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THE GANG’S ROUND UP It is estimated that Dillinger’s cost, to society was over a million dollars: that over 12. bank robberies brought him more than $300,000; that because of him many more people were sent to jail; and that in addi- tion the government and states involved spent over. $500,000. -After the death of Dillinger, Government Agents _ determined to round up all those who aided him. HOMER VAN METER died while resisting a trap set for him Sept. 22 at St. Paul, Minnesota. CHARLES MAKLEY, a college man, who had escaped from Michigan City, Sept. 26, 1933, while serving a 10 year sentence for robbery, was shot and killed when he and Pierpont tried to escape from Columbus Ohio Prison, where he was held for execu- . tidn. HARRY PIERPONT, escaped from Michigan City Sept. 26, 1933, while serving a 10-year term for Bank Robbery. He gained a reputation as a deadly “quick trigger” man. He was executed Oct. 17 at Columbus, Ohio Prison. “BABY FACE” NELSON was shot to death Nov. 17, 1934, in a terrific gun battle at Barrington, ‘Ill., during which Federal Agents Samuel P. Cowley and Herman E. Hollis were slain. One man, in whose home it was claimed Dillinger’s facial operation was performed, five days later fell - ‘from the 19th floor office of the Dept. of Justice. 22 BROUGHT TO JUSTICE JOHN HAMILTON was the last of Dillinger’s Lieutenants to be taken off the “active” list. His body was dug up in a quarry grave near Oswego, III. by federal agents on Aug. 28, 1935. From the condition of the outlaw’s body it was theorized that he had been dead for many months, and that he had evidently been killed even before the death of his leader, in July, 1934. Rooming House keepers, attorneys, doctors, and others, both men and women in different parts of the country, who had assisted these gunmen, were also brought to justice by the Government and Police. Each received either a jail sentence or fine. The Bloody Barrows, (Buck and Clyde) were first heard of on Aug. 13, 1928, when Buck was arrested in ‘San Antonio, Texas, for the theft of a car. Although he was discharged for that theft, from then on the two brothers were in prison and out. In 1932 Clyde was freed from a Texas Prison. He teamed up with Bonnie Parker “two-gun Moll.” The two then became the center of a reign of terror in the southwest states. ALVIN KARPIS has been accused by the Federal Government as a kidnapper of Earl Bremmer of St. Paul and murder committed during Bank Robberies. 23