was accused of robbing 24 banks and iv police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but escaped twice. He was charged, but non convicted, of the murder of an E Chicago, Indiana, police force officer who shot Dillinger in his bullet-proof belong during a shootout; information technology was the just time Dillinger was charged with homicide.

Dillinger courted publicity. The media ran exaggerated accounts of his blowing and colorful personality and cast him every bit a Robin Hood.^{[ane] [2] [3]} In response, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Agency of Investigation (BOI), used Dillinger as a campaign platform to evolve the BOI into the Federal Bureau of Investigation, developing more sophisticated investigative techniques as weapons confronting organized criminal offence.^[one]

Subsequently evading police in iv states for nigh a year, Dillinger was wounded and went to his father's home to recover. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and sought refuge in a brothel owned by Ana Cumpănaș and informed authorities of his whereabouts. On July 22, 1934, local and federal law enforcement closed in on the Biograph Theater.^[4] As BOI agents moved to arrest Dillinger equally he exited the theater, he attempted to flee. He was shot in the back and killed; later ruled every bit justifiable homicide.^{[5] [6]}

Early life [edit]

Family and groundwork [edit]

John Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, at 2053 Cooper Street, Indianapolis, Indiana,^[7] the youngest of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger (1864–1943) and Mary Ellen "Mollie" Lancaster (1870–1907).^{[eight] : ten}

John Dillinger's parents had married on August 23, 1887. Dillinger's father was a grocer past trade and, reportedly, a harsh man.^{[viii] : nine} In an interview with reporters, Dillinger said that he was business firm in his subject area and believed in the adage "spare the rod and spoil the child".^{[8] : 12} Dillinger's older sister, Audrey, was born in 1889 and the mother died in 1907 but before his 4th birthday.^{[8] [nine]} Audrey married Emmett "Fred" Hancock that year and had seven children. She cared for her blood brother John for several years until their male parent remarried in 1912 to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fields (1878–1933). They had iii children.^{[nine] [x]}

Formative years and marriage [edit]

Every bit a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble for fighting and petty theft; he was also noted for his "bewildering personality" and bullying of smaller children.^{[8] : fourteen} He quit school to piece of work in an Indianapolis motorcar shop. His male parent feared that the urban center was corrupting his son, prompting him to move the family to Mooresville, Indiana, in 1921.^{[viii] : 15} Dillinger'due south wild and rebellious behavior was unchanged, despite his new rural life. In 1922, he was arrested for motorcar theft, and his relationship with his father deteriorated.^{[8] : sixteen–17}

In 1923, Dillinger's troubles led to him enlisting in the United states of america Navy, where he was a Petty officer third class Mechanism Repairman assigned aboard the battleship USSUtah,^[xi] but he deserted a few months later when his send was docked in Boston. He was eventually dishonorably discharged some months subsequently.^{[eight] : eighteen–xx}

Dillinger returned to Mooresville where he met Beryl Ethel Hovious.^[12] The two married on April 12, 1924. He attempted to settle down, but he had difficulty.^[1] Unable to discover a task, he began planning a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton,^{[8] : 22} who was an ex-convict.^[thirteen] The ii robbed a local grocery shop, stealing $50.^{[eight] : 26} While leaving the scene, the criminals were spotted by a minister who recognized the men and reported them to the police force. During the robbery, Dillinger had struck a victim on the caput with a machine bolt wrapped in a cloth and had too carried a gun which, although it discharged, hit no one. The two men were arrested the next twenty-four hours. Singleton pleaded not guilty, just after Dillinger's father (the local Mooresville Church deacon) discussed the affair with Morgan County prosecutor Omar O'Harrow, his father convinced Dillinger to confess to the crime and plead guilty without retaining a defense force attorney.^{[8] : 24}

Dillinger was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony. He expected a lenient probation sentence equally a issue of his father'south discussion with O'Harrow only instead was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison house for his crimes.^[9] His begetter told reporters he regretted his advice and was appalled past the sentence. He pleaded with the gauge to shorten the sentence, but with no success.^{[8] : 25} En route to Mooresville to testify against Singleton, Dillinger briefly escaped his captors only was apprehended within a few minutes.^{[8] : 27} Singleton had a alter of venue and was sentenced to a jail term of 2 to 14 years. He died September 2, 1937, from fatal gunshot wounds. ^[14]

Prison house fourth dimension [edit]

Incarcerated at Indiana Reformatory and Indiana State Prison house from 1924 to 1933, Dillinger began to become embroiled in a criminal lifestyle. Upon being admitted to prison, he was quoted as proverb, "I will exist the meanest bastard yous always saw when I go out of here."^{[8] : 26} His physical examination at the prison showed that he had gonorrhea, and the treatment for the condition was extremely painful.^{[viii] : 22} He became embittered against gild because of his long prison house sentence and befriended other criminals, including seasoned bank robbers Harry "Pete" Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, and Homer Van Meter, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal. The men planned heists that they would commit soon after they were released.^{[eight] : 32} Dillinger also studied Herman Lamm's meticulous banking concern-robbing arrangement and used it extensively throughout his criminal career.^[15]

Dillinger'due south begetter launched a campaign to accept him released and was able to obtain 188 signatures on a petition. On May ten, 1933, after serving nine and a half years, Dillinger was paroled.^{[eight] : 37} Released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger with little prospect of finding employment.^{[viii] : 35} immediately returned to crime.^{[8] : 39}

On June 21, 1933, he robbed his first bank stealing $ten,000 from the New Carlisle National Bank.^[16] On August xiv, Dillinger robbed a bank in Bluffton, Ohio. Tracked by police from Dayton, Ohio, he was captured and subsequently transferred to the Allen County Jail in Lima to exist indicted in connection to the Bluffton robbery. After searching him before putting him into the prison, the law discovered a document which appeared to be a prison escape plan. They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, just he refused.^[9]

Earlier, while in prison, Dillinger had helped conceive a plan to enable the escape of Pete Pierpont, Russell Clark, and half dozen others he had met while in prison, about of whom worked in the prison house laundry. Dillinger had friends smuggle guns into their cells which they used to escape iv days after Dillinger's capture. The grouping that formed up, known as "the Get-go Dillinger Gang," consisted of Pierpont, Clark, Charles Makley, Ed Shouse, Harry Copeland, and John "Red" Hamilton, a member of the Herman Lamm Gang. Pierpont, Clark, and Makley arrived in Lima on October 12, 1933, where they impersonated Indiana State Law officers, claiming they had come to extradite Dillinger to Indiana. When the sheriff, Jess Sarber, asked for their credentials, Pierpont shot Sarber dead, then released Dillinger from his cell. The four men escaped back to Indiana, where they joined the rest of the gang.^[nine]

Bank robberies [edit]

Dillinger is known to have participated with the Dillinger Gang in 12 split up bank robberies, between June 21, 1933, and June 30, 1934.^[17]

Evelyn Frechette [edit]

Evelyn "Billie" Frechette met John Dillinger in October 1933, and they began a relationship in November 1933. Afterward Dillinger'south expiry, Billie was offered money for her story and wrote a memoir for the Chicago Herald and Examiner in August 1934.^[18]

Escape from Crown Betoken, Indiana [edit]

Display of newspaper clippings of the capture of John Dillinger and his gang in the old lobby of the Congress Hotel.

The John Dillinger House in Tucson, Arizona

On January 25, 1934, Dillinger and his gang were captured in Tucson, Arizona.^{[19] [xx]} He was extradited to Indiana and escorted back past Matt Leach,^[21] the Main of the Indiana State Police. Dillinger was taken to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana and imprisoned to confront charges for the murder of a policeman who was killed during a Dillinger gang banking company robbery in Due east Chicago, Indiana, on Jan fifteen, 1934. The local police boasted to area newspapers that the jail was escape-proof and had posted actress guards as a precaution. However,on Saturday, March 3, 1934, Dillinger was able to escape during morning exercises with 15 other immates, Dillinger produced a pistol, communicable deputies and guards by surprise, and he was able to leave the premises without firing a shot. Virtually immediately afterward conjecture began whether the gun Dillinger displayed was real or not. According to Deputy Ernest Blunk, Dillinger had escaped using a real pistol. FBI files, on the other hand, betoken that Dillinger used a carved fake pistol. Sam Cahoon, a trustee who Dillinger took hostage in the jail, also believed Dillinger had carved the gun, using a razor and some shelving in his cell. In another version, according to an unpublished interview with Dillinger'due south attorney, Louis Piquett, investigator Fine art O'Leary claimed to accept sneaked the gun in himself.^[22]

On March 16, Herbert Youngblood, who escaped from Crown Bespeak aslope Dillinger, was shot dead by police in Port Huron, Michigan. Deputy Sheriff Charles Cavanaugh was mortally wounded in the battle and later died. Before he died, Youngblood told officers Dillinger was in the neighborhood of Port Huron, and immediately officers began a search for the escaped man, only no trace of him was constitute. An Indiana newspaper reported that Youngblood later retracted the story and said he did non know where Dillinger was at that time, as he had parted with him soon after their escape.^[23]

Dillinger was indicted by a grand jury, and the Agency of Investigation (a precursor of the Federal Agency of Investigation)^[4] organized a nationwide manhunt for him.^[24] Just hours later on his escape from the Crown Signal jail, Dillinger reunited with his girlfriend, Evelyn "Billie" Frechette.^{[ citation needed ]}

According to Frechette'due south trial testimony, Dillinger stayed with her for "almost two weeks." However, the two had actually traveled to the Twin Cities and taken lodgings at the Santa Monica Apartments Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they stayed for 15 days.^{[25] [26]} Dillinger then met upwardly with John "Ruby" Hamilton and the 2 mustered a new gang consisting of Baby Face Nelson's gang, including Nelson, Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Eddie Dark-green.

Iii days after Dillinger'due south escape from Crown Point, the 2d Gang robbed a bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A week later they robbed Offset National Depository financial institution in Mason City, Iowa.^[27]

Lincoln Court Apartments shootout [edit]

The Setting [edit]

On Tuesday, March xx, 1934, Dillinger and Frechette moved into the Lincoln Court Apartments in St. Paul, Minnesota, using the aliases "Mr. & Mrs. Carl T. Hellman." The 3-story apartment complex^{[28] [29] [xxx]}

Daisy Coffey, the landlord testified at Frechette's trial she spent well-nigh evenings during Dillinger'southward stay observing what was happening. On March 30, Coffey went to the FBI's St. Paul field office to file a report, including information well-nigh the couple's new Hudson sedan parked in the garage behind the apartments.

Surveillance [edit]

Equally a consequence of Coffey'south tip, the building was placed under surveillance past two agents, Rufus Coulter and Rusty Nalls, that night, but they saw nothing unusual, mainly considering the blinds were drawn.^[31] The next morning time at approximately 10:fifteen a.chiliad., Nalls circled around the block looking for the Hudson, but observed nothing. He parked, commencement on Lincoln Artery (the north side of the apartments), then on the west side of Lexington Artery, at the northwest corner of Lexington and Lincoln, and remained in his car while watching Coulter and St. Paul Police detective Henry Cummings, pull up, park, and enter the building.^[32] Ten minutes later, by Nalls's estimate, Van Meter parked a greenish Ford coupe on the north side of the flat building.^[33]

The Shootout [edit]

Meanwhile, Coulter and Cummings knocked on the door of apartment 303. Frechette answered, opening the door two to three inches. She said she was not dressed and to come back. Coulter told her they would await. After waiting 2 to three minutes, Coulter went to the basement apartment of the caretakers, Louis and Margaret Meidlinger, and asked to utilize the telephone to call the bureau. He quickly returned to Cummings, and the two of them waited for Frechette to open up the door. Van Meter then appeared in the hall and asked Coulter if his name was Johnson. Coulter said it was not, and as Van Meter passed on to the landing of the third floor, Coulter asked him for a proper name. Van Meter replied, "I am a soap salesman." Asked where his samples were, Van Meter said they were in his automobile. Coulter asked if he had any credentials. Van Meter said "no", and connected downwardly the stairs. Coulter waited x to twenty seconds, then followed Van Meter. Every bit Coulter got to the lobby on the ground floor, Van Meter opened fire on him.^[34] Coulter hastily fled outside, chased by Van Meter. Van Meter ran back into the front entrance.

Recognizing Van Meter, Nalls pointed out the Ford to Coulter and told him to disable it. Coulter shot out the rear left tire. While Coulter stayed with Van Meter'south Ford, Nalls went to the corner drugstore and chosen the local police, then the agency's St. Paul office, but could not go through considering both lines were busy.^{[35] [36]} Van Meter, meanwhile, escaped past hopping on a passing coal truck.^[37]

Frechette, in her harboring trial testimony, said that she told Dillinger that the police had shown up after speaking to Cummings. Upon hearing Van Meter firing at Coulter, Dillinger opened fire through the door with a Thompson submachine gun, sending Cummings scrambling for cover. Dillinger and then stepped out and fired another flare-up at Cummings. Cummings shot back with a revolver, only quickly ran out of armament. He hit Dillinger in the left calf with one of his five shots. He and so hastily retreated downwards the stairs to the front entrance.^[38] In one case Cummings retreated, Dillinger and Frechette hurried down the stairs, exited through the back door and drove away in the Hudson.^{[ citation needed ]}

Aftermath [edit]

After the shootout, Dillinger and Frechette collection to Eddie Dark-green'southward apartment in Minneapolis. Dark-green called his acquaintance Dr. Clayton Eastward. May at his office at 712 Masonic Temple in downtown Minneapolis (still extant). With Greenish, his wife Beth, and Frechette following in Green'due south car, the doctor collection Dillinger to an apartment belonging to Augusta Table salt, who had been providing nursing services and a bed for May's illicit patients for several years, patients he could non adventure seeing at his regular office. May treated Dillinger'south wound with antiseptics. Green visited Dillinger on Mon, April 2, only hours before Dark-green was mortally wounded by the FBI in St. Paul. Dillinger convalesced at Dr. May's for five days, until Wednesday, April four. Dr. May was promised $500 for his services, but received goose egg.^{[39] [40]}

Return to Mooresville [edit]

After the events in Minneapolis, Dillinger and Frechette traveled to Mooresville to visit Dillinger'due south father. Friday, April 6, 1934, was spent contacting family members, particularly his one-half-blood brother Hubert Dillinger. On April 6, Hubert and Dillinger left Mooresville at about 8:00 p.thou. and proceeded to Leipsic, Ohio (approximately 210 miles away), to come across Joseph and Lena Pierpont, parents of Prohibition Era gangster, Harry Pierpont. The Pierponts were not home, then the two headed back to Mooresville around midnight.^[41]

On April 7 at approximately 3:xxx a.m., they rammed a automobile driven by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Manning near Noblesville, Indiana, afterwards Hubert fell asleep behind the cycle. They crashed through a subcontract fence and most 200 feet into the woods. Both men made information technology dorsum to the Mooresville subcontract. Swarms of police showed upward at the accident scene inside hours. Institute in the motorcar were maps, a machine gun magazine, a length of rope, and a bullwhip. According to Hubert, his brother planned to pay a visit with the bullwhip to his quondam one-armed "shyster" lawyer at Crown Point, Joseph Ryan, who had run off with his servant afterwards beingness replaced by Louis Piquett. At about 10:xxx a.m. on April 7, Billie, Hubert and Hubert's wife purchased a black four-door Ford V8, registering it in the name of Mrs. Fred Penfield (Billie Frechette). At 2:30 p.m., Billie and Hubert picked upwardly the V8 and returned to Mooresville.^{[ citation needed ]}

On Sunday, Apr eight, the Dillingers enjoyed a family picnic while the FBI had the farm nether surveillance nearby.^[41] Later in the afternoon, suspecting they were being watched (agents J. L. Geraghty and T. J. Donegan were cruising in the vicinity in their car), the group left in split cars. Billie drove the new Ford V8, with two of Dillinger's nieces, Mary Hancock in the forepart seat and Alberta Hancock in the back. Dillinger was on the floor of the auto. He was later seen, but not recognized, past Donegan and Geraghty. Somewhen, Norman, driving the V8, proceeded with Dillinger and Billie to Chicago, where they separated from Norman.^[41]

The following afternoon, Monday, April 9, Dillinger had an appointment at a tavern at 416 North State Street. Sensing trouble, Billie went in beginning. She was promptly arrested by agents, but refused to reveal Dillinger's whereabouts. Dillinger was waiting in his car exterior the tavern and so drove off unnoticed.^[42] The two never saw each other once more.^{[ citation needed ]}

Dillinger reportedly became despondent after Billie was arrested. The other gang members tried to talk him out of rescuing her, but Van Meter encouraged him past saying that he knew where they could notice bulletproof vests. That Friday morn, belatedly at night, Dillinger and Van Meter took a hostage, Warsaw, Indiana police officer Judd Pittenger. They marched Pittenger at gunpoint into the police station, where they stole several more guns and bulletproof vests. Afterwards separating, Dillinger picked upwardly Hamilton, who was recovering from the Mason Urban center robbery. The 2 then traveled to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where they visited Hamilton'due south sister Anna Steve.^{[ citation needed ]}

Escape at Trivial Bohemia [edit]

The Bureau received a call Dominicus morning, Apr 22 that John Dillinger and several of his confederates were hiding out at a small vacation lodge called Little Bohemia most present-day Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.

Special Agent in Accuse Melvin Purvis and several BOI agents approached the guild when three men exited the building and began to drive off. Agents yelled for the automobile to stop and did non hear the agents. Agents opened up burn down and the driver was killed.

Dillinger and some of the gang were upstairs in the lodge and began shooting out the windows. While the BOI agents ducked for cover, Dillinger and his men got out the back and fled.^[43]

Hiding in Chicago [edit]

Past July 1934, Dillinger had dropped completely out of sight, and the federal agents had no solid leads to follow. He had, in fact, drifted into Chicago where he went under the allonym of Jimmy Lawrence, a petty criminal from Wisconsin who bore a close resemblance to Dillinger. Working as a clerk, Dillinger found that, in a large metropolis like Chicago, he was able to lead an bearding being for a while. What he did not realize was that the heart of the federal agents' dragnet happened to be Chicago. When the authorities establish Dillinger'southward claret-spattered getaway car on a Chicago side street, they were positive that he was in the urban center.^[9]

Plastic surgery [edit]

Co-ordinate to Fine art O'Leary, as early as March 1934, Dillinger expressed an involvement in plastic surgery and had asked O'Leary to bank check with Piquett on such matters. At the end of April, Piquett paid a visit to his former friend Dr. Wilhelm Loeser. Loeser had practiced in Chicago for 27 years earlier being convicted under the Harrison Narcotic Act in 1931. He was sentenced to three years at Leavenworth, just was paroled early on on December 7, 1932, with Piquett'southward help.^{[ citation needed ]} He afterward testified that he performed facial surgery on himself and obliterated the fingerprint impressions on the tips of his fingers past the application of a caustic soda preparation. Piquett said Dillinger would have to pay $5,000 for the plastic surgery: $four,400 split betwixt Piquett, Loeser and O'Leary, and $600 to Dr. Harold Cassidy, who would administer the anaesthetic. The process would take identify at the home of Piquett's longtime friend, 67-twelvemonth-old James Probasco, at the cease of May.^{[ citation needed ]}

On May 28, Loeser was picked up at his home at 7:30 p.1000. past O'Leary and Cassidy. The three of them and then drove to Probasco'due south place. Dillinger chose to accept a general anaesthetic. Loeser later testified:

I asked him what work he wanted done. He wanted two warts (moles) removed on the right lower forehead betwixt the eyes and one at the left angle, outer angle of the left eye; wanted a depression of the olfactory organ filled in; a scar; a big one to the left of the median line of the upper lip excised, wanted his dimples removed and wanted the angle of the mouth drawn up. He didn't say anything virtually the fingers that day to me.^[44]

Cassidy administered an overdose of ether, which caused Dillinger to suffocate. He began to plough blue and stopped breathing. Loeser pulled Dillinger'southward tongue out of his oral fissure with a pair of forceps, and at the same time forcing both elbows into his ribs. Dillinger gasped and resumed breathing. The procedure continued with only a local anaesthetic. Loeser removed several moles on Dillinger's forehead, fabricated an incision in his nose and an incision in his chin and tied back both cheeks.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Loeser met with Piquett again on Saturday, June 2, with Piquett maxim that more work was needed on Dillinger and that Van Meter at present wanted the same work done to him. Also, both at present wanted piece of work done on their fingertips. The price for the fingerprint procedure would be $500 per manus or $100 a finger. Loeser used a mixture of nitric and muriatic acid—ordinarily known as aqua regia.^{[45] [ page needed ]}

Loeser met O'Leary the following night at Clark and Wright at viii:30, and they over again drove to Probasco's. Present this evening were Dillinger, Van Meter, Probasco, Piquett, Cassidy, and Peggy Doyle, Probasco'southward girlfriend. Loeser testified that he worked for just about 30 minutes earlier O'Leary and Piquett had left.

Loeser testified:

Cassidy and I worked on Dillinger and Van Meter simultaneously on June 3. While the work was being done, Dillinger and Van Meter changed off. The work that could be done while the patient was sitting upward, that patient was in the sitting-room. The work that had to be washed while the man was lying down, that patient was on the couch in the bedchamber. They were changed back and forth according to the work to be done. The hands were sterilized, made aseptic with antiseptics, thoroughly washed with soap and water and used sterile gauze after to go on them make clean. Side by side, cutting instrument, knife was used to expose the lower skin ... in other words, take off the epidermis and betrayal the derma, then alternately the acid and the alkaloid was applied as was necessary to produce the desired results.^[46]

Minor piece of work was done ii nights later, Tuesday, June 5. Loeser made some small corrections offset on Van Meter, then Dillinger. Loeser stated:

A man came in before I left, who I found out afterward was Infant Face Nelson. He came in with a pulsate of machine gun bullets under his arm, threw them on the bed or the burrow in the bedroom, and started to talk to Van Meter. The two then motioned for Dillinger to come up over and the 3 went back into the kitchen.

Peggy Doyle later told agents:

Dillinger and Van Meter resided at Probasco's home until the last week of June 1934; that on some occasions they would exist away for a day or two, sometimes leaving separately, and on other occasions together; that at this time Van Meter usually parked his car in the rear of Probasco'south residence outside the dorsum argue; that she gathered that Dillinger was keeping company with a young woman who lived on the north side of Chicago, inasmuch as he would state upon leaving Probasco'due south home that he was going in the direction of Diversey Boulevard; that Van Meter apparently was not acquainted with Dillinger's friend, and she heard him alert Dillinger to exist careful nigh hit upward acquaintances with girls he knew nothing about; that Dillinger and Van Meter commonly kept a machine gun in an open case under the piano in the parlor; that they likewise kept a shotgun nether the parlor table.^[47]

O'Leary stated that Dillinger expressed dissatisfaction with the facial work that Loeser had performed on him. O'Leary said that, on another occasion, "that Probasco told him, 'the son of a bowwow has gone out for one of his walks'; that he did non know when he would return; that Probasco raved about the craziness of Dillinger, stating that he was always going for walks and was likely to cause the authorities to locate the place where he was staying; that Probasco stated frankly on this occasion that he was afraid to take the man around."^{[ commendation needed ]}

Agents arrested Loeser at 1127 South Harvey, Oak Park, Illinois, on Tuesday, July 24. O'Leary returned from a family fishing trip on July 24, the day of Loeser'southward arrest, and had read in the newspapers that the Department of Justice was looking for two doctors and another homo in connection with some plastic piece of work that was done on Dillinger. O'Leary left Chicago immediately, but returned two weeks afterwards, learned that Loeser and others had been arrested, phoned Piquett, who assured him everything was all right, then left again. He returned from St. Louis on Baronial 25 and was promptly taken into custody.^[48]

On Friday, July 27, Probasco fell to his death from the 19th floor of the Bankers' Building in Chicago while in custody. On Th, Baronial 23, Homer Van Meter was shot and killed in a dead-end aisle in St. Paul by Tom Dark-brown, former St. Paul Chief of Police, and then-current main Frank Cullen.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Polly Hamilton [edit]

Rita "Polly" Hamilton was a teenage runaway from Fargo, Due north Dakota.^[8] She met Ana Ivanova Akalieva (Ana Cumpănaș; a.k.a. Ana Sage) in Gary, Indiana, and worked periodically every bit a prostitute in Ana'southward brothel until marrying Gary police officer Roy O. Keele in 1929. They divorced in March 1933.^[8]

In the summer of 1934, the at present 26-twelvemonth-old^[1] Hamilton was a waitress in Chicago at the S&Due south Sandwich Shop located at 1209½ Wilson Artery. She had remained friends with Sage and was sharing living space with Sage and Sage's 24-twelvemonth-one-time son, Steve, at 2858 Clark Street.^[8]

Dillinger and Hamilton, a Billie Frechette wait-a-like,^{[1] [8]} met in June 1934 at the Barrel of Fun dark social club located at 4541 Wilson Avenue. Dillinger introduced himself as Jimmy Lawrence and said he was a clerk at the Lath of Merchandise. They dated until Dillinger's death at the Biograph Theater in July 1934.^{[1] [8]}

Betrayal [edit]

Division of Investigations primary J. Edgar Hoover created a special task force headquartered in Chicago to locate Dillinger. On July 21, Ana Cumpănaș, a madam from a brothel in Gary, Indiana, too known equally "The Woman in Crimson" contacted the FBI. She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for "low moral character"^[49] and offered agents data on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation. The FBI agreed to her terms, only she was later deported notwithstanding. Cumpănaș revealed that Dillinger was spending his fourth dimension with some other prostitute, Polly Hamilton, and that she and the couple were going to see a film together on the following solar day. She agreed to wear an orangish apparel,^[l] and then law could hands place her. She was unsure which of two theaters they would attend, the Biograph or the Marbro.^[9]

On December fifteen, 1934, pardons were issued past Indiana Governor Harry G. Leslie for the offenses of which Ana Cumpănaș was convicted.^[51]

Cumpănaș stated that on Sunday afternoon, July 22, Dillinger asked her whether she wanted to go to the show with them (Polly and him).

She asked him what prove was he going to see, and he said he would 'like to encounter the theater around the corner,' meaning the Biograph Theater. She stated she was unable to leave the business firm to inform Purvis or Martin about Dillinger's plans to nourish the Biograph, but as they were going to have fried chicken for the evening meal, she told Polly she had nix in which to fry the craven and was going to the store to become some butter; that while at the store she called Mr. Purvis and informed him of Dillinger'southward plans to attend the Biograph that evening, at the same time obtaining the butter. She then returned to the firm so Polly would not be suspicious that she went out to call anyone.

The crowd at Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, presently later Dillinger was killed at that place by FBI agents.

A squad of federal agents and officers from constabulary forces from outside of Chicago was formed, along with a very small number of Chicago police officers. Among them was Sergeant Martin Zarkovich, the officer to whom Cumpănaș had acted as an informant. At the time, federal officials felt that the Chicago police had been compromised and therefore could non exist trusted; Hoover and Purvis besides wanted more of the credit.^[l] Not wanting to have the risk of another embarrassing escape of Dillinger, the police were carve up into ii groups. On Sunday, one team was sent to the Marbro Theater on the city's west side, while another team surrounded the Biograph Theater at 2433 Due north. Lincoln Avenue on the northward side.^[9]

Shooting at the Biograph Theater and death [edit]

FBI photograph of the Biograph Theater taken July 28, 1934, 6 days after the shooting, the simply night Murder in Trinidad played^[52]

A Dillinger expiry mask made from an original mold, one of four fabricated. A 2nd is on display at the Alcatraz East museum in Pigeon Forge, TN. Notation the bullet get out marker below the correct eye.

At approximately 8:30 p.chiliad., Sage, Hamilton, and Dillinger were observed inbound the Biograph Theater,^{[6] [51] [53]} which was showing the crime drama Manhattan Melodrama, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and William Powell. During the stakeout, the Biograph's director thought the agents were criminals setting upwards a robbery. He chosen the Chicago police, who dutifully responded and had to be waved off by the federal agents, who told them that they were on a stakeout for an important target.^[ix]

When the motion-picture show ended, Purvis^[54] stood by the forepart door and signaled Dillinger's go out past lighting a cigar. Both he and the other agents reported that Dillinger turned his head and looked directly at the amanuensis as he walked by, glanced across the street, then moved ahead of his female companions, reached into his pocket only failed to extract his gun,^{[8] : 353} and ran into a nearby alley.^[fifty] Other accounts stated Dillinger ignored a command to surrender, whipped out his gun, then headed for the aisle. Agents already had the alley airtight off.^[55]

3 men pursued Dillinger into the aisle and fired. Clarence Injure shot twice, Charles Winstead three times, and Herman Hollis once. Dillinger was striking from behind and vicious face first to the basis.^[56]

Dillinger was struck four times, with two bullets grazing him and one causing a superficial wound to the right side. The fatal bullet entered through the back of his neck, severed the spinal cord, passed into his encephalon and exited merely nether the correct eye, severing two sets of veins and arteries.^[five] An ambulance was summoned, although it was shortly credible Dillinger had died from the gunshot wounds; he was officially pronounced dead at Alexian Brothers Infirmary.^{[9] [56]} According to investigators, Dillinger died without proverb a word.^[57] Winstead was later thought to have fired the fatal shot, and every bit a effect received a personal letter of citation^{[ specify ]} from J. Edgar Hoover.^[50]

Ii female bystanders, Theresa Paulas and Etta Natalsky, were wounded. Dillinger bumped into Natalsky but as the shooting started.^{[41] [l]} Natalsky was shot and was afterwards taken to Columbus Hospital.^[58]

Dillinger was shot and killed by the special agents on July 22, 1934,^{[6] [59] [60]} at approximately 10:twoscore p.m, co-ordinate to a New York Times study the adjacent twenty-four hours.^[53] Dillinger'due south decease came just two months after the deaths of fellow notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde. At that place were reports of people dipping their handkerchiefs and skirts into the pool of blood that had formed, as Dillinger lay in the alley, as keepsakes: "Souvenir hunters madly dipped newspapers in the blood that stained the pavement. Handkerchiefs were whipped out and used to mop up the blood."^[61]

Funeral [edit]

Dillinger's body was available for public display at the Cook County morgue.^[62] An estimated fifteen,000 people viewed the corpse over a twenty-four hours and a one-half. Equally many equally four death masks were also fabricated.^[63]

Dillinger is buried at Crown Colina Cemetery in Indianapolis. Dillinger'due south gravestone has been replaced several times because of vandalism by people chipping off pieces equally souvenirs.^[64] Hilton Crouch (1903–1976), an associate of Dillinger's on some early heists, is buried only a few yards to the west.^[65]

Popular culture [edit]

Literature [edit]

• The Shooting of John Dillinger Exterior the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934^[66] a narrative poem by David Wagoner published in his drove Staying Alive (1966). The poet postulates some underlying reasons for the unfolding chain of events, significantly from Dillinger'southward perspective.
• John Dillinger is frequently referred to in the work of William S. Burroughs.
• John Dillinger is featured as a character in The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
• John Dillinger is frequently alluded to in the works of Thomas Pynchon.
• John Dillinger is the main character in Jack Higgins Thunder at noon

Movie depictions [edit]

• 1935: The MGM criminal offence film Public Hero No. one incorporates fictionalized details from Dillinger'southward narrative, including a gun battle at a Wisconsin roadhouse and the killing of the fugitive gangster (Joseph Calleia) every bit he leaves a theater.^[67]
• 1941: Humphrey Bogart played a Dillinger-like role in High Sierra, a motion picture based loosely on research into Dillinger'south life past W.R. Burnett.^[68]
• 1945: Lawrence Tierney played the championship part in the first film dramatization of Dillinger'south career; Dillinger.^[69]
• 1957: Managing director Don Siegel's moving-picture show Babe Face Nelson, starred Mickey Rooney as Nelson and Leo Gordon as Dillinger.^[lxx]
• 1965: "Young Dillinger", starring Nick Adams as John Dillinger, and Robert Conrad as "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
• 1969: Manager Marco Ferreri's film Dillinger Is Expressionless includes documentary footage of existent John Dillinger too as newspaper clips.
• 1971: "Appointment with Destiny; The Last Days of John Dillinger," narrated by Rod Serling, 52 minutes. Shot in newsreel way, very accurate for its time. The belatedly Joseph Pinkston served as technical advisor. Pinkston himself makes an uncredited cameo in the Biograph sequence, playing an agent.
• 1973: Dillinger, directed and written by John Milius with Warren Oates in the title function, presents the gang in a much more than sympathetic light, in keeping with the anti-hero theme popular in films after Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
• 1979: Lewis Teague directed the film The Lady in Red, starring Pamela Sue Martin as the eponymous lady in the scarlet dress. Withal, in this motion-picture show, it is Dillinger'southward girlfriend Polly in carmine, non the Romanian informant Ana Sage (Louise Fletcher). Sage tricks Polly into wearing ruddy so that FBI agents can identify Dillinger (Robert Conrad) every bit he emerges from the picture palace.
• 1991: A TV film Dillinger, starring Marking Harmon
• 1995: Roger Corman produced the fictional film Dillinger and Capone, featuring Martin Sheen as Dillinger and F. Murray Abraham equally Al Capone. Dillinger survives the theater stakeout when the FBI mistakenly guns downwardly his brother and is and so blackmailed by Capone into retrieving $15 1000000 from his undercover vault.
• 2004: "Teargas and Tommyguns; Dillinger Robs the First National Bank", DVD, Mason Metropolis Public Library, 38 minutes. Documentary regarding the bank robbery, including contemporary interviews with still-living witnesses; too contains the H.C. Kunkleman motion picture in its entirety.
• 2009: Director Michael Mann's film Public Enemies is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough'southward book Public Enemies: America'due south Greatest Crime Moving ridge and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. ^[71] The film features Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, Marion Cotillard as Billie Frechette, and Christian Bale equally FBI agent Melvin Purvis. Although the motion picture has accurate portrayals of several key moments in Dillinger's life—such every bit his death and dialogue at his arraignment hearing—information technology is inaccurate in some major historical details, such as the timeline (and location) of deaths of key criminal figures including Pretty Male child Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and Homer Van Meter.^[72]
• 2012: British actor Alexander Ellis portrayed Dillinger in the showtime Dollar Baby screen adaptation of Stephen King's short story, The Expiry of Jack Hamilton.^[73]

Other references [edit]

• The experimental metalcore band "The Dillinger Escape Plan" is named for Dillinger.
• In The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror IV, Dillinger appears as a member of the Jury of the Damned.
• Woody Allen's character'south failed prison escape in the moving-picture show "Take The Money and Run" is a parody of Dillinger's 1934 escape.
• In the movie High Fidelity (motion-picture show) the main character Rob references the shooting at the Biograph picture palace, merely gets several details incorrect, including who tipped off the federal agents.
• The song, "Reverie", past Protest The Hero (Palimpsest, 2020) depicts Dillinger's hardening into "the meanest bastard yous've ever seen" during incarceration.
• Headie One references Dillinger in his 2021 unmarried "Siberia". The lyric reads: "Jakes (police force) wanna deal with me like Johnny Dillinger Dillinger"
• Referenced in Seinfeld Season 4 "The Handicap Spot".
• Referenced in The Newsroom (American Television serial) Season 2, Episode two "The Genoa Tip".
• Referenced in The Americans (A Cold War Spy series) Flavour 2, Episode 11, Stealth (38:23)

Gallery of Dillinger Gang members [edit]

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See also [edit]

• Hotel Congress
• List of Depression-era outlaws
• The Dillinger Escape Program, an American mathcore band who took their proper noun from Dillinger and his multiple escapes from jail.
• The Dillinger Dossier
• The Terror Gang

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Further reading [edit]

• Beverly, William. On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover'south America. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. 2003. ISBN 1-57806-537-ii.
• Burrough, Bryan. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Nativity of the FBI, 1933–34. New York: Penguin Press. 2004. ISBN 1-59420-021-1.
• Cromie, Robert and Pinkston, Joseph. Dillinger: A Brusque and Vehement Life (1962)
• DeBartolo, Anthony. Dillinger's Dupes: Town Seeks To Preserve A Jail Nonetheless Escape A Dastardly Deed. Chicago Tribune.
• Erickson, Matt and Bill Thornbro. John Dillinger: A Yr in the Life. The Times of Northwest Indiana.
• Girardin, G. Russell, Helmer, William J., Mattix, Rick. Dillinger: The Untold Story.
• Gorn, Elliott J. Dillinger'south Wild Ride: The Twelvemonth That Fabricated America'southward Public Enemy Number One (New York, OUP U.s., 2009).
• Helmer, William J.; Mattix, Rick (1998). Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919–1940. New York Metropolis, New York: Facts on File. p. 17. ISBN 0-8160-3160-6.
• Peters, Robert. What Dillinger Meant to Me Seahorse Printing 1983 (with link to complete text online)
• Toland, John. The Dillinger Days. Random House 1963

External links [edit]

• Works virtually John Dillinger at Open Library
• Works about John Dillinger at WorldCat Identities

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