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	harrypierpont
		Harry Pierpont was one of the major members of the John Dillinger Gang.
		Pierpont and two of his Michigan City escape party, Russell Clark and Charles Makley were eventaully sent to Lima to stand trial for the murder of the Sheriff there.
		Pierpont and Makley were sentenced to die in the chair.
	www.geocities.com /pierpont_2001/pierpontpage.html (181 words)

	Harry Pierpont
		Pierpont had attempted escape and was later transferred to Michigan City.
		Pierpont received a wound to the head and spine, which left him half crippled.
		Harry however, was kept alive long enough to be half carried to the chair.
	www.geocities.com /hydey6/page8.html (423 words)

	Amazon.de: Handsome Harry: Or the Gangster's True Confessions: English Books: James Carlos Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		As Harry Pierpont, the self-described leader of the bank-robbing Dillinger Gang, awaits electrocution in Ohio for the murder of a sheriff, he recalls his adventures in a narrative that reads like a good as-told-to true crime story.
		Harry's voice is the smooth, almost affectless vernacular of a hardened con it's convincing, but it also keep readers at a certain distance.
		Add that to Harry's exhibited brutality, pitilessness and fixation on sex (the book has a lot of erections and much is made of the relative size of John and Harry's members), and Blake has created a deeply flawed character, eloquent enough to tell his tale but perhaps not perceptive enough to understand its significance.
	www.amazon.de /Handsome-Harry-Gangsters-True-Confessions/dp/0060554789 (573 words)

	Northern Express
		Harry ends up having to spring Dillinger after he is jailed again, but the price he pays for doing so comes at a tragic cost.
		Their escapades have all the elements a reader wants and expects, from sassy gun molls and robbery repartee to high-speed chases and back alley betrayals, but there's also a very dark undercurrent to the proceedings, especially in the depictions of violence, that can quickly bring one back to earth.
		Harry's ultimate denouement is a confirmation of the old "crime does not pay adage," and you know thats the message long before you get there.
	www.northernexpress.com /editorial/books.asp?id=73 (972 words)

	DIELAND: Dillinger - The Terror Gang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		According to Pierpont's code, a crime not only had to be committed without the benefit of drink or drugs but prepared in sobriety...the men would sit around the living room discussing future plans much like any group of respectable businessmen.
		Pierpont ordered everyone to the floor, flat on their stomachs, while Dillinger got the cashier and bank president to open the vault.
		Harry Pierpont had asked for the license, but Mary could not sign it because she was not legally divorced from her husband.
	members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/dillinger/dillingerterror.htm (2010 words)

	Crime Library: John Dillinger
		Pierpont's tightly knit group was composed of "Fat Charley" Makely, a forty-four-year-old veteran bankrobber from Ohio; John "Red" Hamilton, a tough, intelligent, thirty-four-year-old bankrobber; Russell Clark, a young man who was in jail for a single bank robbery; Dillinger and, later, Dietrich.
		The happy moment turned to tragedy when he rushed home to be at the side of his stepmother who was dying, only to arrive an hour too late to see her one last time.
		With Harry Copeland, a new accomplice, Dillinger drove to the town of Daleville on July 17.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /americana/dillinger/dillingerappren.htm (1685 words)

	Harry Pierpont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harry Pierpont (October 13, 1902 - October 17, 1934) was most noted for being a friend and mentor of John Dillinger.
		Born in Muncie, Indiana, to J. Gilbert and Lena Orcutt Pierpont; Harry Pierpont was the middle child with an older sister Fern, who died of tuberculosis when he was a teenager, and a younger brother Frank.
		Narrowly surviving his escape attempt, Harry Pierpont's conviction was upheld on October 17, 1934.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Pierpont (1141 words)

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		Pierpont was next, falling victim to a police ruse.
		Pierpont was informed that because of his out-of-state license, he would need to stop by police headquarters and pick up a "visitor sticker."
		Pierpont was badly wounded in the prison break attempt, but lived long enough to die in the electric chair on Oct. 17, 1934.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /print/calendar/012005ca_dt_dillinger_hist (1116 words)

	History - Ohio Pen 1984
		Pierpont, Dillinger's mentor in crime, had been brought to the penitentiary under National Guard escort for his part in the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber during Dillinger's 1933 jail break from the Allen County Jail.
		On October 17, 1934, dapper Harry Pierpont became the 183rd felon to die in the Ohio electric chair.
		Pierpont was just one of the mob of racketeers who crowded into the Ohio Penitentiary during the 1930s, although few ever went to the chair.
	www.mrps.org /ohiopen2.htm (4853 words)

	News & Opinion: Public Enemy No. 1 (Tucson Weekly . 01-25-99)
		As luck would have it, Pierpont and girlfriend Mary Kinder were just driving away when police pulled them over and used a fantastic ruse to convince Pierpont to follow the officers to the station.
		Pierpont never revealed whether he believed the unlikely lie, or if he accompanied the officers with the intention of finding a more opportune time to blast his way free.
		Such bold threats did little to convince the police that Pierpont was what he and others in the gang still claimed to be--winter visitors.
	weeklywire.com /ww/01-25-99/tw_feat.html (2184 words)

	Charles Makley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pierpont, Makley, and Russell Clark entered the facility, while Ed Shouse remained outside as a lookout.
		Makley, Pierpont, and Clark were sent back to Indiana State Prison under the supervision of Sheriff Don Sarber, the son of the Allen County sheriff they had killed.
		Makley and Pierpont were sentenced to die in the electric chair, while Clark received a life sentence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Makley (1098 words)

	Dillinger's Dead
		Pierpont proved this during the escape from Michigan City after he lead ten men out the front gates of the Indiana State prison to freedom.
		Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State police knew Harry Pierpont's character and that he was surely the leader of the gang.
		Pierpont had big plans for the future and offered to let Dillinger in their circle but wanted something in return.
	www.dillingerthehiddentruth.freeservers.com /photo2.html (688 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Handsome Harry' is a roaring crime saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Star character Harry Pierpont, who was the self-acknowledged leader of dashing hoodlum John Dillinger's bank-robbing gang, is the narrator and the man behind the myth.
		In prison, Pierpont meets Dillinger and learns to become a better crook, refining his system for robbing banks with the help of older, wiser cons.
		Handsome Harry is such a smooth, entertaining read that you are likely to look up at the clock and wonder where the hours have gone.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2004-02-23-handsome-harry_x.htm (489 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		The four men were identified as Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark, Charles Makley, and Harry Copeland.
		Meanwhile, Pierpont, Makley, and Clark were returned to Ohio and convicted of the murder of the Lima sheriff.
		Pierpont and Makley were sentenced to death, and Clark to life imprisonment.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/dillinger/dillinger.htm (2537 words)

	GREENCASTLE BANK JOB
		Harry Copeland stops just outside the bank by the front door, while the other three men, John Dillinger, Harry Pierpont and Charley Makley enter the bank.
		Harry Pierpont walks up to the fourth teller and asks Ward Mayhal for change for a twenty dollar bill.
		Many Authors claim that Pierpont was armed with a machinegun, but Sayers states that he got a good look at the sawed off shotgun up close that Harry Pierpont stuck in his back and hauled him off to the vault.
	johnniedillinger.freeservers.com /custom4.html (373 words)

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		The Dillinger Gang actually didn't begin until Harry Pierpont and nine other men escaped from the Michigan City Prison in Indiana on Sept. 22, 1933.
		Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark and Charles Makley were sent to Ohio to face the electric chair for killing Sheriff Sarber.
		Pierpont and Makley would later be found guilty and sentenced to die.
	www.geocities.com /hydey6/Page2.html (240 words)

	purevolume™ \| HandsomeHarry
		They were known as the Dillinger Gang but at its heart was "Handsome Harry" Pierpont -- tough, fearless, intelligent, and sworn to live by no law but his own.
		Presented as his intimate "confessions," Harry's story takes us from his teenage days as a small-time crook to his fateful meeting with the equally young Dillinger to the pinnacle of his notoriety, and to his final hours in the penitentiary death house.
		So far we've gone through about 20 band names, but we allways go back to Handsome Harry, because it's the only one that seems right.
	www.purevolume.com /handsomeharry/music (354 words)

	From The Times Archives - John Dillinger
		Among the group are Harry Pierpont Ü credited with planning most of the gang's later robberies, Ü Charles Makley, Russell Clark, Edward Shouse, Walter Dietrich, John Burns, James Jenkins, Joseph Fox, John Hamilton and James Clark.
		Pierpont pulled a gun and said, "These are our credentials." He then shot Sarber once in the head, and the sheriff died several hours later.
		Satisfied they have not been followed, Pierpont ties the hostages to a tree with the bookkeeper's shoelaces.
	www.thetimesonline.com /dillinger/1933.html (561 words)

	Tucson Weekly : books : Confessions of a Criminal
		Based on the life of John Dillinger's fellow Harry Pierpont, the novel is set on only two dates--Oct. 16-17, 1934--on Ohio State Prison's death row.
		The word was that Pierpont wasn't to be messed with and that he couldn't be cowed.
		He was an outlaw--"the only way left for a man to hold on to his self-respect." And he abides by a kind of honor among thieves.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/books/Content?oid=oid:53543 (972 words)

	Amazon.com: Handsome Harry: A Novel: Books: James Carlos Blake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Harry is not untalented, good looking, personable - but in this book he is also a vicious man, uncontrollable and flawed beyond even the desire for redemption.
		Pierpont himself was executed for shooting a sheriff, and whilst shooting him didn't do the sheriff much good, it was his panicking comrade Mackley who killed the lawman by coshing him afterwards.
		This novel is fiction but is probably as close to reality as the story of Harry Pierpont, could be told.
	www.amazon.com /Handsome-Harry-James-Carlos-Blake/dp/0060554789 (2319 words)

	From The Times Archives - John Dillinger
		The soap guns were carved by Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley, both of whom did time with Dillinger in Michigan City's infamous "Big House" state penitentiary.
		When Dillinger was jailed in Ohio in October, Pierpont and Makley killed a sheriff to free him.
		Having been condemned to death for killing the sheriff, the duo used the soap guns in an attempt to bluff their way out of Ohio's death house in September 1934.
	nwitimes.com /dillinger/monday1.html (2198 words)

	John Dillinger
		Shouse and Harry Copeland were expelled from the gang in November 1933.
		arrest of Dillinger, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley and Russell Clark.
		Harry Pierpont died in the Ohio electric chair.
	www.lanepl.org /blount/jbcomp/documents/E5F871195B87A407947AA80FBB7037009B27E45C.html (1496 words)

	PaperCuts: Handsome Harry by James Carlos Blake
		Here he tells in first-person narrative form the story of “Handsome” Harry Pierpont, member of the Dillinger Gang and bona-fide bank robber.
		Harry’s story spools out as he awaits execution for a murder committed in the course of a jail break.
		Before they were recaptured, the Dillinger gang stole countless cars, robbed banks, staged audacious prison escapes, and foiled police and federal agents in several Midwestern states—and all in a period of just a few months from September, 1933 to January, 1934.
	papercuts.tscpl.org /2004/03/handsome_harry_by_james_carlos.html (289 words)

	Dear Reader - January/February 2004
		This bad-guy-as-hero story, narrated by Handsome Harry himself, is completely unrestrained and unapologetic in its fierce portrayal of the life of Harry Pierpont, a companion of the famous criminal John Dillinger.
		A leader and bad-ass among dangerous men, Harry Pierpont seems completely devoid of any internal struggle over the meaning of life or the nature of right and wrong.
		Blake creates a vivid cast of characters and his writing style is so unobtrusive that it is easy to forget anyone wrote this book, that you are indeed only listening to the words of this gangster who thinks he is telling you all, but is actually telling you more than he should.
	www.squarebooks.com /dearreader/2004_01/07.php (531 words)

	John Dillinger formed gang after jailbreak
		On Oct. 12, 1933, Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley broke John Dillinger out of the Allen County Jail in Lima, Ohio - killing Sheriff Jesse Sarber in the process.
		Makley and Pierpont were fellow inmates at the Indiana State Prison.
		Makley and Pierpont were returned to Ohio and sentenced to death for the murder of Sarber.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/10/12/loc_ohiodate1012.html (286 words)

	REVIEWS IN BRIEF / Handsome Harry, or the Gangster's True Confessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Spoken in the voice of Pierpont himself on the night before his 1934 execution, the novel has an appealing intimacy.
		"Handsome Harry" is not a departure for the seductively violent Blake, but a refinement.
		It still carries his trademark carnage, redolent sex and dry humor, but it is also a beguiling, hurtling digression into a new voice for Blake.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/15/RVGHK4P6591.DTL&type=printable (254 words)

	Ohio State Penitentiary
		Charles Makley and Henry Pierpont, who were associated with John Dillinger, were also sentenced to the pen.
		They made it to the death house doors, but then the guards caught up and fired at them with rifles.
		Charles Makley was killed by gunshots, but Harry Pierpont survived...just barely.
	www.graveaddiction.com /ospen.html (317 words)

	Crime Library: John Dillinger: Bank Robber or Robin Hood? - The Crime Library feature story
		Dillinger wanted to be back with his friends, Pierpont and Van Meter, who had been transferred there, but told the board he was making the request because they had a better baseball team there.
		Pierpont's tightly knit group was composed of "Fat Charley" Makley, a forty-four-year-old veteran bankrobber from Ohio; John "Red" Hamilton, a tough, intelligent, thirty-four-year-old bankrobber; Russell Clark, a young man who was in jail for a single bank robbery; Dillinger and, later, Dietrich.
		Pierpont and Van Meter were incorrigible, life long bank robbers.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/dillinger/3.html (2423 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003053991 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Presented as his intimate "confessions," Harry's story takes us from his teenage days as a small-time crook to the pinnacle of his notoriety to his final hours in the penitentiary death house.
		Then John is jailed and Harry must in turn liberate him but the jailbreak comes at a tragic cost and ultimately seals Harry's fate.
		In four blazing months of freedom before he meets that fate, Harry and John and their three steadfast partners -- Red, Russell, and Fat Charley -- establish themselves as the most legendary outlaw gang of the twentieth century.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hc041/2003053991.html (323 words)

	James Carlos Blake Message Board
		when harry was excuted they cut his ring off before they killed him in which i am wearing now.
		from what i can find out, harry was part of the purple gang but i am unable to find proof of that.
		all i canfind was harry was with the dillinger gang.
	www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=9742 (404 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Handsome Harry
		After Dillinger helps to break Pierpont and others out of Michigan City prison by smuggling in guns, Pierpont repays the favor by busting Dillinger out of an Ohio jail and killing the sheriff in the process.
		Throughout the daring stick-ups and dangerous getaways, there are two constants in Harry's life—the unconditional love of his girlfriend Mary and the deep camaraderie of friends like Dillinger and Fat Charley Makley.
		But with the FBI, the National Guard and police officers all over the country looking for them, their luck is destined to run out.
	www.bookpage.com /0402bp/fiction/handsome_harry.html (248 words)

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