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Gallery Package - The last of the Great Depression Gangsters: the fall of John Dillinger


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Driving from Indiana to a boy scout training school at Kenosha Wisconsin. This driver took no chances of being suspected of harboring John Dillinger. 26th April 1934
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John Dillinger Sr the father of the famous gangster
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John Dillinger America's Public Enemy No 1was shot and killed by police as he was leaving the biograph Cinema in Chicago, after having eluded the police for months. He had had his face altered by a surgical operation. Image shows Dillinger on the floor of a police patrol as he was taken to the mortuary after he had been killed.<br>US July 30th 1934.
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Left to right: Captain Timothy O'Neil Sergeants Peter Sopsic Walter Conroy and Glen Stretch of South Chicago Police, took part in the slaying of John Dillinger outside a Chicago Cinema. They were out to avenge the death of one of their comrades by the outlaw in a bank raid. 30th July 1934
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John Dillinger Sr with his family outside the theatre way they are doing a show on the famous gangster John Dillinger
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John Dillinger Sr, Father of the Outlaw who was killed in Chicago July 23, and three other members of his family, all of whom are shown outside a Theater in Indainapolis where they are appearing. They give the audience some stories of Dillinger's life. Left to right: John Dillinger Sr Mrs Audrey Hancock sister of the dead bandit and the woman who reared him Emmet Hancock husband of Mrs Hancock and Hubert Dillinger Half brother of the dead bandit.
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In this lobby of the Little Bohemia Resort in Wisconsin near Mercer, John Dillinger and his outlaw pals lived for three days, holding the resort operators as virtually prisoners. Dillinger and his pals, including three women companions, played cards in this lobby and indulged in the other amusements of the little lodge until they were routed by Federal Agents April 23. Two men were killed and four were wounded in the gunplay as the desperadoes got away.
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John Dillinger's sweetheart takes pauper's oath Detroit, January 30 Evelyn Frechette 27 sweetheart of the slain John Dillinger shown in US Commisioner's court here when she took a pauper's oath which releases her from the Federal Detention Farm at Milan Michigan. Where she was sentenced two years ago for harboring the notorious gangster. She said she intends to Go Straight the pauper's oath was necessary to release her from payment of a large fine.
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The blood soaked seat of the car abandoned by the Dillinger gang a few miles South of St Paul Minnesota April 23. After their running gunfight with three Dakota County Deputy Sheriffs and a Hastings Patrolman. The bullet hole may be seen on the right side of the seat and the blood there lead officials to believe one of the gangsters had been seriously injured. 1st May 1934
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Halting all cars Indiana Highway Police search for the Robber Killer John Dillinger, after his sensational break from the Lake County Jail at Crown Point Indiana March 3. Many hours after the desperado had vanished, police nets sieved the flow of motorists in hope of finding their quarry. 3rd April 1934
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A photograph of the exterior of the house in Chicago where John Dillinger lived prior to his death near a Chicago Theater. Here, the outlaw, who had changed his appearance with the aid of a plastic surgeon, stayed only to make frequent trips to the Neighborhood Theater where he was killed. 25th July 1934
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The police officers who aided in the capture of the notrious Dillinger gang in Tucson Arizona recently are shown above with five sub-machine guns, bullet proof vests, revolvers and ammunition taken from members of the gang of Bank Robbers and escaped convicts. From left to right standing Detective Dallas Ford ; Chief of Police Gus Wellard ; Harry Foley ; Frank Eyman ; Captain Jay Smith ; Chet Sherman ; James Herron . From left to right kneeling Milo Walker ; K Mullaney ; Earl Nolan . 28th January 1934
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' Merry Christmas Old Pal ' was the greeting on a card attached to a spray of holly cones evergreen, placed on the grave of John Dillinger, Desperado, in Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis, Indiana. There was nothing to indicate who had placed it there. 1934
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JOHN DILLINGER.<br>American bankrobber, d. 1934. Dillinger (wearing open vest) being led from jail to a courtroom at Crown Point, Indiana, on Feb. 9, 1934, for arraignment on the charge of killing a policeman in East Chicago, Indiana.
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JOHN DILLINGER (1903-1934). <br>American outlaw.
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JOHN DILLINGER (1903-1934). <br>American bank robber. Dillinger (wearing open vest) surrounded by guards at his arraignment in court in Crown Point, Indiana, on Feb. 9, 1934, on the charge of killing a policeman in East Chicago, Indiana.
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Nine different portraits released by the FBI of outlaw John Dillinger who was shot dead by US agents of the Department of Justice in 1934.<br><br>
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John Herbert Dillinger (right) American gangster arrested on 30 January 1934
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John Dillinger, American gangster. RV-339417
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These weapons of John Dillinger, apparently dumped into Lake Michigan after his death were recovered and identified by authorities as the trappings of the outlaw. The machine gun, bullet proof vest and the automatic were the stock and trade of Dillinger during his career.<br>26th July 1934
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Law's Last Session with Dillinger<br>Taking the fingerprints of the slain John Dillinger, Chicago police experts are shown here around the gunman's body in the City morgue as they set at rest forever any rumours that the man killed was not the notorious outlaw.<br>
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Front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer - 23rd July 1934<br>Headline tells of the death of outlaw John Dillinger who was shot dead by US agents of the Department of Justice.
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One of the most sensational developments in the war on John Dillinger ( America's Public Enemy No 1 ) was the arrest in Chicago of John J ( Boss ) McLaughlin - old time political boss and suspected ally of Dillinger - he is charged with conspiracy in the kidnapping of Edward G Brewer ( wealthy St Paul brewer ) who was ransomed for £40,000 - " You are dreaming " McLaughlin told the police when they arrested him and his 17 year old son John - the police believe that behind McLaughlin is Dillinger and his gang - photo shows Boss McLaughlin<br>April 30th 1934
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Crowds fill Chicago County Morgue to see the dead body of outlaw John Dillinger who was shot dead by US agents of the Department of Justice.<br>23rd July 1934
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John Dillinger in prison<br>1934
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John Dillinger as he travelled by air under heavy escort en route to Indiana to answer charges of murdering a policeman in a bank hold up.<br>25th April 1934
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John Dillinger being arrested
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John Dillinger<br>Get Dillinger Dead or Alive
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