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IN CHICAGO TO HUNT GUNMENDiacovery of Blood-Stained Car Spurs Search for Dillin* j ger Today.Trace Flight RouteCUKiAOO. May 3 (JP)- The government's ace man hunters and police marksmen massed forces In the Chicago area today In a new drive to get John Dillinger, “dead or alive.The discovery of a blood-stained automobile—one of two or more carstii*' 1 illtiif*-r on 'i •-! * i -iwed in their dash to liberty from the Little Bohemia resort near Mercer, Wls., April 22, spurred the concentration.l’ollce Captain John Siege's special Dillinger squad, comprising the best marksmen of the police force, was under orders to comb all of the city's underworld haunts for the elusive Indiana gunman. There are 4o determined men in the squad.The blood-stained automobile was found iate yesterday, abandoned in a street on the North side. The stains ■gave rise again to the belief thut one of the Dillinger gang had been badly hurt at one time or another after their flight from the reaort near where a federal agent and a civilian were shot to death.Stolen in St. Paul.The car was stolen from Roy Francis of South St. Paul, Minn., on April 23—the day after the battle of Little Bohemia, after three men riding In a coupe and believed to lie Dillinger gangsters were sighted by deputy sheriffs at Hastings, Minn. A running gun fight between Hastings and St. Paul park ensued, but the trio eacaited, abandoning the the coupe near Invergrove. Minn., where they held up Francis, his wife anti baby, taking his sedan.Tlie coupe was found later, abandoned and blood-stained, the trio continuing their wild flight, which apparently took them to Chicago, In Francis* car.In fhe machine were a pile of bandages, several boxes of paper mat: lies from the Little Bohemia resort, and a copy of a Dubuque, Iowa, newspaper, with a headline:Dillinger on Rampage.Other indications that Dillinger Is hiding out somewhere In the Chicago area came Monday morning when one of four gunmen who disarmed a squad of Bellwood |*olice, was identified as Dillinger.Made Breakneck S|iecdThe Dubuque newspaper, the police said, indicated the gang followed U. S. Highway No. (Jl from the vicinity of South St. Paul to Dubuque, where the fugitives turned east toward Chicago, stopping long enough to steal the license plates from the car of Dr. K. K. Shelly at Freeport, sometime between 7 and 8 o'clock the night of April 23.At this time the hunt for Dillinger and his mob centered in the northern Wisconsin woods and In tiie St. Paul area. The 324 miles traveled from South St. Paul to Freeport. I and the time element indicated the gangsters must have driven at breakneck speed, atithorlites said.In the course of the Chicago hunt, a detective squad took Henry Johnson, negro, into custody and charged him with hiding I7.00U for Herbert Youngblood, the Gary negro who broke out of the Crown Point, Ind., Jail with Dillinger and was killed a few days later by Michigan police.The money, said Sergt. James Fitzgerald, was lost from a bank robbery in which Youngblood aided. Johnson denied he knew Youngblood.
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Rhinelander Daily News
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, US
Thu, May 03, 1934
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