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...Death but Jail was the reward of Desperado John Dillinger's favorite girl, Evelyn Frechette. In St. Paul last week she was convicted of harboring the fugitive, was sentenced to two years in jail. Also jailed was Dr. Clayton May who for three days treated Dillinger's wounds, failed to report to the police...
Thus did he rebuke newsreel audiences who lately applauded Desperado John Dillinger on theatre screens in Washington. Chicago and elsewhere. More significant was his promise of additional facilities to the Department of Justice. Demanding 200 more agents and fast cars armed with machine guns, Attorney General Cummings recently said: "If we had been equipped with planes or even fast motor cars . . . John Dillinger would have been captured...
...Democrat not renominated in last week's Indiana primaries was Robert G. Estill, Attorney for Lake County. His opponent, Fred A. Egan, circulated the notorious picture of Attorney Estill with his arm around John Dillinger before the desperado's jail break at Crown Point, a picture which Attorney General Cummings in Washington denounced as showing "a complete lack of sense of responsibility or propriety." The citizens of Lake County did the rest...
Sheriffs, deputies, policemen, constables, state troopers, Federal agents, some 10,000 strong, were last week led a merry chase by Desperado John Dillinger and Dillinger's ghost...
...Chicago, another member of the gang, Homer van Meter, was "identified." In another suburb three policemen overtook a car, were promptly covered by machine guns and disarmed by men who they were "positive" were members of the gang. "It was Dillinger, all right." said one. But where Desperado Dillinger was or how he would strike next or even whether he yet lived no man knew...