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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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abe, 4 ee Rin fis bee eS Or ee ot Phe eo es 8 ees ahs seid we wow tye a Re A wre re way 5 oa . err a vo sod Purvis delicately mphrazed i it. - Dillinger’s woman companions vanished in. the crowd. In the newspapers Mrs, Sage was known as “ themysterious P battle of Barrington, fotr months later, to which.# woman in red,” tho she wore not 4 speck of red. Apparently | pace” Nelson, Dillinger’s most dreaded associate si womeone thought her orange skirt looked red under the)*8e Nelson, © lights of the marquee. : Cae. successor aa Public Enemy No, 1 killed two FBI ag ,. Whe artist [Ben Cohen, now of Tae Taxs-|"2s himself mortally wo Oe ee arnt en noticed| . On Nov. 27, 1934, Nelson and John Paul Ciust,. sat] arived atthe scene to make akeiches, be ‘ car with Nelaon’s wife, fought a running highway gun bales with two FRI agents in another cay, Roth care were ob "Trust in Woman Misplaced - ‘Jem. bat nobody was hurt _ Later two other FBI dgonts, ta . . : . e' chased elson’ tare, Dillinger was betrayed by a woman. A former and got out of the car. When the two agents came Chicago, Ind. turned him im in the hope of escaping battle and Nelson's wife reloaded guns for both men.” , up. “People with h handkerchiefs, ”* g policeman explained. /Center [now Skokie]. . ‘At the Cook county morgue the next day 15,000 persons All of the 10. men who escaped from the b by and viewed Dillinger’s body. Men and women\city penitentiary with Dillinger’s assistance. wore. elth for @ final glimpse of the dead gangster when aa/returned to prison or killed. These inctuded faug ‘Jendl ertaker from Mooresville, accompanied by Dillinger’s | members of Dillinger’s gang, of whom thred were. , took him away in an ancient black bearse.” =~. he had finished hie sketches the blood had heen mopped day at the entrance to St, Paul's Lutheran er
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