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a cas : a oan Us O-19 (Rev. 1-28-59) Sarees, a, Rosen Taomn. tC Af Trotter W.Cc. Sullivan — Tele. Room Holioman Gandy By ROBERT THOMPSON Washington, Dec. 4——In an orderly, green-walled office | looking down the cluttered east slope of Capito] Hill, a soft- - spoken Southern gentleman ponders daily over mammoth | jegal volumes. At first glance, he might be taken for a scholary Dixie lawyer— which he is. He might also be identified as an astute Carolina a businesaman—which he is. He would not by any stretch ef imagination, however, fit the popular conception of the relent- ess lawman who tracked to death one of the country’s most notori- ous gangsters—John Dillinger. ‘Yet, the gently drawling, slightly built Southerner in the Capitol Hill office ig Melvin Purvis——hailed across the nation 25 years ago as “the man who got Dillinger.” ; It’ was Purvis who, es head of the Chicago office of the FBI, [ jed a band of 26 federal agents and police ofifcers on the nicht of July 22, 1934, to the North Side Chicago theatre where Dillinger’s career as Puthe Enemy No. } came to a drama&tic end bloody end. For five hectir months. Pur- vis and his fellow FRI agents hac cnased the elusive and treacher- ous [hllinger back and = forto across the Midwest. At one point, -they comered .the gangster and,. his henchmen in the Little Bo- hemia jodge in Wisconsin. only to have him escape in a running gun battle. - . tence a Ther. -on that sultry July night,-as Dillinger. hid- girl friend, Polly Hamilton, and a former bawdy house madam, Anna Sage, ; emerged from watching the gangster movie “Manhattan Melodrama,” New York Journal-American the gunman was shot to death, Purvis cften has been identified in print as the agent who fired the fatal shots, and Anpa Saye, who fingered Dillinger out in the New York Daily News _ uy theatre erowd,-has been writin jotd Historg as “thé Woman it Red,” - New York’ Post a Sr ed by ‘imaginative re- ; ; porters. The New Yorr Times . 1 “The men whe fired the shots that night.” explaine Tuyvis, \ The Washington Post and ‘ -e . : “ — rig rae a ee 2 eee Met Wo ta ad EMRE VEC PONY dealt ln ee The Washington Dally News r The Evening Stor pages New York Herald Tribune —__ New York Mirror Both claims, says Purvis, were concoct The Worker ‘Simnst immediztein evreed that ne one weuid tell whe killed Poe lhhecr. Yo never heve toid. and [ assume none of the others pve. The New Leader Mest of us were veurr feliows. We had « feeling there wag ne ne Wali Street Jouma: ! at hongr in taking part in killing a man.” Date . é - . ‘ A, - oe Paes . 2 ae Ree ag ita ;