| Show P Police l ce Escort scort Corpse Of Dillinger to to Grave Guards Stationed Around round Coffin to Prevent Theft of oJ Body at Funeral I INDIANAPOLIS Ind Jul July r 25 UP- UP John UP-John John Di Dillinger went to hi his grave today escorted by the same Indiana Indiana- police I who chased him up down the count fc and countryside for four months Curious throngs lined the streets from the modest little Maywood Marwood home of Dillinger's sister Mrs Audrey Hancock to the Crown Hill cem cern According to a previous s announcement announce announce- announcement ment the services were ere to have be been n held Thursday but were advanced d when Mrs Hancock who was opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed to a hasty funeral was persuaded per per- that rites today would prevent prevent pre pre- pro pre vent r nt a rush of m morbid spectators to 10 o ohe the he ceremony Despite secrecy in changing the time ime time however police were forced to form orm a cordon around the the- Hancock bungalow and block off a crowd of hundreds of curious from the he scene of the services Dillinger was killed in Chicago Sunday night by federal agents gents as he walked out of a moving picture the the- ater His father John W W. Dillinger Quaker farmer from Mooresville claimed the body yesterday It was whisked back to Mooresville Moores Moores- ville yule in an antiquated hearse today taken aken to the funeral parlors of E. E F. F Harvey larvey and viewed by more than persons After the curious had been satis- satis fled I d Dillinger's body was placed in the hearse again and brought to the h home me of Mrs Hancock She and the elder cIder Dillinger were waiting Mrs Hancock waited until the cover had been raised on the casket She buried her face in her arms and was led to the front porch She sat in th the swing beside Mary Kinder a sweetheart of the Dillinger g gang ging ng who had remained loyal and who had just arrived from viewing the bod body at Mooresville The last time I saw Johnnie he had a big smile on his face tace and said Dont worry Mrs Hancock sobbed Miss Mits Kinder cried too too and moaned Oh my God Johnnie Johnniel The father meanwhile had gone to bed exhausted from his trying experience He is 70 years old When Dillinger's body first was placed on view at Mooresville he was lying on a slab with wheels covered only with a white sheet At least persons walked by stilling stifling in the heat-choked heat room of the undertaking parlor Doors of the undertaking parlor Continued on Page Pace Two I HOME FOLK SEE DILLINGER BO BODY Y Nations Nation's Ace Outlaw to Be Buried in Cheap Pine f Casket Continued from Pate Pue One were ordered closed while L. L W. W lowell Howell How an expert em almer lImer brought i in n from Indianapolis dressed the theody body ody and used co cosmetics to cover up ugly gly facial scars left Jen by the federal mens men's bullets The crowd outside increased so rapidly rapidly rap- rap idly that it was decided to give them another nother Chance bance to to- to view the body Looks Look Like Wax Sax Model When the new thron throng was admitted ad ad- mitt milled d Dillinger was J lying ing in his silk ilk lined casket He looked like a wax model o of himself His suit was too oo large the sleeves almost ting his hands Mary Kinder fought her wa way through the crowd accompanied by her cr sister and nd Miss Mis Jessie Levy In attorney and counsel for three of Dillinger's henchmen henchmen- Charles harles Makley Harry Pierpont and Russell Clark Makley and Pierpont are re under sentence to die for killing Sheriff Jess Sarber when they freed Dillinger from the Lima Ohio jail Clark is under undera a life sentence on the same ame charge Mist Miss Kii Kinder r cried and sat in a chair chairo to o wait for or one last look after alter the crowd had thinned out Its John she said Theres no doubt about it at those those those who vho had k known own the outlaw as a well wel meaning son of ot a Quaker farmer until he began his criminal career career- came caine out nodding their heads Flowers in Basement That's John That's John the they muttered restaurants taverns and other establishments did more business than on a busy bwy Saturday night Mrs Hancock ordered her house opened to those who wished to se see sec her brother The absence of flowers flow flay ers era was called to her attention We received many from neighbors neigh neIgh- bors hors and friends of ot John she he ex ex ex- But we put them in he basement for tonight Its It's io O o ho liol hot L they would have wilted by morning |
