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Loetmon Seba higiinre: fore ace Aneesh ish babe eee og CMS Fe eP Ere ry ee etre etree “G” MEN AND DETECTIVES AT WORK A Greencastle, Indiana bank was robbed of $75,000 on October 23—after which Dillinger was believed to. ‘have driven to Florida. The state of Indiana was in a turmoil, The national guard was called out and a search started that would have done credit to a search for Jesse James or Pancho Villa, who thought he could indefinitely defy organized Governments. John Dillinger next appeared in Chicago where he evaded a trap set for him by the Chicago police in a dentist’s office, escaping with a woman companion through a rain of bullets. Soon after, on November 20, another bank was held up in Racine, Wisconsin, to the amount’ of $28,000. The looted vaults of the Unity Trust and Savings Bank on West North Ave., in Chicago, yielded a great deal of jewelry and over $8,700. ‘At the next robbery on January 14, Dillinger, as- sisted by Pierpont and Hamilton, robbed the First National Bank of East Chicago, Indiana, of $20,000, and killed a policeman, Wm. P. O’Malley. The bandits escaped,-but ten days later Dillinger, Clark, Pierpont and Makley with three women were captured in Tucson. Threé states: Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin, vied for their extradition: Indiana for the murder of O’Malley; Ohio for the murder of Sheriff Sarver; Wisconsin for the Racine robbery. It was decided that they be brought to Crown Point, Indiana for trial on the charge of murdering policeman O'Malley. Later, Clark, Pierpont and Makley were turned over to the state of Ohio. 18 <x THE “WOOD GUN” ESCAPE They held Dillinger at Crown Point for about a month. Then, on March 3, with Youngblood he es- ‘caped from the jail, using the famous toy pistol. It was after this escape by means of an alleged wooden pistol that the U.S. Police and Government started the most spectacular man hunt ever known in Amer- - ica. Eight of Dillinger’s lieutenants were marked for death—by the electric chair if possible, or by gunfire if necessary. . For a while Dillinger was very successful at evad- ing the police. On the 13th of March he and Hamilton were traced to Mason City, Iowa. On that day $52,000 was taken from the First National Bank. On the 15th they received medical treatment at St. Paul. There a new gang was formed including Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Lester Gillis—better known as “Baby Face” Nelson. Dillinger and his sweetheart, contin- ued to live in a good residential neighborhood in St. Paul until March 31—when they and Van Meter shot ‘their way out of a trap set for them by Federal men and Police. After April 22, when he and his gang again shot their way out of a resort on Spider Lake in northern Wisconsin, killing a federal agent and a CWA em- ployee, he was apparently seen in many places. ~ On June 23—through special legislation, the federal government offered $10,000 in rewards for Dillinger and $5,000 for Nelson—who had killed agent Baum. In addition, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Min- nesota offered $1,000 reward each for Dillinger. 19