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Last week a jury at Lima, Ohio condemned Harry Pierpont to the electric chair for shooting the town sheriff in freeing Desperado John Dillinger from Lima's jail last October. Last week in Crown Point, Ind., Deputy Sheriff Blunk and Turnkey Cahoon were arrested, charged with deliberately aiding Desperado Dillinger to bluff his way out of Crown Point's jail fortnight ago with a wooden gun. Last week in Chicago police, chasing automobiles believed to contain Desperado Dillinger, were twice halted by machine gun fire. But these alarms and excursions were less serious to many a politician than...
...Washington Attorney General Cummings pointed disgustedly at a newspicture of Desperado Dillinger clubbily grouped with Sheriff Holley and Crown Point's Prosecutor Estill (see cut). The photograph was taken six weeks ago when Dillinger was first brought back to Crown Point's jail after his capture in Arizona. Snorted "General" Cummings...
...shoot my way out," sneered Desperado John Dillinger when after his ignominious capture in Tucson, Ariz., he was brought back to Indiana and locked up in Crown Point's jail to be tried for murder (TIME, Feb. 5). Sheriff Lillian Holley, mistress of Crown Point's escape-proof jail, also made a promise: "I know he's a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him." The sheriff meant to keep her promise, but Dillinger's promise was a shrewd piece of bluff. For weeks he sat in his cell doing nothing but whittle...
Died. Wilbur Underhill, 33, desperado, leader of the sensational Kansas penitentiary break last Memorial Day (TIME, June 12); of gunshot wounds inflicted by peace officers who cornered him last fortnight in Shawnee, Okla. (TIME, Jan. 8); in the Oklahoma penitentiary at McAlester...
...whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances with this desperado. The courtroom bristled with armed men. Every spectator, every lawyer was searched before entering. Even the judge had a bodyguard. It was Harvey J. Bailey who had engineered the Memorial Day break from the Kansas State Penitentiary. It was allegedly Harvey J. Bailey who poured a volley of machine gun bullets into...