Show BULLETS w VIf JUSTI JUSTICE 1 lly REX ILEX COLLIER 1030 1036 by the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc ONt rou I M WOUW FELL COWLEYS ys CAR CARS I CEMENT I j tyAS GASOLINE O STA D 0 Dt I t I 1 1 I 1 I S o HOLDS BODY c ct t t c fE C CAR W- W Wt t j I I t 1 1 I II v i H C I I S 1 C CEMENT M NT CULVERT Cl RT i i e q OF I I 1 i DOW BODY PARK AREA I II I Diagram of Battleground Between G Men len Nelson Ills Wire Wife and Chase BABY FACE NELSON HAT the the gangster gangster always THAT T has the advantage over the th law Jaw enforcement officer inthe inthe in intha the tha matter ot of gun pIa play is Illustrated perfectly by the case of George Baby Daby Face Nelson christened Lester E D Gulls Gillis who murdered three G men before they ended his kill crazy career at the th Battle of Darrington Barrington Some critics of ot J Edgar Hoovers Hoover's special agents have hav claimed the sharp shooting r F B I men exe exe- executed executed executed tome some members of the Dil linger linger gang without giving them a chance It If there can be any just criticism ot of the agents In the Nelson case it Is that tat they gave Baby Face too too much chance This thrice paroled gangster shot down special Agent W Carter Baum Daum near the Little Bohemia Inn Mer- Mer Mercer Mer Mercer WIs In the most cold blooded fashion Baum Daum the F B D I flies fUes show did not have any opportunity to defend himself himsel Nelson ordered John Paul Chase to open fire with an automatic rifle on two F FBI D B I agents whose official statue statu he only suspected That was as just before belore the fatal Darrington Barrington battle He H turned a machine machin rue gun on In Inspector Samuel P Cowley and Special Special Special cial Agent IL E Hollis as they were getting out Jut of their car to demand his surrender after hav hay havIng having ing Lag overtaken him near BarrIngton Ill III It was only after the deadly bul bullets bullets bullets lets from Nelson s a sand and Chases Chase's guns were pumping Into his body that Cowley turned his own machine gun on them fatally them fatally wounding Nelson During the 70 mile an hour chase which Immediately preceded thIs battle batlle Inspector Cowley had ample opportunity to fire his machine gun at Nelson a s car Cowley apparently thought of ot the possibility that the man and woman with Nelson were innocent citizens by Nelson in his flight The inside story of o gunplay in inthe inthe the Nelsen case goes back baek to the cold night of April 22 1934 when Agent Baum Daum Agent J C Newman and Constable Carl Chrls Christensen ensen left the raided Little Bohemia inn to investigate a disturbance re- re reported re reported ported from a nearby farm tarm The officers drove to the th farm farmand farmand farmand and pulled alongsIde an automobile parked without lights in lu the drive drive- driveway driveway wn way The Tir constable had recognized the car as one belonging to a res- res resident res resident ident of the community As the agents car stopped e a eman aman aman man man later identified as Nelson jumped out of the parked automo automo- automobile automobile automobile bile and ordered the officers out Without waiting for them to com com- comply comply ply Nelson began firing at them blank point point blank blank with an a pistoL Baum Daum was killed instantly New Newman Newman Newman man was knocked unconscious by bya bya bya a bullet that grazed hIs bis forehead Christensen also was wu rendered WI- WI unconscious un unconscious conscious by a serious bullet wound Newman recovered his senses censes in time to fire several futile shots at Nelson who disappeared in la the darkness Hoover assigned Inspector Cow Cow- CowIe Cowley Cow ley ley Ie one of his most trusted aides to the job of hunting down Dillinger nab Baby Face Nelson and other members of their gangIn gangIn gang In the course of ot thi this investigation investigation tion tion a hotel keeper at Lake Geneva Wi Wis told F B D L Agents he ho sus sus- suspected sus- sus suspected suspected that son some previous guests lit at his hotel botel were members of ot the Dillinger gang Cowley with the operation co-operation of the hotel man man assigned two agents to take a room in the hotel keepers keeper home and await the return of ot Nel Nel- Nelson Nelson son Ion and Chase He lIe stationed other agents age in and about the hotel dis- dis disguised die dis disguised guised as employees The surveillance surveillance lance continued uneventfuL uneventfully tor f o r weeks Then Then on the afternoon of ot Novem Novem- November November November ber 27 1034 in la the absence of ot the hotel man man the tho agents at the tha house saw a Vs V V- V sedan stop in front from of tile the house bouse To T men and a woman were in It it The visitors whose identities could not be determined b by the tho agents left quickly alter getting no Immediate response to their knock The agents telephoned the Chi Chicago cago office of the F B D L I about the mysterious visitors giving the license number of their car III AJ As the car eonta containing this trio passed through Lake Geneva a few moments later an agent on assign assign- assignment assignment assignment ment there recognized Nelson in the drivers driver's seat and also noted the tag numbers He too phoned to Chicago Immediately upon receipt of this second caUl call Cowley Got ot in touch by telephone with two agents who were on a special assignment on the outskirts of Chicago directing them to proceed at once toward Lake Geneva over the Northwest highway and to keep close watch for a V 8 sedan containing two men and a n woman and bearing Illinois tags number Cowley said he and Agent Hollis foils would follow fellow at once with machine gun and shot shot- shotgun shotgun shotgun gun and would endeavor to over over- overtake overtake tal take e them on the highway The first pair of agents were armed only with pistols They were in a decrepit coupe they had been using in their under cover assign assignment assignment meet ment About five miles east cast of Barring Barrington Barrington Barrington ton Ill Iii these agents saw headed toward them a V 8 B sedan contain containIng containing lag Ing two men and a woman and bearing Illinois tags only the last three numbers of ot which they were able to catch The numbers were They turned around in the road sharply In order to follow this car and identify identity the tags definitely As they wheeled Nelson became suspicious that he was being fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed and he too turned around in the highway heading back to- to toward toward to toward ward Lake Gen Geneva va Satisfied ap- ap apparently apparently ap apparently that he was the object of by the he men in the coupe Nelson suddenly swerved complete complete- completely ly around once onca more sped up and sought to compel the coupe to pull up at the sid side of the road The agents found themselves look look- looking looking ing down the muzzle of an auto auto- automatic automatic automatic matic rifle rille held beld by Chase who was seated in the back of Nelsons Nelson's car Instead of Jf obeying Nelson s simultaneous si- si simultaneous si simultaneous demand that they halt bait the agents sped up and swerved down the highway As they started away Chase began firing at them through the windshield of ot Nelsons Nelson's car Shortly aft a after f t e r I this encounter Cowley and HoUis Hollis proceeding from ChIcago met Nelson s car on the highway They turned around and took up the pursuit Nelson Immediately stepped on the gas and tried to outdIstance Cowleys Cowley's car which was a high high- powered high powered sedan After a short and furious chase during which Nel Nel- Nelson's Nelson's sons son's car began to overheat badly from loss of ot water Nelson jammed on the brakes and veered into a driveway of ot the North side ide park parkin parkin parkin in Barrington Darrington Cowley s a car skidded to a stop about feet teet ahead In the meantime Nelson Chase and Mrs Mra Nelson had bad jumped out of their car the latter running and throwing herself into a ditch Nelson and Chase got behind their car and leveled an automatic rifle and a machine gun over the hood As Cowley and Hollis emerged from their car Cowley with a machine gun and Hollis with a shot shot- shotgun shotgun gun Nelson and Cha Chase e turned loose a deadly barrage of lead Hollis leaped behind a pole and returned the fire tire with his 8 shotgun He was killed instantly by a shot in the head bead as 81 he aimed his shot shot- shotgun shotgun shot gun gun Cowley although ti hit f t several I times b by machine gun slugs and while sinking to the ground from andI I his wounds managed to empty hi his machine i gun U D at his bis assailants I Mortally wounded he be crumpled to the ground Nelson and Chase ran over to Cowleys Cowley's car and started oft off in it it Cowie Cowley identified himself to per per- persons persons persons sons who soon loon rushed to the scene Taken to a hospital he asked that agents be rushed to him from the Chicago office His Ills chief concern was to confirm coD rm to his men before I he be died that It was Baby Face Nelson Neison with wiLh whom he had battled He died several hours after gasping his story to his grim faced agents I IA A telephone call to an undertaker under under- undertaker undertaker taker made by a mysterious wom wom- woman woman an an who hung up quickly led Cowleys Cowley's men to a ditch near a cemetery la In Niles Center n a ear e a r Chicago where the tho remains of of Ba- Ba Bab Baby Ba Baby aI I b by race Nelson were nude found found and torn b by 17 bullets I Another gangster h had a d bee b e e n a crossed oft off the list list- list at the cost of the lives ot of three men G-men erlo I |