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G19 (Rev. i-11-60) eo + FLORENCE, 8, C., Feb. 29 rk >) — Mild-mannered Melvin Pu whose I teams shot down John Di er and Pret- ty Boy Floyd in bloody gang- ster cleanups of the 1930s, died by his own hand today. Purvis, 56, who had left the FEI in 1935 te follow careers n law and broadcasting, shot himseif with a .45 caliber au- tomatic pistol in his home here. Hig physician said he had been depressed and in poor health recently . Coroner William T. Eaddy said 2 self-inflicted -shet through the jaw brought death whortly before noon in the up- etaire’ hallway of his home. ‘is wife ran from the garden hen a shot rang out and pund the body. ame Through Dillinger . Twenty-five years ago, a law graduate of the Un ersity of South Caroling, peaded & picked teim of EA ents as geet o reffice.. * rit was the Dillinger “shodt- An that brought Purvis na- or headlines. : Dillinger, ed “the most brazen outla ince Jesse James,” walked put of a Chicago movie house the night of July 22, 1634, and sto a fusillade of shots from men when he started to run. Dillinger had been sought, e the country for at Jeast| ; 3 murders and bank robber- Mes netting §500,000. “| On Oct. 22, 1034, Purvis’ men, eornered Pretty Boy- Floyd | . alick-haired desperado’ m met death in a cornfield north erpool, 001, OD itareneaar| f ago to help prepare: recom: ‘mendations for the improve-. ment of Federal justice admin- istration for the Senate Judi ‘ciary Committee.. home: | While in Washington be down with the flu and, ury, a fam: three gro n sons. He was an: “Army officer in’ World War Ty and : investigated : ; ‘Qeainst accused re eee _ Belmont Callaha DeLoac Malone McGuire Rosen Tamm Trotter Tele. Room __— Ingram Gandy iS es BREE Un earn bid The Washington Poet and Times Herald The Washington Dally News The Evening Star : New York Herald Tribune New York Journdl-Ametican New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Tines The Worker The New Leader _..___.._ The Wall Street Jourmal Date w.C. Sullivan — ° aw a. See Sa ere ee be ot il * ing 2 - ~