Word: youngblood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government feared by criminals throughout the land. As 1934 began John Dillinger was leading as ruthless a gang of desperadoes as the Midwest had ever known. The Government met ruthlessness with ruthlessness. First Dillinger man to go down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed...
...third and most amazing chapter last week held the Midwest enthralled. That chapter began on March 3 when, with a wooden gun, John Dillinger bluffed his way out of jail at Crown Point, escaped in the woman sheriff's car, taking a negro murderer named Herbert Youngblood with him. (At Port Huron, Mich. Fugitive Youngblood fatally wounded a sheriff before he himself was killed.) From Crown Point in seven weeks Dillinger's bullet-strewn trail wound and rewound through half a dozen states (see map). He arrived in St. Paul with a shoulder wound, got a city health...
With the way to freedom wide open Dillinger invited fellow prisoners to take it with him. "Go to hell! I wouldn't walk two feet with you," replied his cellmate. Herbert Youngblood, a Negro in for murder, alone accepted. They selected two machine guns from the jail arsenal, and, taking Deputy Ernest Blunk as hostage, went to the jail garage. They could not start the two cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand...