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Last week a jury at Lima, Ohio condemned Harry Pierpont to the electric chair for shooting the town sheriff in freeing Desperado John Dillinger from Lima's jail last October. Last week in Crown Point, Ind., Deputy Sheriff Blunk and Turnkey Cahoon were arrested, charged with deliberately aiding Desperado Dillinger to bluff his way out of Crown Point's jail fortnight ago with a wooden gun. Last week in Chicago police, chasing automobiles believed to contain Desperado Dillinger, were twice halted by machine gun fire. But these alarms and excursions were less serious to many a politician than...
Said a judge in Crown Point: "This case is beginning to smell." The resignation of Sheriff Lillian Holley, from whose jail Dillinger escaped, was demanded by the county board which threatened to appeal to Governor McNutt if she refused. Democrats throughout Indiana feared that the public reaction to Dillinger's escape would cost their party a fat wad of votes in the next election. Ridicule, most dangerous of all political weapons, was already at work. A Captain of the State Police received a book entitled How to Be a Detective...
...Washington Attorney General Cummings pointed disgustedly at a newspicture of Desperado Dillinger clubbily grouped with Sheriff Holley and Crown Point's Prosecutor Estill (see cut). The photograph was taken six weeks ago when Dillinger was first brought back to Crown Point's jail after his capture in Arizona. Snorted "General" Cummings...
...confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...
...slight, sandy-haired man who gets ideas for some editorials while riding on a roller coaster in Louisville's amusement park, Editor Armentrout remained in jail long enough to pay the price of 50? rather than "50 licks with a black lash" for joining a prisoners' Kangaroo Court. After one hour his lawyer got him out on a writ of habeas corpus...