MACHINE-GUN BATTLE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 93, 3 April 1934, Page 11

MACHINE-GUN BATTLE

U.S. Desperado Escapes Police By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 31. A message from St. Paul’s, Minnesota, states that police and Federal agents, who for a mouth have been searching for John Dillinger, thought they had trapped him to-day in a hideout there, but the desperate gangster, with two companions—one a womanfought hi* way through the police with machine-guns and escaped in an automobile. Bloodstains indicated that one of the trio was wounded. By some miracle there were no casualties among the officers, although mauy shot* were exchanged.

At Crown Point, Indiana, on March 3, John Dillinger, America’* most notorious bank robber and murderer, walked out of the heavily-guarded and supposedly escape-proof Lake County Gaol in a daring bid for liberty rivalling the exploits of Wild West heroes. He cowed hi* guards with a two-ounce piece of wood which was whittled to resemble a pistol and stained with shoe-blacking, and, with a negro convicted of murder, helped himself to two of the gaol's machine-guns. He commandeered the sheriff’* automobile, taking the deputy-sheriff, whom he later released, as hostage. He escaped.