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Melvin Purvis — Part 2
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they found two more guns, one in his shoulder hols,
one in his sock. RS
Makley was arrested next and then Dillinger,
without difficulty. ‘They waited for him at ~ epee
which he had rented three days eariier, and casually
‘him into custody when he drove up with Evelyn Frechetts
! his half-breed Indian sweetheart. .
Pierpont, Clark, and Makley, charged with the
of Sheriff Sarber and the jail delivery of Dillinger in
were turned over to Ohio authorities. Pierpont was el
Was ‘Firing Squad’ Neciaary?
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e: : from which her notorions prisoner escaped. The slaying of Dillinger by an FBI “firing squad
: me 4 a sear Chicago's Blograph theater was a spectacalar sut-
e , dng the robbery and fired four times at Dillinger, who'll cess- It fs a reasonable conjecture, bowever, that « Jone
; | always wore a bullet proof vest. “You asked for it,” Dul- || policeman from Tucson, Artz, would have gone inte <
theater and brought Dillinger out alive and disarme$.
linger ald viciously pointing his machine gun at O'Malley.
The policeman was killed instantly. |
illinger was wanted in half a dozen states and often cuted. Makley, sentenced to die, was mortally “wounded!
Teported seen in half a dozen places at the same time. while trying t0 escape. Clark was senteneed to life im,
On Jan. 22 a fire in the Congress hotel, Tucson, Ariz, where |prisonment. Hi Se caBOR
Dillinger, Clark, Makley, and Pierpont were enjoying a Dillinger was flown from Tucson to Chicago-apd
fespite from Chicago's winter weather, resulted in their ‘taken te Crown Point, ind., to await trial for the slay
rapture. Firemen became suspicious when they found ma-. jof Policeman O'Malley in the East Chicago bank robbery
ehing guns and other articles of gang warfare in the ban-! A large sum of money taken from the Mat Neaee
Gits’ rooms, and later identified the desperadoes from in his possession when he was arrested in Tucgoa.-
caps, _ ge When Dillinger arrived in Crown Point A
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i Jan. 25 Tucson police found Clark in a bungalow, \gaaded to pose for a news paotograph with
he had just rented, and beat him into submission.| (Lake county prosecutor, with their arms
, his mistress, was arrested with him er, it was said, agreed reluctantly, elthert
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