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Melvin Purvis — Part 2

104 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 29, 1960 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Melvin Purvis · 104 pages OCR'd
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‘moll, Mary Kinder. He offered no re “ta Te station later he suddenly reached for his at en nr en eed fe BA "txthe preserice. of- gangsters, . ‘had five. guns leveled on, on! eet MeeB ee be eet dees Dhan them Pi D&IOTe De COUID Graw. wach wey searched bins 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? Hips: ; x: Sv) bs “ vie 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 BOLOSTADH WHE 3 a around 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 ‘aay was arrested at a tourist camp with hig) 06.0 at ace Gar ON cabal sail ; ¥ may tok A By a 4 ue “pptate y of o rh ~ - dd alata el & Ale.
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