AMERICAN GANGSTERS
ROUND-UP IN ARIZONA Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. NEW YORK, January 26. A message from Tuscon, Arizona, states that John Dillinger, a desperate gang leader, who was sought on charges of robbing a dozen banks and slaying three police officers, was captured here on Thursday night after a policeman recognised him by his photograph. Three other members of his band were also captured. • 7 (Received January 27, at 1 a.m.) Dillinger,; with three members of the gang, posed in Tucson for three days as wealthy New'Yorkers. They lived in a fashionable dwelling. The • police got a clue through - photographs of Dillinger’s confederates (Makley and Clerk) in a detective magazine. This pair were arrested earlier in tbo_ day in' a nearby house. When Dillinger emerged in his car, accompanied by women, he glanced up and down. The police appeared, and Dillinger, holding a machine gun under his coat, wheeled suddenly. He was ordered to drop it or die. He then surrendered. Ho had 9,000d0l in his pockets. The other man (Pierpont) wag also arrested. He, too, was armed. .
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 13
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178AMERICAN GANGSTERS Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 13
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