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Melvin Purvis — Part 2
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they falleg.to obey. One man was killed and the two others.a.deputy uty sheriff a few days later. pte
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were"Wounded, one seriously. As Purvis acknowledged, one of the molls that Dillinger nursed the dying
‘these men had come to the Little Bohemia only, “ te drink and buried him in a ‘gravel pit at Oswego, Kendall
For 4 few minutes the nolse was deafening as 16 FBI Tommy Carroll was killed 15 days after the Wises
exchanged fire with the.gangsters, who were. shooting fiasco by two detectives in Waterloo, Ta. ~ 4) 5278)
Public clamor for a roundup of the be
Gead or alive, grew hysterical produced
Wooden Gun or ‘Crossed Pal
- Using a wooden pistol, carved with @ rarer blade and
blackened with shoe polish, Dillinger walked out ef the
Crown Point, Ind, jail. It was reported, however, that
meee eee br crossing palm © with
gmoney. . /
May 2% he gubmitted to surgery on his face in the hope
Pe a ee. ee Probasce, fase « anitable fan
disguising
got away, but one of them, George [Baby Face) Nelson, ates sie faa
-tarried in the cabin on the right side of the lodge, where | penitentia Y iful fmmensely costly im terme of
he waz quartered, to exchange a few shots with it Hives and I nk 4 it s, bat profitable to decters
'. After the shooting had stopped, agents threw tear gas! _
shells thru the windows of the lodge, The proprietor, who Fs Si
“had come out in the cold without a coat, was given per- '
mission to go to a neighbor's house and borrow one. He
tetuarned and said there was 2 gun battle at the neighbor's
Baum, an FBI man, had been killed by one of the gangsters, for the operation. ‘A mole was removed from his forehead,
_ Who also had wounded Jay Newman, another FBI man, and a dimple from his chin, two slices of tissue trom his cheek
Ee ean eeel, constanie. a ee ere Unsuccessful sttempts were made to iy
ae tear gas brought Marie Conforti, girl friend of -
KMomer Yan Meter: Helen Gillis, wife of Nelson; and Jean
Foelaney, Tommy Carroll's girl, out of the lodge. When
pape ‘were able to search it, they found nobody ee
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