Dillinger’s Indiana Outlaws
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
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Law enforcement officials and fellow bandits alike lose their lives in the hunt for the desperate criminals who escaped from the Michigan City prison and murdered a sheriff in getting John Dillinger out of jail. In the meantime, Dillinger and his companions continue their spree of mayhem across the Mid [...]
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| 0:00.0 | True Crime Historian Presents, Yesterday's News, a reading from America's historic newspapers from the golden age of yellow journalism. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Richard O. Jones, here to present Chapter 2 of The Gangster Chronicles, a special edition of yesterday's news, focusing on the notorious scoundrels of the Prohibition and Depression eras. |
| 0:48.9 | We're going to begin this series with newspaper accounts of the Trail of Terror blazed by one of America's most famous, |
| 0:56.2 | perhaps most beloved gangsters, John Dillinger. |
| 1:00.0 | From the time he was paroled from the Michigan City Prison in May, 1933, to the time he was |
| 1:06.6 | gunned down by police on a Chicago sidewalk 14 months later, John Herbert Dillinger was one of America's most notorious scoundrels. |
| 1:15.6 | In this ongoing series The Gangster Chronicles, True Crime Historian will take a look at the newspapers of the era to see how Dillinger's reputation and legend grew. |
| 1:25.6 | Bear in mind that we're reading here from the first |
| 1:29.0 | draft of history, and things may have been reported that were proved inaccurate later on. Notorious |
| 1:35.1 | as he was, Dillinger was often blamed, or credited, if you will, for crimes he may not have |
| 1:41.0 | committed. In Chapter 1, we looked at the daring escape from the Lima jail |
| 1:45.9 | that resulted in the murder of Sheriff Jesse Sarber and the beginning of the search for the |
| 1:50.8 | Indiana outlaws. Chapter 2 will look at newspaper coverage of the Dillinger Gang's Trail of Terror |
| 1:56.7 | blazed across the Midwest in the waning months of 1933. |
| 2:05.4 | Here's Chapter 2. |
| 2:09.8 | Dillinger's Indiana Outlaws. |
| 2:15.3 | Indianapolis, Indiana, October 21st, 1933. |
| 2:20.8 | Fearing a wholesale delivery of underworld characters in Indiana jails and prisons, |
| 2:26.7 | law enforcement officials today took drastic steps to combat a roving band of desperate criminals. |
| 2:33.3 | The band contains at least five of the ten |
| 2:36.3 | convicts who escaped from the Indiana State Prison on September 26th. John Dillinger, who was |
| 2:42.5 | freed from the Lyme in jail last week, Merritt Longbreak, who escaped from the jail at Bell |
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