Show LIQUIDATED I TRUE PRE liquidation of John Dillinger r under the thc 1 eerie lights of ofa a Chicago theater marquee marque where he had been in company with two of his girl friends to to see a gangster film rubs out O Americas America's most notorious evildoer At the same time it recalls two or ot three incidents w which ich are arc peculiar to these times and upon which future historians doubtless will draw for their commentaries remarking sagely sagel perhaps How could such things have been l For Tor one thing this underworld rat waded knee deep in blood through a long career of crime t that at richly rewarded him and for a along along long time craftily eluded capture until small smalltown smalltown town cops in an Arizona hick t wn took him without firing a shot something shot something hundreds of f the most able sleuths of the country had unable to do Too their little jail held him until they were ready to turn him over to Indiana authorities Lodged in the Crown Point jail he boasted he would not be tl there ere long With a wooden gun he made good his boast and started the thc biggest manhunt ever eve staged in th the United States His lug escape from the Crown Point jail wrote finis to the political careers of a woman sheriff and a prosecuting attorney who posed for news vs pictures with the outlaws outlaw's arm rm draped about his shoulders and lost a job for fort forthe t the tiie jl jailer l. l who r ho surrendered lJ hi his J keys keys' to 9 the L If gang gan chief awl his Itis negro co co Being BeinO o an ace acc ladies' ladies man it is small wonder wonder won won- der that a lady in a ared red dress was the finger woman who told toll department of justice operatives operatives opera opera- t tives cs where and when to find the insouciant killer TIe Thc law aw hath bath no aid Rid like a woman scorned In Dillinger's case ease it was lea cs femmes Dapper in silk shirt and white while flannel pants he lie was dealt death as he had dealt it He lie died i in a n dirty thirty alley with a gun in his hand but the thc law beat him 1 m to the draw As the lead drilled holes in their heros hero's hide his lady friends took to their he heels cIs all the r romance and thrill of their One Ni Night ht You going goin up lp in ill smoke as the D. D J. J men blazed blac l away The fhe right to trial by br a jur jury of his peers was denied him lim but no lamentations lamenta lamenta- arc are heard Anyway where could twelve of his peers be found 1 Then there was the lunatic appeal that the thc hunt be called off that tha John be permitted to togo togo togo go back to his fathers father's farm and start all over again 1 I He was not a bad boy at heart heart lie he would mke inke a wonderful detective I 1 Because th they finally got Dillinger hi demise toes up in a patrol wagon gave new life to the wheeze Crime do doesn't pay par The trouble is that it does for does for a n time time handsome handsome ly Ir y It pa pays s 's not only the criminal but the unscrupulous lawyer the fixer the bail bond racketeer the influential politician and venal officialdom The fhe profit motive in crime is a prime mover Dillinger is said to It have aye received one third of or the estimated as the thc yield of his csc es cs- cs c It cost Uncle Sam to run him down Thc The finger woman woman ma may g get t the reward for the thc information that led to his s taking The fhe offered by the government for or his bis capture may go to no one as the thc department department department de de- de- de of justice men men arc are barred by law from benefiting But how soon the thc Ii net t began to tighten around the hunted man when the in bounty came into si I The root of all evil vii yil however subjects thc the department of justice to no reproach The chief of pf its investigators calls for fOl relentless war on all who have in any way been associated with the Dillinger mob and thc the rest of 1 It it is as tenacious as i it has been in the thc hunt for this arch criminal a tough job well and bravely done it will earn the thc gratitude of every decent citizen |