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A DESPERATE GANGSTER / GUARDS COWED WITH SHAM -"'PISTOL.' . % , ; -> ;; >. NEW YORK, March 3.'.:. (-Received March 4, at 6.35 p.m.) At Crown Point (Indiana) Jack Dilliriger,. America's, most -notorious, bank robber and murderer, walked out of the heavily-guarded and supposedly escapeproof Lake County gaol in a daring bid ior liberty, rivalling the exploits of the Wild West heroes. He cowed his guards with a 26z piece,-. of wood which was whittled to resemble a pistol and stained with shoe blacking. With a negro, convicted of murder, he helped himself to two of the gaol's machine-guns. He then commandeered the sheriff's automobile, taking the deputy-sheriff as a hostage, whom he later released, and escaped. Mrs Lillian Holley, sheriff and warden, became hysterical, but after giving the alarm to the police officials at Chicago she resolutely placed herself at„the head of ia search and declared, " If ever I see Dillinger I will shoot him dead with my own pistol." \
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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158ESCAPE FROM GAOL Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 9
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