AMERICAN CRIMINAL
I RUNNING FIGHT WITH POLICE A NUMBER OF CASUALTIES. MONTREAL, April 23. (Received April 25, at 5.5 p.m.) A message from St. Paul states that John Dillingor, America’s most daring criminal in a generation, is being hotly pursued through the north woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin by an army of police and Federal agents, after having defeated those attempting to capture him in four pitched buttles in the past 12 hours. Since he escaped from Crown Point gaol on March 2 Dillinger has led officers a wild chase through the middle and northern States. To-day with six fellowgangsters and five women he occupied and strongly fortified an amusement: resort in Northern Wisconsin and mounted a machine gun on the roof. Police officers surrounded the place, but, Dillinger managed to shoot his way out with machine gnus. One officer and one bystander were killed. In a quick retreat southward in automobiles ho exchanged fire with Iho officers several times and four officers were seriously injured. It is believed that there were casualties among the gangsters.
To-night hundreds of officers deployed over n vast area in an effort to cover every possible means of escape.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22246, 26 April 1934, Page 9
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