Show I Car eer of Public Enemy No 1 Part Part 1 II El I j j A tK I I lb 3 J 1 LI r 44 I 11 I i i L LI I P I i Am Q C 4 s 's I J GUNMEN RAID OHIO JAI I.- I. NoW wanted dead or alive for a string of desperate desperate des des- crimes and brazen jailbreaks John was considered a good boy until he was arrested in 1924 for robbing an aged merchant in his home town Art An appeal was made for clemency on his past good record and Governor Paul V. V McNutt of Indiana In- In Indiana diana paroled him last May from his 10 to year 21 sentence in the Indiana state pe penitentiary He was freed to help care for his aged father in the Dil- Dil linger home near Mooresville md Ind Somehow Dil- Dil found more exciting things to do He was arrested at Da Dayton ton 0 September 22 as a bank robbery robbery rob rob- bery suspect Four days later ten convicts escaped from the Indiana penitentiary and material found in Dillinger's possession strengthened a suspicion that he had plotted the break brcak Instead of being returned returned re- re turned to Indiana however le Ie was held in the couri- couri 11 I It t ty j jail n at L m mO O for a On On October 12 atrio a atrio trio of gunmen called on Sheriff Sherif Jess Sarber and demanded the desperados desperado's release Asked for their credentials they produced pistols When Sarber reached for his gun they shot him Mrs Sarber and anda a deputy rushed in but they were shoved in a cell and the trio departed with Dillinger leaving the sheriff lying e cm the Jail floor John Dillinger was free but not for l long ng |