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Dillinger tale fuels Ward Greene book and memory
In a retrospective column Walter Winchell recalls his role in reporting the Dillinger shooting and the selection of his on the scene account for Ward Greene’s Star Reprint Anthology. He notes colleagues, cases, and a fingerprint breakthrough that helped convict a killer.
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John Dillinger
Ward Greene
King Features Syndicate
Dillinger
FBI
Chicago
Dayton
Tenn
Irv Cobb
Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw
Gene Fowler
Ruth Snyder
Greene
Jim
Gillespies
Ohio County
Lizzie
Gillespie
Walter Winchell