DESPERADO IS
SLAIN SUNDAY
NIGHT, CHICAGO
Bandit Walks Calmly from
Theatre Into Glisten
ing Trap of Guns
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Dillinger's loot totaled almost a
quarter of a million dollars and
many had died by his guns.
ARRANGING FTNERAL
MOORESVILLE. Indiana, July
23.—John Dillinger. Sr., respected
farmer here, went about arranging
for the burial of hts son calmly
as he had awaited the day he knew j
was coming when bullets would |
end his son's life. He soon recov
ered when informed his son had
been shot. He was momentarily!
shaken but regained his composure I
and prepared to bury his son beside !
his mother.
VIGOROUS DRIVE ON
CHICAGO, 111., July 23—A vlg
oous drive to exterminate all Dil
llnger hoodlums has been launched
as the controversy began as to
who tipped off Dilllnger. The
Chicago police said he was lured
to his death by a woman in a*
red dress. Other reports were that
an attractive woman and a man
escort are under a protection guard
at a hotel from Dlllinger hench-1
men after luring him to death in ]
consideration for a $5,000 reward.
Wanted dead or alive for a string
of desperate crimes and brazen
Jail-breaks, John Dlllinger was
cons'dered a “good boy" until he
was arrested in 192* for robbing an
aged merchant in his home town.
An appeal was made for clemency
on his past good record, and Gov.
