The John Dillinger Chronology
by Chris Hegle
May 1933 through July 1934
May 22, 1933
Monday
Released from Indiana State Prison at Michigan City; sentence began September 16, 1924
June 24, 1933
Saturday
Attempts to rob Marshall Field Thread Mill in Monticello, Indiana, with William Shaw
June 29, 1933
Thursday
Robs sandwich shop with William Shaw on East 28th Street, Indianapolis
July 15, 1933
Saturday
Arrives in Muncie, Indiana, to meet Harry Copeland, then drives to Daleville, Indiana, to case the
Commercial Bank of Daleville
July 17, 1933
Monday 12:45 p.m.
Robs the Commercial Bank of Daleville with Harry Copeland and Hilton Crouch
BANDIT CAR: Chevrolet coupe
TAKE: $3,500
July 30, 1933
Monday
With Copeland, visits whorehouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana
August 4, 1933
Friday
Robs First National Bank of Montpelier, Indiana, with Copeland and Crouch
BANDIT CAR: Blue Dodge
TAKE: $6,700
August 14, 1933
Monday noon
Robs Citizens National Bank of Bluffton, Ohio, with Copeland and Crouch
BANDIT CAR: Green sedan
TAKE: $6,000
Sept. 6, 1933
Wednesday
Robs Massachusetts Avenue State Bank in Indianapolis with Copeland and Crouch
BANDIT CAR: Desoto
TAKE: $24,000
Sept. 15, 1933
Friday
Has his 1933 Essex Terraplane repaired at 3034 Lawrence Avenue, Chicago
Sept. 22, 1933
Friday
Captured in Dayton, Ohio, at the home of Mary Longnaker
Sept. 23, 1933
Saturday
Transferred to Allen County Jail, Lima, Ohio
Sept. 26, 1933
Tuesday 1:30 p.m.
Indiana State Prison at Michigan City Jailbreak.
ESCAPEES: Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, Edward Shouse, Walter Dietrich, John Burns, James Jenkins, Joseph Fox, John Hamilton, James Clark
*Machine Gun Kelly apprehended in Memphis
Sept. 29, 1933
Friday
Michigan City escapee James Clark arrested in Hammond, Indiana; Dillinger writes a letter to his
father from the Lima jail
Sept. 30, 1933
Saturday
Michigan City escapee James Jenkins shot and killed in Beanblossom, Indiana, by townspeople. Local resident Herbert McDonald wounded in the arm
Oct. 8, 1933
Sunday
Giants beat the Senators four games to one in the World Series
Oct. 12, 1933
Thursday
Pierpont, Makley and Clark enter the Lima jail and free Dillinger, Pierpont killing Sheriff Jesse Sarber in the process. Copeland, Hamilton and Shouse stand guard outside. After freeing Dillinger, the gang travels to Leipsic,Ohio,Pierpont's home, celebrates Pierpont's birthday the following day
Oct. 14, 1933
Saturday
Robs the Auburn, Indiana, police station arsenal with Pierpont and Walter Dietrich
TAKE: One Thompson, two .38 revolvers, one .30-caliber Springfield rifle, one shotgun, one Colt .45, one .44 Smith & Wesson, a Spanish .45, one German Luger, three bulletproof vests, and 1,245 rounds of ammunition
Oct. 21, 1933
Saturday
Robs the Peru, Indiana, police station arsenal with Pierpont and Dietrich
TAKE: Two Thompsons, six bulletproof vests, two sawed-off shotguns, four .38 police specials, two .30.30 Winchesters
October 23, 1933
Monday
Robs Central National Bank of Greencastle, Indiana, with Pierpont, Makley, Clark, Copeland,
Hamilton, and either Hilton Crouch or Leslie Homer
BANDIT CAR: Black Studebaker
TAKE: $75,000
*Baby Face Nelson robs the First National Bank
of Brainerd, Minnesota, of $32,000 with Tommy Carroll, Homer Van Meter, John Paul Chase, and Charles Fisher
Oct. 26, 1933
Thursday
The governor of Indiana calls up the National Guard; armored cars with mounted machine guns on 24-hour duty in Indianapolis
Late Oct. 1933
Johnnie meets Evelyn Frechette in North Side
Chicago nightclub
Nov. 11, 1933
Saturday
Police attempt to arrest Tommy Carroll in Minneapolis on suspicion of participating in the Brainerd holdup. Escaping barefooted, he leaves behind $1,600 in cash, a rifle, a machine gun, and a shotgun
Nov. 15, 1933
Wednesday
After contracting ringworm at the Lima jail, Dillinger seeks treatment from Dr. Charles Eye in Chicago. Informant Arthur McGinnis notifies police, but Dillinger and Frechette escape trap
Nov. 19, 1933
Sunday
Harry Copeland arrested at Harlem and North avenues, Chicago, and returned to prison
Nov. 20, 1933
Monday
3p.m.
Robs American Bank and Trust Company in Racine, Wisconsin, with Pierpont, Makley, Clark, Hamilton, and Leslie Homer
BANDIT CAR: Black Buick
WOUNDED: Sgt. Wilbur Hansen
H.J. Graham, cashier (arm)
TAKE: $27,000
Nov. 24, 1933
Friday
Leslie Homer arrested at LaSalle and Ohio streets in Chicago
Nov. 30, 1933
Thursday
Baby Face Nelson and his wife, Helen Gillis, enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner with Homer Van Meter and Marie Comforti at the home of H.S. Lebman in San Antonio, Texas. The Nelsons leave for San Francisco on Dec. 11
*Nude body of Verne Miller found in Detroit; back of his skull crushed in
Dec. 11, 1933
Monday
Tommy Carroll engages in gun battle with police in San Antonio, Texas. Detective H.C. Perrow is slain
Dec. 14, 1933
Thursday
John Hamilton kills Sgt. William T. Shanley in a North Broadway garage, Chicago
Mid-Dec. 1933
Dillinger and Frechette drive to Daytona Beach, Florida, along with Pierpont and Mary Kinder, Russell Clark and Opal Long
Dec. 20, 1933
Wednesday
Edward Shouse captured in Paris, Illinois, and returned to Michigan City
Dec. 21, 1933
Thursday
Homer Van Meter and Charles Makley
join the gang in Daytona
Dec. 23, 1933
Saturday
Hilton Crouch apprehended at 420 Surf Street, Chicago; sentenced to 20 years for the Massachusetts Avenue Bank job
Christmas Day 1933
Monday
Dillinger fights with Frechette and orders her back to the Indian reservation in Neopit, Wisconsin
Jan. 1, 1934
midnight
Gang fires machine guns at the beach to celebrate the new year
January 1934
Billie consults with George R. Brokins, Attorney at Law, at 707 Stevens Building, Chicago, about divorcing her husband, Welton Spark, #42165, U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas
Early Jan. 1934
Makley, Clark and Opal Long leave Daytona for Tucson, Arizona, arriving on the 9th or 10th. Pierpont and Mary Kinder arrive the 16th
Jan. 6, 1934
Saturday
Michigan City escapee Walter Dietrich
captured in Bellwood, Illinois, and returned to prison
Jan. 15, 1934
Monday
Robs First National Bank of East Chicago,Indiana, with John Hamilton and unidentified man
BANDIT CAR: Blue Plymouth
WOUNDED: Hamilton; shot in right hand,losing finger, shot four times in groin
KILLED: Officer William Patrick O'Malley (By Dillinger)
TAKE: $20,000
Jan. 16, 1934
Tuesday
Bloodstained and bullet-riddled
Plymouth getaway car found at Byron Street and California Avenue,
Chicago
Jan. 17, 1934
Wednesday
Visits father in Mooresville, Indiana, with Billie
Jan. 18 or 19, 1934
With Billie Frechette, Dillinger attends the auto show at the St. Louis Municipal Auditorium. A Boston Bull Terrier Dillinger had bought for Frechette gets loose at
the show. An officer on duty at the show catches the dog and returns it to Dillinger
Jan. 21, 1934
Sunday
Arrives in Tucson with Billie
Jan. 22, 1934
Monday
The Congress Hotel, where Clark and
Makley are registered, catches fire. The two pay firemen $50 to retrieve their belongings, then relocate to a house on 927 North Second Avenue.
*In California, Baby Face Nelson buys himself a new getaway car, a Hudson sedan, issued to him under the name of James Rogers
Jan. 23, 1934
Tuesday
Browsing through detective magazines
back at the station, the firemen recognize Clark's mug shot and notify the Tucson police
*Kidnap victim Edward Bremer released
Jan. 25, 1934
Thursday
Charles Makley arrested at a radio store in downtown Tucson; Clark and Opal Long captured at the house on North Second Avenue; Pierpont and Mary Kinder apprehended on South Sixth while trying to leave town in a '34 Buick. Hours after Clark's arrest, Dillinger and Frechette
arrested at the North Avenue house
Jan. 26, 1934
Friday
Preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace C.V. Budlong, Pima County Courthouse. Bond set at $100,000 for everyone except Frechette ($5,000). Gang represented by L.A. attorney John Van Buskirk
Jan. 29, 1934
Monday evening
Dillinger flies by charter plane to Douglas, Arizona, to make American Airways connection. He leaves Douglas at 11:40 p.m., makes stops in Dallas, Fort Worth, Little Rock, Memphis and St. Louis. Lands at Midway Airport, Chicago, at 6 p.m. Jan. 30.
Jan. 30, 1934
Tuesday
Thirteen-car motorcade begins journey to Crown Point, Indiana; arrives at the Lake County Jail at 7:40 p.m.
Jan. 31, 1934
Wednesday
Louis Piquett, Esq., and Arthur O'Leary, Piquett's investigator, travel to Crown Point in an attempt to see Dillinger. Denied access, they return to Chicago
Feb. 1, 1934
Thursday
Piquett again drives to Crown Point to meet Dillinger. He is first met by Warden Lou Baker, searched, then allowed to see him
Feb. 5, 1934
Monday
Preliminary hearing before Judge William J. Murray. With 50 guards present, the shackled Dillinger is represented by Joseph Ryan, a one-armed lawyer from
Indianapolis. Unhappy with Ryan's representation, Dillinger demands to see Piquett, who subsequently replaces Ryan
Feb. 9, 1934
Friday
Dillinger is arraigned; trial set for March 12
Feb. 10, 1934
Saturday
Prosecutor Robert Estill asks Judge Murray to transfer Dillinger to Michigan City for safekeeping. The request is denied
Feb. 15, 1934
Thursday
Arthur O'Leary travels with Piquett to Crown Point and meets Dillinger for the first time
Feb. 17, 1934
Saturday
Pierpont, Makley and Clark plead not guilty to the Sarber killing. Mary Kinder is released
Mid-Feb. 1934
Arthur O'Leary conceives the idea of smuggling a wooden gun in to Dillinger
Feb. 26, 1934
Monday
Billie Frechette visits Dillinger at the Jail in Crown Point
Feb. 28, 1934
Wednesday noon
O'Leary receives the wooden gun made by a German woodworker in Chicago
March 3, 1934
Saturday
9:15 a.m.
Dillinger escapes from jail using the wooden gun; brings along accused murderer Herbert Youngblood. Dillinger steals Sheriff Lillian Holley's car and heads for Chicago
March 4-6, 1934
Rents Apt. 106 at the Santa Monica Apartments, 3252 South Girard Avenue, Minneapolis, with Billie Frechette
March 5, 1934
Monday
Sheriff Holley's car found abandoned at 1057 Ardmore, Chicago
March 6, 1934
Tuesday
Robs Security National Bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with Homer Van Meter, Eddie Green, Tommy Carroll, and Baby Face Nelson
BANDIT CAR: Green 1934 Packard
WOUNDED: Motorcycle policeman Hale Keith
TAKE: $49,500
March 7, 1934
Wednesday
As a result of driving Sheriff Holley's car from Indiana to Illinois, Dillinger violates the Dyer Act, a federal offense. FBI enters the case
March 13, 1934
Tuesday
Robs First National Bank of Mason City, Iowa, with Homer Van Meter, Eddie Green, 2:40 p.m. Tommy Carroll, Baby Face Nelson, and John Hamilton
BANDIT CAR: Buick
WOUNDED: Dillinger and Hamilton (shoulder) R. H. James, bystander (leg)
TAKE: $52,000
March 14, 1934
Wednesday
After parting ways with Dillinger in Chicago following the Crown Point escape, Herbert Youngblood is shot and killed in Port Huron, Michigan. Also killed was undersheriff Charles Cavanaugh
March 14, 1934
midnight
In need of medical attention, Dillinger and Hamilton are taken to the home of Dr. Nels
Mortensen, at 2252 Fairmount Avenue, St. Paul, by Pat Reilly, accompanied by Homer Van Meter
*In Chicago, Roger Touhy gang member Basil Banghart receives 99-year sentence for the John Factor kidnapping
March 16, 1934
Friday
Dillinger and Billie arrive in Chicago to meet with Piquett. Piquett being unavailable, they meet with O'Leary and discuss Billie's wish to obtain a divorce from her imprisoned husband so that she and Dillinger can marry
March 18, 1934
Sunday
4 p.m.
Dillinger and Frechette again meet with O'Leary to discuss the divorce
March 19, 1934
Monday
Billie travels to Mooresville to deliver a letter from Dillinger, along with the wooden gun and small sums of money for Audrey Hancock and Dillinger's father
March 20, 1934
Tuesday
Moves in with Billie Frechette at the Lincoln Court Apartments, Apt. 303, 93 South Lexington Avenue, St. Paul, under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Hellman.
Rent is $60 per month
March 22, 1934
Thursday
Baby Face Nelson, with wife Helen Gillis and John Paul Chase, arrive in Reno, Nevada
*In Chicago, Fred Goetz, aka: Shotgun Ziegler, ex-Capone henchman, is found dead in Cicero
March 23, 1934
Friday
Dillinger drives to Leipsic, Ohio, and visits Harry Pierpont's mother to discuss the possibility of breaking him out of jail
March 24, 1934
Saturday
Pierpont and Makley sentenced to
death by electric chair. Executions are set for Friday, June 13, 1934. Clark is given life
March 27, 1934
Tuesday
Pierpont and Makley transferred to the state prison in Columbus to await execution. Clark also transferred. Patricia Cherrington buys herself a new coat at
the Young-Quinlan Company, Ninth and Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis. The coat was found in Apartment 303, Lincoln Court Apartments, St. Paul, subsequent to the shootout of March 31.
March 30, 1934
Friday
Dillinger, Billie, John Hamilton and
girlfriend Pat Cherrington, and her sister, Opal Long, have a party at the Lincoln Court Apartments. It lasts most of the night
March 31, 1934
Saturday
10:30 a.m.
After the suspicious caretaker tips off the FBI the day before, Agents Coulter and
Nolls, and Detective Cummings, investigate Apt. 303. Dillinger and Billie escape. Dillinger wounded in left calf. Van Meter escapes on a coal truck that was passing by. Dillinger and Frechette drive to 3300 Fremont Avenue, Eddie Green's apartment, to seek assistance
March 31, 1934
11 a.m.
Green takes Dillinger to Dr. Clayton E. May, at 1835 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, to treat his leg. He stays with Dr. May and his nurse, Augusta Salt, until April 4
April 3, 1934
Tuesday
Eddie Green shot and mortally wounded
by agents at 778 Rondo Avenue, St. Paul
April 4-6, 1934
Dillinger and Frechette travel to Mooresville to visit John's father, arriving on the 5th. On the 6th, Dillinger and his half brother, Hubert, drive to Leipsic, Ohio, to make contact with Pierpont's family
April 7, 1934
Saturday afternoon
Dillinger, with Billie, purchases a car in Indianapolis for cash. Billie lists her
address as 409 North LaSalle Street, Indianapolis, the address of Dillinger's half-brother, Hubert. The car is purchased hours after Dillinger and Hubert flee from a wreck in Noblesville. When the police discover the hot money, and Hubert's address, they raid Hubert's home and Mary Kinder's the following day
April 8, 1934
Sunday
Dillinger family reunion back in Mooresville. The farm is under surveillance at the time, but Dillinger leaves for Chicago after dinner
April 9, 1934
Monday
Billie Frechette arrested at State & Austin Tavern at 416 North State, Chicago, by Melvin Purvis. Dillinger escapes unnoticed
April 11, 1934
Wednesday
Eddie Green dies. He is buried at St. Peter's Cemetery, Mendota, Minnesota. The grave marker is missing
April 13, 1934
Friday
early morning
Robs Warsaw, Indiana, police arsenal with Homer Van Meter
TAKE: Two revolvers and four bulletproof vests
*At the state prison in Columbus, Ohio, Warden Preston Thomas intercepts a pamphlet of St. John's gospel sent to Pierpont from, he believes, Dillinger. The scriptural pamphlet has a page
turned down and a chapter marked with blue ink. It reads: "Let not your heart be troubled; Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's home are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." Preston
intercepts another communication mailed from Chicago April 16. It reads: "Have no fear; Jesus has come once, He will come again."
April 14, 1934
Saturday
Dillinger and Van Meter stop at the Evening Star Tourist Camp in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and speak to proprietor Mrs. Frank Cargin about a cabin. Mrs. Cargin explains to the men that the camp is not yet open for business, but she later discovers that one of the cabins had been broken into and that the two men had stayed two or three nights.
April 17, 1934
Tuesday
Dillinger and John Hamilton drive to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to visit Hamilton's sister
April 18, 1934
Wednesday
May and Salt arraigned; bond set at $50,000 each. Unable to furnish the bond, they are held in the Ramsey County jail
April 19, 1934
Thursday
Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, Baby Face Nelson, Marie Comforti, Jean Delaney, and Helen Gillis meet at the Crystal Ballroom in Fox River Grove, Illinois
April 20, 1934
Friday
1 p.m.
Homer Van Meter, Marie Comforti, and Pat Reilly arrive at Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish, Wisconsin. Dillinger, Hamilton, Pat Cherrington, Tommy Carroll, Jean Delaney, Helen Gillis, and Baby Face Nelson arrive at 5:30 p.m.
April 21, 1934
evening
Pat Reilly, with Pat Cherrington accompanying him, is sent back to St. Paul to collect $4,000 owed to Van Meter by Harry Sawyer, St. Paul underworld fixer and Dillinger gang contact man, who, Reilly later states, was holding
the money for Van Meter to be "cooled" after a prior bank heist. Reilly is given $30 for expense money by Van Meter and is instructed to contact Tommy Gannon, a minor St. Paul hood. Upon his arrival in St. Paul, Gannon is found to be drunk, so he and Cherrington again head back to Little Bohemia. Reilly later states to the FBI that before leaving he did receive $1,000
of the money owed to Van Meter by one Phil Clarrity, local bootlegger, who was holding this money for Sawyer.
April 22, 1934
Sunday
FBI trap is laid after being informed of the gang's whereabouts. The men escape unscathed
CAPTURED: Helen Gillis, Marie Comforti, and Jean Delaney
WOUNDED: John Hoffman, John Morris (by FBI) J.C. Newman, Carl C. Christensen (by Baby Face Nelson)
KILLED: Eugene Boiseneau (by FBI) W. Carter Baum (Baby Face Nelson)
*Billie arrives in St. Paul from Chicago to await trial
April 23, 1934
Monday
Near Hastings, Minnesota, attempting to drive into St. Paul, Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton engage in gun battle with police. Hamilton is wounded in back. Hamilton is brought to Chicago. Dillinger appeals to the crime syndicate for help. He is turned down. Dillinger next contacts Doc Moran,
physician of the Barker-Karpis gang, where he is also refused help.
April 27, 1934
Friday
Hamilton dies from his wounds in Aurora, Illinois, and is buried by Dillinger, Van Meter, Volney Davis, Doc Barker, William Weaver and Harry Campbell in a gravel pit near Oswego, Illinois
May 2, 1934
Wednesday
Bloodstained getaway car found
abandoned at 3333 North Leavitt, Chicago
*In St. Paul, Billie Frechette pleads not guilty to having harbored Dillinger. Bond set at $60,000
May 5, 1934
Saturday
Beth Green sentenced to 15 months for
harboring Dillinger
May 15, 1934
Tuesday
Trial of Billie Frechette, Dr. Clayton May, and Augusta Salt begins in St. Paul. Judge Gunnar H. Nordbye presides
May 16, 1934
Wednesday
Baby Face Nelson pays a visit to Al Van De Houten, proprietor of Van Dee's Cafe and Bar, located at 152-154 South Crawford Avenue, Chicago. This establishment is now being closely watched by agents of the Chicago office.
May 23, 1934
Wednesday
Frechette and May found guilty of conspiring to harbor Dillinger. Nurse Salt acquitted. Frechette sentenced to two years at the federal prison in Milan, Michigan; Dr. May sentenced to two years at Leavenworth
*Bonnie and Clyde killed in ambush near Gibsland, Louisiana
May 24, 1934
Thusday
11:15 p.m.
Officers Martin O'Brien and Lloyd Mulvihill of he East Chicago police are killed by
Van Meter in East Chicago. Van Meter fires machine-gun blasts at them from the back of a truck
May 27, 1934
Sunday
Dillinger moves into 2509 Crawford Avenue, Chicago, home of James Probasco
May 28, 1934
Monday evening
Drs. Wilhelm Loeser and Harold Cassidy arrive at the Probasco home to begin plastic surgery on Dillinger
Late May 1934
Loeser attempts to remove Dillinger's
fingerprints with acids
May 31, 1934
Thursday evening
O'Leary calls on Dillinger at Probasco's. The bandages had been removed earlier in the day
Early June 1934
Dillinger meets Polly Hamilton at the Barrel
of Fun nightclub, according to Polly
June 3, 1934
Sunday evening
Dr. Loeser begins plastic surgery on Homer Van Meter, with assistance from Dr. Cassidy
June 4, 1934
Monday
Joseph Fox, Michigan City escapee,
captured in Chicago and returned to prison to finish sentence
June 5, 1934
Tuesday
Loeser returns to the Probasco house to begin fingerprint removal on Van Meter
June 7, 1934
Thursday
Tommy Carroll shot to death by police in Waterloo, Iowa. He is buried at Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul. The grave marker is missing
June 9, 1934
Saturday
Jean Delaney sentenced to a year and a day for violating parole
*Dillinger and Van Meter drive to Indianapolis in an attempt to find and kill informer Art McGinnis. After losing him in a crowd, the two head back to Chicago
June 21, 1934
Thursday
Van Meter picks up Marie Comforti and the two travel to the home of William and Ella Finerty in Calumet City, Illinois, where they rent a room under assumed names
June 22, 1934
Friday
Dillinger celebrates his 31st birthday with Polly Hamilton at the French Casino nightclub, Chicago
*Officially named Public Enemy No. 1
June 23, 1934
Saturday
Dillinger and Polly celebrate Polly's birthday at the French Casino nightclub
June 26, 1934
Tuesday
Dillinger attends Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Cubs 5, Dodgers 2
June 27, 1934
Wednesday
Harry Copeland sentenced to 25 years for the Greencastle bank job. Pat Reilly arrested in St. Paul and receives two consecutive terms of one year and nine months, and 14 months
June 30, 1934
Saturday noon
Robs the Merchants' National Bank in South Bend, Indiana, with Van Meter, Baby Face Nelson and John Paul Chase. This was to be the gang's last job
BANDIT CAR: Brown Hudson
WOUNDED: Van Meter (head) Delos M. Coen, cashier Perry G. Stahley, V.P. Jacob Solomon, bystander Samuel Toth, motorist
KILLED: Officer Howard Wagner (Van Meter)
TAKE: $30,000
July 1, 1934
Sunday
Pat Reilly tells FBI agents that probably all phone numbers found in possession of the gang or their molls, or phone numbers and addresses in letters, are likely to be in code. The numbers appearing in written form
are each subtracted from 10 to obtain the correct number intended. For example, Dale 2435 would be used for 8675. The taciturn Reilly also informs agents that Baby Face Nelson brought a letter from Louis Cernocky, proprietor of Louie's Place, Fox River Grove, Illinois, and promptly handed the letter over to Emil Wanatka immediately upon their arrival to Little Bohemia. Reilly claims he saw the envelope but not its contents
July 2, 1934
Monday evening
Dillinger attends a movie at the Biograph, at 2433 Lincoln Avenue, Chicago
July 7, 1934
Saturday
Dillinger meets with O'Leary at Schiller Street and Sacramento Boulevard, Chicago, to discuss Billie's appeal. Polly Hamilton is nearby, but O'Leary declines an offer to be introduced
* Pat Cherrington and Opal Long sentenced to two years at the federal prison in Milan, Michigan, on harboring charges
July 10, 1934
Tuesday
Dillinger, Polly Hamilton, Van Meter and Marie Comforti attend the World's Fair
July 11, 1934
Wednesday
O'Leary meets Dillinger at Augusta and Sacramento boulevards, Chicago, to discuss the possibility of freeing Billie Frechette
July 22, 1934
Sunday
Anna Sage phones Melvin Purvis at 5:30 p.m. to inform him that she, Dillinger and Polly will go to either the Biograph or the Marbro Theatre this evening
July 22, 1934
8:15 p.m.
Dillinger, Sage, and Polly arrive at the Biograph. After the three enter the theatre, more than 20 federal agents, including five East Chicago officers, are summoned
July 22, 1934
10:35 p.m.
Upon leaving the theatre, Dillinger is shot four times, two grazing his face, one hitting
his left side, and one entering the back of his neck and exiting beneath the right eye. He dies within moments. Agent Charles
Winstead is believed to have fired the fatal shot
July 24, 1934
Tuesday
Dillinger is carried in wicker basket from the undertaker to the hearse to begin journey
to Mooresville. After a six-hour ride, the caravan arrives. The body is carried into the Harvey Funeral Home. Body is removed at
10:15 p.m. and moved to Maywood, Indiana, to the home of Audrey Hancock, Dillinger's sister
July 25, 1934
Wednesday
The Hancocks permit public viewing of the body in front parlor of their home before the funeral proper. Casket then removed to Crown Hill Cemetery during severe
thunderstorm. Casket lowered at 3:15 p.m.
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