This is John Dillinger's 1933 Essex Terraplane 8, that was caught
up in a two car shoot-out in
Chicago. The guy is pointing to a shotgun blast that was aimed at
Mr. Dillinger.
A police officer shows the busted out rear window of John
Dillinger's stolen and then abandoned automobile
at the North Robey Street police station on May 2, 1934. The
bloodstained Ford V-8 sedan, found at 3338 N.
Leavitt Street in Chicago, had a surgical kit, matches from the
Little Bohemia Resort, and a Dubuque, Iowa,
newspaper dated April 23, 1934 with the headline "Dillinger On
Rampage."
(Chicago Tribune historical photo)
Sgt. Edward A. Grim of the North Robey Street police station with
a Dubuque, Iowa newspaper
found in John Dillinger's stolen and abandoned automobile on May 2,
1934. The bloodstained
getaway car, found at 3338 N. Leavitt Street in Chicago, had a
surgical kit, matches from the
Little Bohemia Resort, and the newspaper dated April 23, 1934 with
the headline
"Dillinger On Rampage."
Government men stand by the Ford that was abandoned by John
Dillinger during a gun battle between
authorities and Dillinger's gang at the Little Bohemia Resort on
April 22, 1934 in Manitowish Waters,
Wisconsin. FBI agents had surrounded the lodge, but Dillinger and
his gang were able to escape
along the shore of the nearby lake. Two people were killed during
the raid, an FBI agent and a
local man who was mistaken for one of Dillinger's gang.
(Chicago Tribune historical photo)
The car Boisneau, Hoffman, and Morris were in at the Little
Bohemia Lodge.
2nd July 1934: The brown Hudson coupe, riddled with bullet holes,
believed to have been the getaway car
in the robbery of Merchants National Bank in South Bend, Indiana, by
a gang led by John Dillinger. The
robbers escaped with more than 29,000 dollars and abandoned the
vehicle in Goodland on the 30th June.
(Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Drivers across the border were compelled to post signs on cars to
ward off police looking
for the Chicago gangster, 1933, Chicago.
John Dillinger and his gang arrive in Chicago on Jan. 30, 1934
after their arrest in Arizona five days earlier.
Dillinger had been caught in Arizona and flown back to Indiana to be
tried for the murder of patrolman William
O'Malley, 43. O'Malley was shot down during the First National Bank
robbery in East Chicago, Indiana.
(Chicago Tribune historical photo)
Men carry the body of Chicago federal agent W. Carter Baum, a
government man who was killed by "Baby Face"
Nelson of John Dillinger's gang, during a shoot-out at the Little
Bohemia resort in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin
on April 22, 1934. Two people were killed during the raid, an FBI
agent and a local man who was mistaken for
one of Dillinger's gang.
(Chicago Tribune historical photo)
Federal Agent Killed by Desperado. Here is a picture of
Department of Justice Agent, H.E. Hollis who was
shot to death by two desperadoes, one of whom is believed to be
"Baby Face" Nelson, at a filling station
at Barrington, Ill. Another agent, Samuel E. Cowley, who was one of
the men who brought John Dillinger
to book was fatally wounded by the machine gun fire of the gunmen,
who were accompanied by the
woman, believed to be Nelson's wife. The desperadoes escaped in the
federal agents' car.
James J. Probasco, who committed suicide by leaping from the
window of the 19th floor office
of the Federal Bureau in Chicago during an intermission in the
agents' questioning of him on
reports that his home was used by the plastic surgeon who operated
on John Dillinger.
Constable Carl C. Christensen with Mary Levendoski at the Twin
City Hospital in Ironwood, Michigan after
Christensen was shot by "Baby Face" Nelson of the John Dillinger
gang during a gun fight at the Little
Bohemia Resort in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin on April 22, 1934.
Christensen, a Spider Lake, Wisc.
constable, was said to be gravely wounded but survived his wounds.
(Chicago Tribune historical photo)
July 1934 Washington, DC: J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the
Department of Justice, extends his hand in
congratulation to his Chicago Bureau Chief, Melvin Purvis, when the
latter arrived in Washington, 7/25,
to give his report on the trapping and slaying of John Dillinger. It
was annouced shortly afterward that
Purvis and Samuel Crowly were rewarded with promotions and salary
incresases for their excellent
work on America's Public Enemy #1.