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REWARDS-ALIVE OR DEAD Dillinger and Van Meter then.decided to have their DILLINGER AND HIS GANGS faces and finger-tips operated on. For this they needed money. So, on June 30 it is claimed Dillinger and four companions raided the Merchant's National Bank at South Bend, Indiana, obtaining $29,890, and killing policeman Howard Wagner.. The report .finally was! spread that he was seen oftenest in the neighborhood of Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. Federal agents continued to hunt him down.. Then they received a tip from "A Lady In Red" that Mr. Dillinger had long wanted to see the moving pic- ture, "Manhattan Melodrama,' and that this film was being shown at the Biograph Theater on Lincoln Ave. on Sunday evening, July 22.. The trap was carefully laid.. "G men' had studied his peculiar gray eyes, his walk, his stride. His face had been changed, but they were warned before they identify Dillinger was by the back of his neck." Federal agents and police watched Dillinger enter the theater. They waited for him to come out. He stepped out of the crowd in the lobby, began to walk south from the theater-and as he' crossed a nearby alley he turned, saw his pursuers, dodged behind some women into the alley and dropped-wounded three times in the abdomen and the upper part of the body- beyond the protection of his bullet-proof vest. He died at 10:45 P. M. July 22, 1934, ending a most event- Key to Illustrations: 1) Flees G Men in Raid; 2) ful career that had lasted exactly fourteen months. Shooting Their Way Out of Trap; 3) Raiding Police Station; 4) Bank Hold-up; 5) The Wooden Pistol; 6) Dillinger is Shot.. 20