Show GUN BATTLE SPURS HUNT I FOR FUR DILLINGER Police Stirred t to Renewed Search for Desperado t t. t i Aft After r Fight ALL ALL' AVAILABLE MEN OUT Arrest of Fingerprint Expert at Jail Is Effected By Dr Associated Press Frew CHICAGO March 10 A la-A A sensational sensation sensation- al gun fight in which the police pollee belleve believe John Dillinger kill crazy jail al breaker break break- er ervas was the chief gunner sent investigators gators on an intensified hunt for the slippery desperado Saturday The fight occurred late Frida Friday night in suburban Schiller park between gunmen and Police Chief Robert Robe Christian Chris Chris- tian han of the suburb wh whose e car was completely disabled by gunfire Believed ilL In In Hideout The men wh whose sc le leader leader- der was was' identified lied fied by James Gaskin a chauffeur r as Dillinger escaped They They- are are believed to have gone to a hideout in Wiscon sin sin 5 Chief Christian had nad pursued two iwo speeding sedans As he hc drew up to one machine a a gun was thrust through the rear rear window Shots splattered all allaround allaround around the chief chic but bul he ho was unhurt He returned the fire but without apparent ap ap- parent patent el effect ct and the tw two cars cars sped sway away lY One of the machines was believed to have been the same one stolen earlier in the thc night from Mrs Herman Herman Her Her- man Stern by whom is em ern- plo played ed Gaskin told police that three or ar four men in another car turn him him stole Mrs Sterns Stern's car car took him along Jlong with wilh them and th then n forced him Continued on on Pane Page To TwO BATTLE SPURS DILLINGER HUNT Alleged Pal of Desperado on Trial for Killing Sheriff Sheriff Sher Sher- iff at Lima Continued from Pane Fate One out roaring aWay away aray to safety From picures pic plc- tures ures he said he recognized Dillinger as one of the men men Federal officials delivered their second see sec ond blow in the Dillinger affair by ordering the arrest of ot Ernest Blunk fingerprint expert who is accused o of locking Matt Brown one of Dillinger's guards in a cell cen shortly before Dil linger ineer escaped Previously the govern govern- ment removed Its eight prisoners from the Crown Point jail to South Bend The order for Blunk's arrest was based on the allegation that he viola violat violated violat- violat ed the Dyer act by driving a stolen automobile across the Indiana Illinois line ine with Dillinger as a passenger last las Saturday when Dillinger escaped with wit the aid of a wooden pistil The automobile automobile auto auto- mobile stolen from Shut Shun Lillian Hilley Hiley Hil Hil- Hil- Hil icy ley ey later was found lound abandoned in Chicago Blunk protested that he was compelled to do the driving at th the point poin t of a gun Gunman Takes Stand At Lima Murder Trial LIMA Ohio March 10 T Harry JP-Harry Harry Pierpont Saturday took the stand i in his own defense for the first degree degre murder of Sheriff SherI Jess L. L Sarber This surprise move by the defense defens came ame after alter questioning o of the jury by defense counsel had indicated th the acc accused d trigger man of a John Di Dil linger jail delivery might not test testify fy for himself The sleek bank robber and gunman gunman gun gun- man took his seat where Friday a former pal Edward Shouse had hac declared that Pierpont was the guy guy who killed the sheriff in the delivery the night of last October 12 Pierpont's demeanor on the stand slant was restrained He spoke bitterly o of his treatment at the jail here an and charged that when he asked the jai jail jail- ers ens to send for his counsel severa several times the request was refused Pierpont who spoke sharply tinder un tin wi der ier cross examination said he had hac bought three ne new cars after his escape es as- I cape from the Indiana state prison He said he got in the bank ban robbery robber for lor which he served a term adding that he hid it and used it after after af af- af ter his escape Where did you keep the money I will insist on an answer Prose Pros Botkin declared Well I dont don't remember How d do m like that Pierpont told Botkin that i if ii a man even thinks of ot escaping in Indiana he is put in the hole John Dillinger was a pretty keen minded man wasn't he Mr Botkin asked Now Ill I'll say he probably was |