Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 3 | Women Linked with Career of Dillinger

Women Linked With Career of Dillinger Girl Friends at Bottom of Outlaws Outlaw's Lurid Career Early Romance Blocked I Editors Editor's note Following is the last of three arti articles on significant cant factors in John Dillinger's vicious career By MARTIN 1 KANE Copyright 1934 by United Press John Dillinger's troubles with women began and ended his brief but spectacular day as a major criminal A disappointment in his first firstI I romance sent him to the navy from which he deserted and a a. jealous woman led him to his death In between he was married and divorced divorced divorced di di- and had a dozen 10 of the gun girl type I His first romance was not idyllic It was just an ordinary boy and girl af at- fair Its conclusion soured him on society r. r He had a job operating a screw machine machine machine ma ma- chine which paid him 7 a day It was vas the first job he had ever held for more than a few weeks He bought a cheap automobile and encountered Cupid on its back seat scat He wa was then 18 and wanted to marry the girl but her parents were prominent nent in Mooresville society and b business business busi busi- siness si- si ness life lire John was just a farmers farmer's son with a well earned reputation for wildness The girl was was ord ordered red not notto notto notto to speak to him Lacked Courage Dillinger lacked the courage to face bce it out with the girls girl's parents who probably are congratulating themselves themselves themselves them them- selves on their their- foresight He ran away from irom home and enlisted in the navy Restraint again was was was' too much for him lim The discipline and regular bo hours rs the rigid schedule to which he be was was held proved too confining Two I sessions in n the brig for being A. A W. W O. O L. L were enough He jumped ship at Boston returning to his fathers father's farm I Apparently the navy didn't think he was worth looking for Without a ajor ajob job or prospects of a job he tie married pretty Beryl Ethel Hoys 18 16 the belle of Morgan county Dillinger Dil linger loafed in the village poolroom and met Ed Singleton graduate of the Michigan City prison Sent to Reformatory They joined in the robbery of a Mooresville grocer who recognized recognised them and were sentenced to the state reformatory While he was there Dillinger's Dillinger's Dil Dil- lingers linger's young oung wife divorced him in inJune inJune inJune June 1929 Married subsequently to toan toan toan an Eminence Ind lad farmer larmer She he said shortly before her former husband was killed John Dillinger is just as good as dead to me Paroled from the reformatory Dillinger Dil linger slipped easily back into crime His women from then on were not respectable country girls but those i 1 strange women of the underworld underworld- gun molls molts His Don Juan proclivities proclivities-a a domi domi- nent trait that led to his bis downfall downfall- had free play among these consorts o of killers Gun Girls Deserted They ran with his bis pack through the midwest hiding out from the law quickly deserted and left in the hands of police when the bandits had to flee lee Three girls in their teens were taken in a federal raid on Little Bo Bo- Bo hernia hemia lodge at Mercer Wis last las April DillinGer and his male confederates corned coaled escaped When Dillinger and three of his mob were captured at Tucson Ariz four women accompanied them Taken to the pail at Crown Point Ind md a woman posing as his wife visited him She was Elaine de Kant Dent Den Burton sweetheart of Dillinger's feI- feI fel- fel law gangster John Jimmie Hamil Hamil- ton Girl Aided Escape Among other peculiarities of his lils stay there jail officials permitted her herto herto to talk freely to io Dillinger in a code which consisted o of the us use of insignificant 1 cant numbers numbers' interspersed with ordinary ordinary nary conversation Six days l later ter Dillinger walked out armed with a wooden gun Authorities charged Evelyn Freschette Freschette Fre- Fre half breed d Indian girl wit with assisting Dillinger's escape from a 1 StPaul St S1- Paul flat a short time later They said she started his automobile and kept the engine running until he was was able to escape from the house Woman Death Lure Women helped him escape and a 3 woman sent him to his death He lie entered entered en en- a Chicago theater with a 3 aman woman wo YvO man In red who had tipped off oll palice police po po- lice She was jealous because he had hat taken another woman on a jaunt into the north woods Dillinger came carne out of the theater Two police bullets rammed into his chest A third went through his head He staggered up an alley and lay in inthe inthe inthe the gutter writhing blood pouring from irom between his lips A A. snarl formed on his mouth and when he died it was still there