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_ ; oo lig toned, aguinet ’Mioger 10 Singleton, plead- ete way ata + one, aatin tess oe toad ne aaa ” tn the state reformatory at Pendleton. . ’ and Harry Pierpont, all experienced bank robbers and long termers. te eer oe . reced girl Ipethe following September he and Ed Singleton, Before tin eae en journalism and Mooresville boy, robbed a 65 year old storekeeper | s., to be release, aineer had Frank Morgan. Morgan offered.no resistance, but mentors. He ke ot he enendee the risen for o they hit him over the head with # lead pipe. Both were | ‘ton, Clark, o pro “ and on Sept. 26, 1933, Ham od aguinst :D en: and: Peceived 2: tight! iger was se te serve 10 to 20 years | Before leaving, they armed vi machine piel from the prison arsenal. © «2% #02 Meanwhile Dillinger, after a series of bank zoUberk (in Indiana, had been captured in Dayton and ‘{to the county jail at Lima, O., a humiliating |® Proud desperado. His newly liberated pals resolved return the favor he had done for them. Gn Oct 42 as Clark, Makley, and Pierpont calmly entered the " SETTAT Jesse Sarber and said-they were police officers whe come from Michigan City to return > lating his parole. sf red te oe atl . From the’ beginning of his term in the reformstory, Dillinger Dore a grudge against society. He was a sullen, troublesome prisoner. After two unsuccessful attempts to break out, he was transferred to the Indiana State peniten- tiary at Michigan City, where he studied criminal proce- dures under John Hamilton, Russell Clark, Charles Makley, 5 ; i F AN After Dillinger had been in prison nine years, all those who had been responsible, directly or indirectly, for sending him there, including his lead pipe slugging victim, signed & petition for his parole. Paul McNutt, Indiana’s.new Dem- deratic governor, granted the petition. It was a costly error im terms of human life, bank deposits, and the public sup- port of law enforcement agencies, but it was profitable for Moctors and undertakers. . Dillinger was released on May 23, 1933, just 14 months ore he was shot to death by FBI agents. In that 14 Dillinger went into winter headquarters i a on for bins be visited a dentist's office and eluded a trap set for Chicago police, On Dec. 14, John Harailtons leader of the 10 convicts whom Dillinget bad had helped te escape from the Michigan City prison, killed Police Sgt: William T. Shanley in an automobile repair shop at 6320: Broadway, where he had taken his car to have a fender straightened. On New Year's eve, Dillinger and six other gangsters held up the Beverly Gardens, a night club on on 8; Western avenue. In 2 gun battle there, two policemen and two gangsters were wounded. - wth . On Jan. 15, Dillinger and Hamilton, ‘both ¢ guns, held up the First National Chicago, Ind. Policeman William P. OnMaley entered Arizona. Police Weren’t Awed Ditinger and three of his gangsters, all wanton At Killers, were arrested and disarmed without difficulty by H Tneson, Ariz, policemen, who were not in the least awed pont? he rivaled the new depression era President, LP. Roosevelt, as a subject of frgnt page news. It was an ate ee aa ated so ae ee ee A ere a ant we pe heen , “Fe : 7% ‘ “4 eee OE