SAFE IN GAOL
DESPERATE AMERICAN GANGSTER ELABORATE POLICE PRECAUTIONS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CROWN POINT (Indiana), January 31Jack Dillinger, the gangster, was safely locked in gaol here to-night to await trial on a charge of slaying a policeman. Officers brought him here from Tucson by aeroplane. The most elaborate precautions in the country’s criminal history were taken for fear of a possible attempt by gangsters to liberate Dillinger. When the plane landed at Chicago 117 heavily armed policemen surrounded and escorted Dillinger to an automobile. Then, under a guard of sixty-one policemen armed with machine guns and pistols and wearing bullet-proof vests, desperado was brought here. The guard was under the following order: “ If any attempt to rescue Dillinger is made kill him immediately.” Specially detailed police and deputy sheriffs with machine guns have been assigned to guard the gaol inside and outside.
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Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 9
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142SAFE IN GAOL Evening Star, Issue 21634, 1 February 1934, Page 9
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