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...ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last July.* In the Stoll case he was given the Indianapolis area...
Next afternoon a quartet opened the burial service by singing "God Will Take Care of Him." Father John Dillinger sat motionless in shirtsleeves. The Rev. Charles Fillmore, baptizer of Desperado Dillinger, preached: "I glory that this whole family has had faith in God ... a God of mercy ... so necessary in these days of vindictiveness and hatred." The quartet closed the service with: "We Say Good Night Down Here and Good Morning Up There...
...gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado John Dillinger...
...newspictures. His sandy hair had been dyed black. He had grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through the head, one near...
...Hancock is the sister of Desperado John Dillinger, for whose arrest the Department of Justice last week posted a $10,000 reward. Only Federal charge against Dillinger: violation of the Dyer Act (interstate transportation of a stolen...