EXIT DILLINGER

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 9

EXIT DILLINGER

SHOT BY POLICE POSSE

EMERGING FROM THEATRE

HUNTED OUTLAW'S END

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CHICAGO, July 22. The long-sought desperado, John Dillinger, was fatally shot on Sunday night by agents of the Justice Department as lie emerged from a cinema theatre. The officers had waited outside the theatre for more "than two hours after receiving word that Dillinger was there. A woznan bystander was seriously wounded by a stray police bullet. Sixteen agents and police surrounded the. theatre. - The- chief agents said that the men moved forward to arrest the outlaw, but when ho made a motion to draw a pistol from an inside belt they started shooting. -. ~ -Later they found that a second woman bystander had - been wounded slightly. . .Dillinger was', not instantly killed, but was mortally wounded, and died in the ambulance en route to hos-. pital. '"■■-,. .' ■■. •■;■■■■ ,'■ Officers, on examining the. body, found lie "had made desperate efforts to "disguise-his identity. He had had his face-"lifted" by a surgical operation, and had put acid on. his.:-. fingers to obliterate the prints. Nevertheless the police made a x)ositiye identification.'./ /"■'. , : ':•'.•■■■:"■•,■ ■■■'■• -■;"• -■ -..'"'' Diilingor had forsaken his hide-out to see a .gangland picture • entitled ''Manhattan .Melodrama,'' featuring Clark ;Gable and William Powell.