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I 1 ID 0 f 1 POLICE 1 SEN tr j ON INDIANA i i I t. t Officer Trips I Outlaws I D Down wn e 2 1 Police Stai Stain 4 r I I ky 3 j c t 4 H I Crash Awakens Fireman Wh WhO Spreads Spreads' Alarm Amon Among b 4 Vigilantes Vigilantes' BARELY DODOES DODGES ARR 1 State Wide State Wide Manhunt Started for Desperadoes J fly By United Press Prell WARSAW Ind April 1 hn Dillinger Americas ac ace outlaw r returned re turned to his old tampIng stamping ground today for a new raid on a ar senal and barely escaped capt capture e. e The notorious criminal wi witha ha companion companion com com- panion identified l M as Homer Van IndIana parole violator and k known own a associate as- as of at the marauding Dillinger fled southwest with a a posse posse- posse posse-cu 50 vii vii- close Upon his heels heel Dillinger appeared on the deserted streets of Warsaw earlY this mo morning morn morn- ing where he and h 8 c fronted Jud night patrol man nd former chief ot of police With automatic pistols against his sides was wa forced to lead the two d eS' eS I J to the city building and police headquarters head head- quarters The man believed to be beVan Van Meter held a awall wall while Dillinger pIcked up three bulletproof vests and two pistols from the police lockers Lets take the old boy al along mg With us so he wont won't squawk too oon Dillinger said Okay his partner said Trio Plunges DownstaIrs This was too much for The trio was making its way down downa a flight of stairs from the se second nd floor police office with Dillinger following fol- fol lowing and Van Meter leading the wa way kicked at the notorIous bandits bandit's shins behind behin l him and Continued from Pass Pare Two BAND DODGES ARREST Raid Oil Police Arsenal Nearly Results in Capture Vigilantes Rally Scorn Pue One him nger pitched forward spilling the bulletproof vests atop the theother theother other two men and an all three rolled to the fool of the stairs The noise awakened the night driver er ot of a fire ire truck which is housed Inthe in inthe the city building and he ran to the front or of the building Dillinger picked Up the bulletproof vests vest and guns and leaped for a large blue sedan se- se dan dnn which was parked at the front of oC the building closely followed by his partner Although neither Pitt nger nor the tire fire truck driver saw W any third memo her r ot of the gang it iL was believed that one was present The sedan sped away later reversed af moved away toward the southwest Vigilante Band Rallies er had already spread an alarm from the police he headquarters which brought 50 members of the Kosciusko county vigilantes to the headquarters lit In automobiles Shotguns Shot Shot- guns bristled from their cars and many were still dressIng Under the leadershIp of H. H B B. Person Per Per- son and later under Chief ot of Police PoUce Frank R R. R Lucas parties sped aped away after the outlaws One party was dispatched to the farm of Merritt near here herc where police campaigns against Dillinger and his gang have concentrated concen concen- at various times Lucas said ald he believed that Dillinger DUlin Dillin- ger had been In hiding at the Longbrake Longbrake Long Long- brake farm preceding his appearance appearance appear appear- ance here Shortly after Dillinger and his allies aUles raided the Peru and Auburn md Ind jails jaBs Longbrake was sought and found to be absent from hIs biJ farm Lucas said Pitten er who made the identification cation of the outlaw is an tion and fingerprint expert Linked With Syndicate Dillinger's return to Indiana the scene of his most reckless encounters with police came as federal department depart depart- ment of justice agents linked him with a syndicate of oC midwest bank robbers and kidnapers who until recently recently re- re made their headquarters In St St. Paul It was believed to be the first time that he p personally took part In a holdup since escapIng from the Lake county jail at Crown Point hoodwinked hood hood- winked a dozen guards with the aid ot of a carved wooden pistol and drove away to freedom with Herbert Young Young- blood a negro murder suspect ir in Sheriff Lillian Holley's own automo automo- bile Recently Dillinger was believed to have been en nearly trapped in a St Sl StPaul Paul apartment when federal agents came there to investigate and were driven away with machine gun tire Lost Machine l Guns Th The loss ot of two machine guns fro in St. St Paul was believed to have deprived de de- Dillinger er of h his favorite weapon on one whIch he is accused of hay have log ing used on Policeman William WilHam J. J of East Chicago md Ind three months ago as the peace officer blocked the exit of Dillinger and John Hamilton Hamilton- his chief lieutenant from Crom the bank Dillinger was awaiting trial for tor murder when he escaped from Crown Point Today's jail raid was typically a 8 Dillinger gesture After being re- re the Lima Ohio ja jail l by companions whose escape from the Michigan gan City md Ind state he had engineered Dillinger r flouted the state police and law en en- agencIes ot of his home state by arming his gang from police stores in Auburn and Peru Several mid midwest west bank robberies were charged to the gang and the hunt became so 10 intense that Dillinger r rand and three allies and their women corn com drove to Tucson ArIz where the they were captured Aides Aldu ConvIcted Russell Clark Harry PIerpont and Charles Mackley stood trial In Lima Ohio and two o of them were sentenced sen- sen to die for the killing of Sheri Sher- if J Jesse ess O. O Sarber of Lima who fell feU during the raid in which Dillinger WItS freed Federal a agents ts meanwhile prepared pre pre- pared today to remove Evelyn Frachetti suspected of being Dillinger's Dil- Dil lingers linger's sweetheart to St. St Paul to face charges of harborIng a criminal She Li is alleged to have been present in the St. St Paul apartment In which Dillinger was nearly trap trapped d. d One of his new companions of the bandit syndicate Eugene Green died from rom bullet wounds suffered In an encounter with federal agents Ham ilton also is accused of murder Chi cago police have a standing order to shoot to kill for the gang since the killing of a Chicago police sergeant who sought to look over automobile Judge Frees Jurors On Contempt Charge CROWN POINT md Ind April 13 JP Judge William J. J MUrray today purged of contempt the six grand jurors who criticised him in their report on John Dillinger's break from the Crown Point Jail The contempt citation was dismissed dis dis- missed by Judge Murray after the six men had tiled filed an answer in whIch they d disavowed avowed any Intention of casting castin aspersions on the court The grand jurors had criticised the judge for failing to order Dillinger's Dil- Dil lingers linger's tr transfer to th the state prison for Cor safekeeping pending trial |
