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	Melvin Purvis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melvin Purvis (1903 - February 29, 1960) was a U.S. lawman and FBI agent.
		Melvin Purvis joined the FBI in 1927 after a brief career as a lawyer.
		Purvis was given great acclaim for his role in this and incurred the wrath of FBI Director J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melvin_Purvis (272 words)

	Melvin Purvis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melvin Purvis (1903 - February 29, 1960) was a (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) U.S. lawman and FBI agent.
		Purvis was best remembered, however, as leading the manhunt for (additional info and facts about John Dillinger) John Dillinger.
		Purvis was given great acclaim for his role in this and incurred the wrath of FBI Director (United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)) J.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/melvin_purvis.htm (374 words)

	BU Bridge Arts Dept. - Week of 25 September 1998
		Purvis' father, Melvin, was the special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago office from 1927 until 1935.
		Purvis' collection of documents is evidence of the extreme thoroughness that characterized Hoover's inquiries.
		Purvis, director ad interim of the Visual Arts Division at SFA and chairman of the graphic design department, is disappointed that his father has been misrepresented by the sloppiness of other authors and by Hollywood.
	www.bu.edu /bridge/archive/1998/09-25/arts.html (942 words)

	MELVIN AND HOWARD
		Purvis was certain she had changed her mind and wanted to warm his bed, especially when her nipples hardened as she neared them.
		Purvis tried to mingle but the English spoke to him in their dialect, which he could not fathom yet and the Americans avoided him because of his reputation as slaver.
		Melvin also had to begin planning for that contingency and believed that in the fight with the Pirates, New Coventry would be in an uproar, so he and people who thought as he did could take control of the area.
	www.pjfarmer.com /fan/melvin.htm (19091 words)

	Melvin Purvis - Topic
		Melvin Purvis was a lengendary G-man who lead the team that killed John Dillenger.
		Purvis did seem to like the limelight, judging from his usual style of dress.
		Hoover was pissed that Purvis was capitalizing on his Bureau career and even went so far to as have collections of the toys maintained as part of the personnel file.
	answerpool.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/113605645/m/8386043714 (299 words)

	American Experience \| Public Enemy #1 \| People & Events
		Purvis likened the operation to a military action, in which all the special agents were equal contributors, and therefore, equally heroic.
		Purvis was forced to earn money by making commercial endorsements, which he found humiliating.
		Although the FBI labeled the death a suicide, it was later determined that Purvis may have been trying to remove a tracer bullet that was stuck in the pistol.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/dillinger/peopleevents/p_purvis.html (835 words)

	Celebrities information - Melvin Purvis biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		'Little Mel' Purvis, the son of a wealthy southern tobacco farmer, was born in 1903 and was the diminutive head of the Chicago office of the FBI, and is best known as the federal agent responsible for bringing several notorious criminals to justice, including John Dillinger and 'Pretty Boy' Floyd.
		Eventually, Purvis secured contact with one of Dillingers friends, Anna Sage, later to become known in the press as 'The woman in red'.
		Purvis was also responsible for bringing about the conviction of Kansas City gangster Adam Richetti, and he also spearheaded the raid that led to the capture of Vern Sankley.
	aroundcelebrities.com /melvin_purvis_biography.html (299 words)

	Crime Library: John Dillinger
		Cowley and Purvis seemed receptive and wanted to know more, but Anna Sage wanted confirmation that they would assist her in fighting her deportation and that she would also receive the reward money on Dillinger's head.
		Purvis told her the FBI would do what it could to help her with the immigration authorities and that she would get a sizeable sum of money if Dillinger were taken.
		Purvis and his colleague decided to sit in a car outside the Biograph and look for the threesome.
	www.dark-horse.co.uk /americana/dillinger/dillingerred.htm (1803 words)

	Van Gundy Family Tree - pafg83 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Alby (Abraham?) PURVIS was born in 1845 in IL.
		Elizabeth PURVIS was born in 1846 in Moultrie Co, IL.
		Elizabeth PURVIS [Parents] was born in 1807 in Mason Co, KY. She died in 1850/1860 in the great plains while enroute to California.
	www.vangundy.net /familytree/paf/pafg83.htm (6784 words)

	Museums in Columbia - ColumbiaSouthCarolina.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melvin Purvis, a South Carolina native and the FBI Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office, was in charge at the scene as Dillenger was gunned down outside a movie theater.
		Purvis also was responsible for the arrest of a number of gangsters in the 1930's before retiring in 1937.
		Purvis died in 1960 and is buried in South Carolina.
	www.columbiasouthcarolina.com /museums.html (376 words)

	Did you Know...?: Melvin Purvis: The Real Dick Tracy
		Born in 1903, Purvis was a young lawyer with no previous law-enforcing experience when he decided to join the FBI in 1927.
		Purvis gained national acclaim and became a hero known as the “Ace G-Man.” His reputation was further sealed a few months later, when another tip led to the killing of Pretty Boy Floyd.
		There was a TV movie made in 1974 starring Dale Robertson, Melvin Purvis G-Man, and to this day his legendary life holds a fascination with both historians and collectors alike.
	scoop.diamondgalleries.com /scoop_article.asp?ai=2023&si=126 (663 words)

	Washington Bulletin by John J. Miller on FBI Building on National Review Online
		The best man for the honor may be Melvin Purvis, the field agent responsible for capturing John Dillinger in 1934.
		Purvis didn't actually fire the gun that killed Public Enemy Number One, but he did run the operation (and kept the shooter's identity a secret to protect him from revenge attacks).
		Purvis had once been a favorite of Hoover's, but the jealous FBI chief couldn't stand the fact that one of his agents was gaining public notoriety.
	www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller092402.asp (590 words)

	DILLINGER'S GUN
		Agent Melvin Purvis reported that he removed the gun from Dillinger's body after the outlaw was killed.
		Melvin Purvis claimed he personally removed the gun from Dillinger’s hand, which turned out to be hammerless.
		Purvis was an honest man, but under Hoover’s command, his loyalties would lead to lies.
	www.dillingerthehiddentruth.freeservers.com /contact.html (746 words)

	Melvin Purvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melvin Purvis was a lawyer working in South Carolina.
		Purvis offered his resignation to Hoover, who refused to accept it.
		Spotting the infamous bank robber exiting the theatre, Purvis lights his cigar, the signal for Dillinger, and moves in saying to Dillinger: "Stick 'em up, Johnny, we have you surrounded." In the ensuing attempt by Dillinger to escape, two bullets hit the bank robber.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/purvis.html (355 words)

	MELVIN H. PURVIS - DOCUMENT SIGNED 1952
		In full: "This Certifies that Melvin Purvis whose photograph and signature appear hereon is a duly authorized representative of the committee for the purpose of making investigations as authorized and directed by Senate Resolution 53, Eighty-Second Congress".
		FBI Special Agent Melvin Purvis led the agents who gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago in 1933 and Pretty Boy Floyd in an Ohio farm field in 1934.
		Purvis left the FBI in July 1935 after a year of personal confrontation with J. Edgar Hoover.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2003/law/MELVIN_H_PURVIS.htm (287 words)

	Alston interview
		Son of FBI Agent Melvin Purvis, of the FBI Bureau in Chicago
		His father was FBI Agent Melvin Purvis, of the FBI Bureau in Chicago.
		Purvis was among those attempting to trap Miller at the Sherone Apartments on November 1
	www.sdpb.org /radio/oto/VerneMiller/Alston.asp (1215 words)

	Morning News Online - Florence, Myrtle Beach \| Florence native turns pen on FBI agent father (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melvin Purvis was the FBI agent in charge of the bureau’s premier office in Chicago.
		Melvin Purvis rose rapidly through the FBI ranks because he “personified everything Hoover wanted in his new breed of federal agent: He was educated, efficient, dedicated, well-mannered — a true gentleman crime buster,” Alston Purvis wrote.
		Alston Purvis said he is the only one left to tell his father’s full story and he tried at all costs to avoid sentimentality.
	www.morningnewsonline.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=FMN/MGArticle/FMN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784445759&path=!new (920 words)

	Charles Arthur Floyd: "Pretty Boy" from Cookson Hills
		Purvis, a former lawyer from South Carolina, was the G-Man who had gotten Dillinger.
		Purvis brought along with him his aide and confidante, an agent named Herman Hollis, and wired for others to meet him in Wellsville.
		Purvis at first worried that his prey might have slipped through the net and had scooted to Youngstown where, it was known, various criminals lived who might have offered him refuge.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/floyd/9.html (2760 words)

	MELVIN H. PURVIS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 03/09/1944
		Purvis, Director of the Chicago FBI office, also led the team of law enforcement officers who apprehended and killed Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd that same year.
		Purvis, known as "Little Mel" for his stature (just under five feet tall), was reportedly forced out of his office the following year due to the jealously of J. Edgar Hoover over Purvis' nationwide attention.
		Purvis has signed the letter: "Melvin", he signed his name as part of his return address: "Lt. Col.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/1_2004/law/MELVIN_H_PURVIS.htm (391 words)

	J. Edgar Hoover
		Then Purvis got a tip that Dillinger and five of his gang members were hiding in Little Bohemia, a resort in Wisconsin.
		Purvis vowed he would get Nelson and he had: Nelson died shortly after the gun fight from wounds he sustained from the agents.
		Purvis committed suicide in 1960 with the same gun he used when Dillinger was shot.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/hoover/7.html (2231 words)

	PublicAffairs Books: THE VENDETTA
		His son tells the life story of Melvin Purvis, once an iconic G-man and public hero, who was destroyed not by the famous villains of the 1930s but by the jealousy of his boss, J.
		By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, besides President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America.
		With the benefit of a unique family archive of documents, new testimony from colleagues and friends of Melvin Purvis and witnesses to the events of 1934, he has produced a grippingly authentic new telling of the gangster era, seen from the perspective of the pursuers.
	www.publicaffairsbooks.com /publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=1586483013 (374 words)

	Remember Melvin Purvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alston Purvis began to reinvestigate his father’s story only after his own son was born.
		With the benefit of a unique family archive of documents and new testimony from Purvis’ colleagues, friends, and witnesses to the events of the ’30s, he has produced a grippingly authentic new telling of the gangster era.
		Alston Purvis is the sole surviving son of Melvin Purvis.
	www.thecolumbiastar.com /news/2005/1111/News/014.html (315 words)

	BU debuts espionage exhibit - The Daily Free Press - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alston Purvis, graphic design professor and the sole surviving son of former FBI agent Melvin Purvis, spoke at the event, which was titled "Espionage: Intelligence, Secrets and Spies."
		Alston Purvis' remarks touched on the subject of espionage within American history, as well as the very personal topic of his father, also the subject of his new book titled The Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis' War Against Crime and J. Edgar Hoover's War Against Him.
		The book is Alston Purvis' attempt to clear his father's name and reputation after jealousy between Melvin Purvis and J. Edgar Hoover eventually forced Melvin Purvis out of the agency, he said.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/news/2005/09/21/News/Bu.Debuts.Espionage.Exhibit-992522.shtml (438 words)

	The G-man that Hoover wished would disappear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From then until Purvis' death in 1960, Hoover had the bureau spy on its former star; blocked him from a series of jobs, including two opportunities for judgeships; kept meticulously annotated gossip about him; and made his name and face vanish like a convicted commissar's from authorized bureau histories.
		Hoover took the trouble to announce that Purvis' death was a suicide, although that isn't what the coroner later ruled, and if anyone else had died under the same circumstances, there might well have been an investigation.
		Purvis' three sons had to piece together what they could of their father's FBI career.
	www.palmbeachpost.com /ae/content/entertainment/arts_entertainment/epaper/2005/11/06/sae9j_blackburnbook_1106.html (864 words)

	Memorable Quotes from Dillinger (1973) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melvin Purvis: This is for Kansas City, boy.
		Melvin Purvis: You shouldn't be lying when you're so close to your maker.
		Melvin Purvis: On June 17,1933, five of my finest men were ambushed escorting convicted bank robber Frank Nash to the Federal penitentiary.
	indie.imdb.com /Quotes?0069976 (848 words)

	Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
		Melvin Purvis was employed by the FBI from 1927 until his resignation in 1935.
		In 1933, as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago FBI Office, he became famous for leading the group that gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago.
		He was found dead at the top of a staircase in his home with a bullet through his head.
	www.hyperarts.com /pynchon/gravity/alpha/p-q.html (2204 words)

	THE BIOGRAPH THEATER
		He had been hiding out in her North Halstead Street apartment but for months he had been pursued diligently by Melvin Purvis, the head of the Chicago branch of the FBI.
		Purvis had lived and breathed Dillinger (and would, after the robber's death, commit suicide) and had narrowly missed him several times at a State Street and Austin Cafe; at Dillinger's north woods hideout in Sault St. Marie; and at Wisconsin's Little Bohemia, where FBI agents recklessly killed a civilian and injured two others.
		He was turned away at the doors as he was already dead and Purvis and the police waited on the hospital lawn for the coroner to arrive.
	www.prairieghosts.com /dillinger.html (1934 words)

	Moments in History--Melvin Purvis rounded up a slew of notorious outlaws
		The son of a prominent family in Timmonsville, S.C., Purvis had stepped into the Chicago office of the Justice Department in time to meet a storm of kidnappings and killings.
		Melvin Purvis, ace Department of Justice investigator from Chicago, was already on hand, seeking to take Richetti back west.”
		The next day’s paper, Oct. 23, was headlined “‘Pretty Boy’ is added to Purvis’ Record of Doom,” and went on to say that Floyd was shot down as he fled from an Ohio farm.
	www.salisburypost.com /2000august/081400e.htm (1912 words)

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	vontut's ~ frank and jesse james portraits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		the heirs of MELVIN PURVIS of FLORENCE S C, sold purvis's personal property at auction.
		purvis was a famous G MAN - responsible for the death of JOHN DILLINGER, - dillinger was often known as the modern day jesse james.
		the sale had old guns, knives, photo's of purvis etc.
	home.earthlink.net /~ronneburg/jesse (312 words)

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