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  Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, a middle-class residential neighborhood.
Dillinger, following his father's advice, confessed, was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony, and received joint sentences of 2 to 14 years and 10 to 20 years in the Indiana State Prison.
Dillinger was sequestered at the county jail in Crown Point, Indiana, to await trial for the murder of the East Chicago police officer.
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  John Dillinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dillinger, the son of a farmer, was born on June 22, 1903, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in nearby Mooresville.
Dillinger's friend employed a lawyer and received only a few months in jail, while the lawyer-less Dillinger was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison, despite having no prior criminal record.
Dillinger alone was sent to the Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana.
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 John Dillinger
Dillinger was born on June 28, 1902 in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in nearby Mooresville.
Dillinger's luck and customary charisma won out, however, for the Federal agents were corrupted by the opportunity to join in the festivities.
Dillinger attended the film "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph Theater[?] in Chicago with his girlfriend Polly Hamilton and Ana Campanas, a brothel owner who was facing deportation charges.
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 John Dillinger - MSN Encarta
John Dillinger (1902?-1934), American criminal, who attracted national attention for a series of crimes he committed in the midwestern United States over a period of 13 months in 1933 and 1934.
Dillinger committed his first armed robbery in 1924, and served nine years in prison before being released in May 1933, during the Great Depression.
However, Dillinger was betrayed by an acquaintance who told federal agents that she would wear a red dress while accompanying him to the Biograph Theater.
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 The Biography Channel - John Dillinger Biography
John Dillinger has gone down in history as a pseudo ‘Robin Hood’ character, a gangster with charm and style who was more idolised by the public than reviled.
John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, in Indianapolis.
Despite Dillinger Jnr appearing to be a generally law abiding and pleasant youngster, he had a darker side to him that revealed itself in his desire to roam around at night and get in with the wrong crowd.
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 Crime Library: John Dillinger
Dillinger despaired of ever seeing her again, even though lawyer Piquett was optimistic that he could get her out soon.
Dillinger wanted three moles removed, a depression on the bridge of his nose filled in and a scar on his lip and the dimple in his chin removed.
Dillinger and his colleagues came out of the bank with three hostages, but the presence of hostages didn't stop the police from shooting.
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 John Dillinger: Bank Robber or Robin Hood? - The Crime Library feature story
And so, John Dillinger and Harry Pierpont, Baby Face Nelson and the rest of the Dillinger Gang were celebrities whose exploits were followed closely by a Depression-weary American public that followed their every adventure like a running television series.
Dillinger and the rest of the gang were waiting for the two to return so they could leave.
Dillinger and gang members Homer Van Meter, John “Red” Hamilton and Tommy Carroll followed the plan to perfection, running down to the back of the lakeshore and turning right.
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 John Dillinger
When John Dillinger was gunned down by federal agents in 1934 he was "public enemy number one," so-named by the Justice Department for his string of violent bank robberies in the midwestern United States.
Dillinger then crossed the Indiana-Illinois state line and headed for Chicago, sparking the interest of federal investigators (in the division that later became the F.B.I.).
Common folklore has it that Dillinger was betrayed by "the Lady in Red," a description of Anna Sage adopted newspapers, despite the fact that Sage was actually dressed in orange and white.
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 John Dillinger
Since Dillinger's parole date was approaching he was selected to operate as their connection on the outside, carrying out robberies to raise funds for the escape.
Dillinger, unaware of these events, arrived at the house where Makley and Clark had been grabbed, and was arrested by officers just as they were setting up their stakeout.
John's plans to use his share of the $240,000 to leave the country had to be abandoned.
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 John Dillinger St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903,; in the middle-class Oak Hill section of Indianapolis.
Dillinger and his gang pulled several bank robberies and also plundered the police arsenals at Auburn, Indiana,; and Peru, Indiana,; stealing several machine guns, rifles, and revolvers, a quantity of ammunition, and several bulletproof vests.
Dillinger was sequestered at the county jail in Crown Point, Indiana,; to await trial for the murder of the East Chicago police officer.
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 American Experience | Public Enemy #1 | People & Events
He put the town of Mooresville under surveillance, and threatened to prosecute the Dillinger family unless they cooperated with the D.O.I. Hoover was dissuaded from the latter, but members of the family, out of concern for their safety, did agree to be interviewed by federal agents.
Dillinger was arrested; his father sternly advised him to plead guilty and take his punishment, which turned out to be quite harsh.
Dillinger was extradited to Indiana for the murder of Officer O'Malley, and transported by extravagant and, for the time, quite unusual means: an airplane.
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 John Dillinger
John Dillinger went from small time crook to America's Most Wanted after an ill-fated bank robbery left a police officer dead.
Dillinger shot his way out of numerous FBI traps from St. Paul, Minn. to St. Louis and escaped the FBI at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin.
Dillinger was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
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 Agile Writer - Biography and History - John Dillinger
John Herbert Dillinger was born in 1903 in Indianapolis.
Dillinger, Pierpont, Van Meter and several of the inmates that had escaped from Michigan City formed a gang that would later be known as the Dillinger gang.
On January 25, 1934 Dillinger was captured in Tucson, along with a couple of his partners and transported to jail in Crown Point, Indiana to await trial for the killing of the police officer.
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 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives
He'd seen Dillinger walk into the crowded theater about two hours earlier with two women, including one in an orange skirt (often called a "red dress") who had tipped off authorities that the wanted criminal would be there.
Dillinger sensed something was wrong, and as Agent Charles Winstead would later describe, the gangster "whirled around and reached for his right front pocket [where he had a.380 Colt automatic pistol].
The successful conclusion to the Dillinger manhunt was the beginning of the end of the gangster era and a cornerstone in the evolution of the Bureau.
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 Dillinger's Dead
John Dillinger was found guilty of murder long before he was arrested and brought to trial for the crime.
After Dillinger was released from prison he quickly put his new skills to work and began robbing a banks with perfection and style, and percision.
Dillinger master-minded the biggest prison escape that Indiana has ever seen to this date, but it was Pierpont that engineered the break and it was his nerve that led the way.
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 BookRags: John Dillinger Biography
John Dillinger (1903-1934) was the most famous modern American criminal.
John Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, in Indianapolis, Ind. His mother died when he was quite young; he was raised by an older sister and eventually, when his father remarried, by his stepmother.
Dillinger became a challenge for law enforcement officials, for he often made them look like fools; conflicts between police jurisdictions made him difficult to capture.
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 John Dillinger
John Dillinger was killed in Chicago in an FBI shootout following his escape from jail; Dillinger and most of his gang were captured in Tucson.
Little Johnny Dillinger, the son of a church-going grocer, was the bad seed of the Dillinger family.
John Dillinger (left) at a reenactment of his capture staged outside the Congress Hotel in Tucson.
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 THE BIOGRAPH THEATER
Dillinger spent the next 8 years in jail but when he was released in May of 1933, he robbed three banks in three months and netted more than $40,000.
Dillinger was captured in September 1933 and imprisoned in Lima, Ohio.
Dillinger arrived in Chicago in late June and proceeded to rob a South Bend, Indiana bank and kill a police officer and four civilians.
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 Indiana State Archives - History and Records
Dillinger's reformatory records were recently rediscovered and transferred to the State Archives.
On 3 March 1934, John Dillinger used a wooden pistol to escape from the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana.
The principal focus of the anger was the apparent friendliness and laxity of the Lake County sheriff and prosecutor; they treated Dillinger as a celebrity, even posing for photos with him.
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 John Dillinger, Public Enemy #1
Dillinger escaped from prison on March 3, 1934, from an escape-proof cell using a wooden gun he fashioned.
After resuming his chosen career, and evading an FBI ambush in which two agents were accidentally killed, J. Edgar Hoover named Dillinger Public Enemy #1.
After this photo was distributed, tales of John Dillinger's legendary manhood spread.
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Dillinger's career was nurtured by the FBI until he was ripe and ready for the kill.
John Dillinger's reputation would triumph and soar upward in the nineteen thirties to become a giant in his trade.
Dillinger's exploits would be admired by many as a outlaw and a folk hero during the great depression era.
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 From The Times Archives - John Dillinger
While only Dillinger would know for sure, there are several indications that Lake County has the real fake gun; however, that does not mean the others should be dismissed as insignificant.
Mary Hancock Dillinger attested that the wooden pistol is "the gun carved by my Uncle John Dillinger," and the one he used to escape.
The Dillingers eventually lost their gun, and after traveling through several hands, O'Leary's gun -- the real fake gun -- was purchased by Pinkston, and now rests in a security deposit box in the name of Lake County.
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 BookRags: John Herbert Dillinger Biography
Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of a middle-class grocer father.
Dillinger took the car into Illinois, which made him liable to the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, since he had taken the car across state lines and committed a federal offense.
When Dillinger left the theater that evening, the FBI closed in, and Dillinger was killed in the brief ensuing shootout.
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 John Dillinger
Dillinger, following his father's advice, confessed, was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony, and received a harsh sentence 10-20 years to Indiana State Prison.
After Dillinger stole a sheriff's car and crossed a state line, a Federal complaint was sworn charging Dillinger with the theft and interstate transportation of the automobile, which was recovered in Chicago.
Dillinger spent some time in Upper Michigan, departing just ahead of a posse of FBI Agents dispatched there by airplane.
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 John Dillenger   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The best-known American bank robber of the 20th century was John Dillinger.
Dillinger was born in Indianapolis, Ind., on June 28, 1902.
The image at left is a photograph of John Dillinger's 1921 Colt Thompson.
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 JOHNNIE DILLINGER
Dillinger participated in three gangs, escaped from two jails, raided three police departments, escaped several police and FBI traps, and helped mastermind the biggest jailbreak in history from the Indiana State Penitentiary at Michigan City.
John Dillinger had no idea that he would become the most celebrated criminal of the 1930's, but he did...and you can now read the inside story on the REAL John Dillinger told by his only wife Beryl Ethel Hovious.
John Dillinger is an adrenaline-fueled narrative that reignites America's fascination with the suave but deadly desperado who was the FBI's first "Public Enemy." Dubbed "The Jackrabbit" because of the way he leaped over bank cages and railings, Dillinger and his bank-robbing gang cut a criminal swath yet to be equaled.
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