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...Purvis, 56, wiry (about 130 lbs.) South Carolina lawyer who joined the FBI in 1927, chased car thieves in Texas, pursued minor thugs in Oklahoma, finally became chief investigator for the Chicago area and made the headlines when he bungled a 1934 Wisconsin showdown with Public Enemy John Dillinger (G-men shot two innocent men, killing one), but got Dillinger three months later in a trap outside a Chicago theater, also led the posse that shot down Pretty Boy Floyd; by his own hand (pistol); in Florence...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...
...pregnant white woman, Parker was abducted by 15 to 20 masked men only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from...
Nixon's first gain: warm applause from the Pilgrims, a stilling of press criticism down to Beaverbrook press notes about his "Hollywood-style G-men" (he had two Secret Service men with him), about the "22-ft." length of his Cadillac...