Show Men Form Circle To Prevent Escape of i Dillinger in Wisconsin Cr Great at Police Net Spread for 4 HUI Hundreds of Miles Around n Mercer FIGHT TO FINISH SEEN I Authorities Fear Desperado Has Slipped Through By Associated Press I CHICAGO April The 26 law Yi with eager han hands s. s slammed to i hut the stable door Thursday The John Dillinger r IntI was gone A great circle of men blockIng block block- In Ing highways s 's and stopping all suspicious sus sus- r appearing persons was swung for hundreds of oC miles around Mercer Wis to prevent pre the escape of the gunman yet even as the circle v tightened th there re came reports that b t the thc desperado had slipped through Federal men men burning under criticism cism were massing somewhere in the vicinity of oC St S1 Paul believing Dillinger Dillin- Dillin ger to be bc in that neighborhood and that a fight to the finish with ith him was imminent From other sections of oC the countr country lever however as far Car south as Virginia came reports that Dillinger had been seen cen Most or of the reports were dis dis- proved ro One or two however remained re re- question marks ThurS Thursday ia I Charged to Agents Residents o of Mercer charged the federal agents with bungling the thc attempt at at- tempt to capture Dillinger at the thc Little Bohemia resort near that town Sund Sunday night To their demands that Melvin H H. H Purvis head of oC the Chip Chi Chi- p t. t cago office oJ of the lureau- lureau or gatlon resign his post there was no reply Purvis said sald I never corn com r merit ment on thin things s of that kind Mercer citizens charged that the federal handl handling ng of oC the case had been stupid and reckless Two men men- one o of them a federal agent were killed and four others wounded in inthe inthe the started ill effort to bag Dillinger Sunday Another denunciation or of the federal men came from Commissioner Oscar G. G Olander of the Michigan depart ment of public safety He charged d dat at Lansing that agents dad failed to toI I cooperate with the Michigan state police poUce and that their failure probably proba proba- bly was responsible for the criminals criminal's escape when he passed through MIch Mich- igan last week He accused them of oC refusing to permit Sergeant Fred Rune Kune of oC the state police to attend a Dillinger conference called to map out details or of the hunt for lor the des des- Sec Solution Although the government call tally wants the million dollar gangster gang gang- r ter ster only for or the comparatively minor crime of transporting a stolen automobile from one state to another an an- other Purvis disclosed late j day night the belief belie of Investigators that the downfall of Dillinger and hiS II men may definitely clear up the abduction o of Edward G G. Bremer 51 Paul banker p Federal operatives believe that Alin Al AI vin in Karpis o of Chicago Fred Barker and the latter's brother Arthur Doe Doc Barker who have been iden iden- tilled through fin fingerprints in the Bremer remer snatch ere with Wooden Gun Dillinger when they shot their way out of the government trap at the Little LillIe Bohemia resort Homer Homel Van Meter John Hamilton the first lieutenant or of the Dillinger er gang Torn Tom in my Carroll Canoll and Ge GeOrge rge Baby Face c are reputed to have been the k i other marksmen with when hen the federal raid was made I Belief Belic persisted in sonic quarters quartel's t or at least some of his chief was henchmen hiding out in inthe inthe the Twin Cities st. st Paul and Minne- Minne IJ p apolis but despite this reports that the thc ar had been sighted t poured in from all sections of the I country Tips Prove Useless f Alert to pass up no information the authorities acted on such Ups tips without success Police at Staunton Va acting under Instructions from the department of justice boarded nn an eastbound Chesapeake Ohio train c n Pact pur Two Army of Agents r I Closing In on Outlaw Net Flung for Hundreds I of f Miles to Prevent Dil- Dil linger Esca Escape pc Continued tram from Put Pare One on Information that Dillinger mIght be aboard He The authorities at Hammond md Ind thought that one of two gunmen who d a motorist there late Wednesday night might be Dillinger But if i it were van he again The motorist Michael Madura- Madura vho was released said that alter after the gunmen had him end and taken his car th they y wrecked it but proceeded pro pro- to commandeer another and escaped One ot of them limped and when he asked him it if he were Dillinger Dillinger Dillin- Dillin ger the kidnaper r said Never mind about get back in the car car Meanwhile one ot of Dillinger's pals Harry Pierpont condemned to death for lor slaying Sheriff Jess Jes Sarber at Lima 0 last October when Dillinger Dil- Dil linger was delIvered from lest Jail a point in his legal skIrmish to escape the electric chair Chief Justice Carl V. V or of orthe the Ohio supreme court notified the lower court at Lima that he had disallowed disallowed dis- dis allowed Pierpont's bill ot of exceptions on an 10 affidavit ot of bias and prejudIce The bill was directed against Judge E. E E. E of Lima who presided at Pierpont's trial |