Dillinger in the Wind
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Gangster Chronicles is a special edition of Yesterday's News focusing on the notorious scoundrels of the Prohibition and Depression eras.
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We're beginning this series with newspaper accounts of the trail of terror blazed by one of America's most famous, dare I say most beloved, gangsters, John Dillinger.
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From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City prison in May, 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels.
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In chapter one, we looked at the escape of ten convicts from the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan City and the bloody delivery of Dillinger from the Lima, Ohio. In Chapter Two, Dillinger and his new gang blazed a trail of terror across the Midwest. In chapter three, Dillinger gets quietly captured in Tuscon, but makes another daring escape, this time, using a gun he made from broomstick.
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With Dillinger again in the wind, state and now federal police launch a desperate manhunt while the gangster continues his trail of terror.
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For source information and clips related to this installment of the Gangster Chronicles, visit www.truecrimehistorian.com, where you can also find additional stories about the scandals, scoundrels and scourges of America's past, as well as information about my books and my TwoDollar Terror series of true crime novellas.
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And come back here next month for Chapter 5 in the Dillinger saga when the notorious scoundrel once more narrowly escape arrest in a deadly police raid at Little Bohemia.Lodge in Wisconsin.
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| 0:00.0 | Lima, Ohio, March 4, 1934. |
| 0:10.0 | Three henchmen of John Dillinger wore their best suits all day today, hopefully awaiting arrival of the fugitive to deliver them from jail. |
| 0:18.0 | But Dillinger failed to arrive. |
| 0:20.0 | Deputies at the jail where Sheriff Jess L. Sarber was shot |
| 0:23.6 | to death last fall in a previous exhibition of Dillinger's contempt for prisons were quick to note the |
| 0:29.5 | changed dispositions of Harry Pierpont, Charles Mackley, and Russell Clark held here for the Sarber |
| 0:35.1 | murder. The prisoners heard a scanty report of the gang leader's |
| 0:39.3 | fantastic departure from custody over a radio in the sheriff's office. Then came a report |
| 0:45.3 | that Dillinger was somewhere near New Stark, Ohio, not far from Lima. The three immediately |
| 0:51.3 | discarded the pajamas in which they had been lounging and put on street clothes they had been allowed to keep in their cells sheriff don sarber son of the slain official said to-day the trio has spent most of the time since their arraignments and pajamas |
| 1:05.3 | with dillinger on the loose again his pal's outlook has changed they dropped dropped the sour, forlorn expression, which they |
| 1:12.5 | have displayed since being brought here. Authorities thought it likely the gang leader might head |
| 1:17.7 | for this region, where he knows the roads like a fireman. The jail has been transformed into |
| 1:23.7 | something of a fortress. Sandbags weighing approximately a ton have been thrown against the front door of the sheriff's residence on the inside. |
| 1:31.3 | Both Sheriff Sarber and Brigadier General Harold M. Bush of the Ohio National Guard have doubled their force. True Crime Historian presents Yesterday's News, a reading from America's historic newspapers. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm Richard O. Jones here to present Chapter 4 of the first |
| 2:02.6 | volume of The Gangster Chronicles, a special edition of yesterday's news, focusing on the notorious |
| 2:08.8 | scoundrels of the Prohibition and Depression eras. We're beginning this series with newspaper accounts |
| 2:15.0 | of the Trail of Terror blazed by one of America's most famous, |
| 2:18.9 | dare I say, most beloved gangsters, John Dillinger. From the time he was paroled from the |
| 2:24.9 | Michigan City prison in May 1933, to the time he was gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk |
| 2:31.5 | 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's |
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