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Dillinger and Van Meter reunited with Nelson a week later and went into hiding.
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He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry " Pete " Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, and Homer Van Meter, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal.
Dillinger fired through the apartment door upstairs at Cummings, then fled out of a back entrance with Frechette and Van Meter before back-up could arrive.
That Friday morning, late at night, Dillinger and Van Meter took Warsaw, Indiana police officer Judd Pittenger hostage.
The next day, Dillinger, Van Meter and Hamilton were confronted by authorities in Hastings, Minnesota, in a rolling gunfight.
He was taken by Dillinger and Van Meter to see Joseph Moran, though Moran refused to treat Hamilton.
Dillinger, Van Meter, Arthur Barker, and Volney Davis, a member of the Barker-Karpis gang, buried him.
Dillinger and Van Meter then met up with Carroll.
One week after Hamilton's death, Dillinger, Van Meter, and Tommy Carroll robbed the First National Bank of Fostoria, Ohio.
Dillinger and Van Meter spent most of May living out of a red panel truck with a mattress in the back.
On June 30, Dillinger, Van Meter, Nelson, and an unidentified " fat man " robbed the Merchants National Bank in South Bend, Indiana.
Although the details remain in some dispute, the escape is suspected to have been arranged and financed by members of Nelson's newly-formed gang, including Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, Eddie Green, and John " Red " Hamilton, with the understanding that Dillinger would repay some part of the bribe money out of his share of the first robbery.
On the afternoon of April 20, Nelson, Dillinger, Van Meter, Carroll, Hamilton, and gang associate ( errand-runner ) Pat Reilly, accompanied by Nelson's wife Helen and three girlfriends of the other men, arrived at the secluded Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, for a weekend of rest.
Dillinger, Van Meter, Hamilton, and Carroll immediately escaped through the back of the lodge, which was unguarded, and made their way north on foot through woods and past a lake to commandeer a car and a driver at a resort a mile away.
A day after the Little Bohemia raid, Dillinger, Hamilton, and Van Meter ran through a police road block near Hastings, Minnesota, drawing fire from officers there.
On the morning of June 30, Nelson, Dillinger, Van Meter, and one or more additional accomplices robbed the Merchants National Bank in South Bend, Indiana.
On August 23, Van Meter was ambushed and killed by police in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving Nelson as the sole survivor of the so-called " Second Dillinger Gang ".
For example, in the March 6, 1934 robbery of the Security National Bank & Trust Company in Sioux Falls, Nelson was enraged by the sound of the alarm, demanding to know who set the alarm off, setting him apart from Dillinger and Van Meter, who continued working to the alarm as if it hadn't gone off.
It was here that he first met John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter.
Dillinger and Van Meter were later transferred within the next few years to Michigan City.
Dillinger and Van Meter had posed as tourists at the Peru, Indiana police station prior to Dillinger's arrest to scout out their arsenal.
The year 1934 alone saw the deaths of John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Charles " Pretty Boy " Floyd, Lester " Baby Face Nelson " Gillis, John " Red " Hamilton, Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, and Eddie Green.
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Initially, the FBI suffered some embarrassing foul-ups, in particular with Dillinger and his conspirators.
The plot is foiled when, with the help of a 50-foot-tall incarnation of the goddess Eris, the four members of the AMA are killed: Wilhelm is killed by the monstrous alien being Yog-Sothoth, Wolfgang is shot by John Dillinger, Winifred is drowned by porpoises, and Werner is trapped in a sinking car.
In an interview with reporters, Dillinger said that he was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage " spare the rod and spoil the child ".
As a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting and petty theft ; he was also noted for his " bewildering personality " and bullying of smaller children.
Dillinger was unable to find a job and began planning a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton.
Dillinger was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony.
Dillinger had friends smuggle guns into their prison cells, with which they escaped, four days after Dillinger's capture.
Dillinger was believed to have been associated with gangs who robbed dozens of banks and accumulated a total of more than $ 300, 000.
Dillinger was officially charged with Officer O ' Malley's murder although the identity of the actual killer was debatable, and it is in question whether Dillinger participated in the robbery at all.
Tucson celebrates the historic arrest with an annual " Dillinger Days " festival, the highlight of which is a reenactment.
Sam Cahoon, the janitor that Dillinger first took hostage in the jail, believed that Dillinger had carved the gun with a razor and some shelving in his cell.
Before leaving, Dillinger ran the wooden pistol along the bars of the cell in which the people were held and cracked that he had broken their escape proof jail with nothing but a wooden gun.
After escaping Crown Point, Dillinger began living with his girlfriend Evelyn " Billie " Frechette.
They came face to face with Billie, who alerted Dillinger to the police presence.
She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for " low moral character " and offered the federal agency information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation.
Cumpănaş told them that Dillinger was spending his time with another prostitute, Polly Hamilton, and that she and the couple would be going to see a movie together on the following day.
Dillinger was with Polly Hamilton and Ana Cumpănaş.
Dillinger was struck three ( or four, according to some historians ) times, with two bullets entering the chest, one of them nicking his heart, and the fatal shot-which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye.
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Lebman then sold these " baby machine guns " to Prohibition Era gangsters, the most notable being John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.
* March 13 – John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and their gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa.
In 1933 – 34, seen in retrospect as the heyday of the Depression-era outlaw, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals such as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde.
* 1957: Director Don Siegel's film Baby Face Nelson, starred Mickey Rooney as Nelson and Leo Gordon as Dillinger.
* Gangsters Ma Barker, John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and George " Bugs " Moran lived in Forest Lake from time to time during the 1930s.
Usually referred to by criminal associates as " Jimmy ", Nelson entered into a partnership with John Dillinger, helping him escape from prison in the famed Crown Point, Indiana Jail escape, and was later labeled along with the remaining gang members as public enemy number one.
The night Dillinger arrived in the Twin Cities, Nelson and his friend John Paul Chase were driving when they were cut off by a car driven by a local paint salesman named Theodore Kidder.
According to Bryan Burrough's book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933 – 34, this most likely happened when Wanatka was playing cards with Dillinger, Nelson, and Hamilton.
When Dillinger won a round and raked in the pot, Wanatka caught a glimpse of Dillinger's pistol concealed in his coat, and noticed that Nelson and the others also had shoulder holsters.
Nelson, who had been outside the lodge in the adjacent cabin ( he ultimately was irked that Dillinger got a better room )), characteristically attacked the raiding party head on, exchanging fire with Purvis, before retreating into the lodge under a return volley from other agents.
Hamilton reportedly died in hiding on April 30 or May 1, 1934, and was secretly buried by Dillinger and others including Nelson, who had rejoined the gang in Aurora, Illinois.
Nelson was the antithesis of popular, Robin Hood-like gangsters of the Depression era, which included Dillinger.
* Dillinger, a 1973 film featuring Richard Dreyfuss as Nelson
He is noted for leading the manhunts that tracked such outlaws as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger.
1933 Essex-Terraplane 8-cylinder cars were believed to have the highest horsepower-to-weight ratio of any production automobiles in the world, and were favored by several gangsters of the day, particularly John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and John Paul Chase, for their lightness, acceleration, handling, and discreet appearance.
The lecture becomes the narration of flashbacks as he tells of his life as an agent combating various crimes and criminals, including the Ku Klux Klan, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, and spies.
Following the Kansas City Massacre average citizens and civic groups decided that they had had enough and started to demand actions against gangsters like Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde.
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