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1934 newspaper JOHN DILLINGER ESCAPES frm CROWN POINT JAIL using FAKE WOODEN GUN
1934 newspaper JOHN DILLINGER ESCAPES from the CROWN POINT (Indiana) JAIL using a FAKE WOODEN GUN + John Hamilton also sought- inv # 8D-513
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theLos Angeles Examiner(CA) datedMarch 5, 1934.This original newspaper contains front page and inside page news coverage of the ESCAPE ofoutlaw JOHN DILLINGER from the Crown Point (IN) jail using a a fake wooden gun to bluff his way out. A "shoot to kill" order was issued for his capture by law enforcement. There is a front page photo of Dillinger Gang member JOHN HAMILTON who was suspected of helping Dillinger to escape from the jail.
Lots of text, photos, and coverage of John Dillinger's storied escape from the Crown Point jail by using a fake wooden gun to bluff his way out.
On January 25, 1934, Dillinger and his gang were captured inTucson, Arizona.Dillinger was extradited to Indiana and escorted back by Matt Leach,the Chief of the Indiana State Police. He was taken toLake Countyjail inCrown Point, Indiana, and jailed for charges for the murder of police officer William O'Malley, who was killed during a Dillinger gangbank robberyinEast Chicagoon January 15, 1934.
Local police boasted to area newspapers that the jail was escape-proof and had posted extra guards as a precaution. However, on Saturday, March 3, 1934, Dillinger was able to escape during morning exercises with fifteen other inmates. Dillinger produced apistol, catching deputies and guards by surprise, and was able to leave the premises without firing a shot. Almost immediately afterwards conjecture began whether the gun Dillinger displayed was real or not. According to Deputy Ernest Blunk, Dillinger had escaped using a real pistol. FBI files, on the other hand, indicate that Dillinger used a carved fake pistol. Sam Cahoon, atrusteewhom Dillinger took hostage in the jail, also believed Dillinger had carved the gun, using a razor and some shelving in his cell. In another version, according to an unpublished interview with Dillinger's attorney,Louis Piquett, investigator Art O'Leary claimed to have snuck the gun in himself.
John "Red" Hamilton(August 27, 1898– April 26, 1934) was a Canadian criminal and bank robber active in the 1920s–1930s, most notably as an associate ofJohn Dillinger. He is best known for his lingering death and secret burial after being mortally wounded during a robbery.
Hamilton, himself shot twice during the East Chicago robbery, was left in the care of his girlfriend Pat Cherrington and underworld physicianJoseph Moran, while Dillinger and the others headed toTucsonwhere they were apprehended by the authorities. After this incident, for a short time, Hamilton was at the top of the public enemies list, until Dillinger managed to escape from Crown Point, and mustered a new gang that consisted of Hamilton,Homer Van Meter,Tommy Carroll,Eddie Green, andBaby Face Nelson.
Hamilton subsequently accompanied the gang on a string of lucrative, but chaotic armed robberies. On March 6, three days after Dillinger's escape, the gang robbed the Security National Bank & Trust Company inSioux Falls, South Dakota. In the robbery, a motorcycle cop named Hale Keith was severely wounded when Nelson shot him down through a plate glass window. A week later, the gang robbed theFirst National BankinMason City, Iowa. Hamilton was wounded yet again– shot in the shoulder by an elderly judge across the street, who also managed to wound Dillinger.
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