The Archive · 1934

DILLINGER THOUGHT DEAD

Waterloo, Iowa, June 7.

A hint that John Dillinger, Ai erica's most desperately hunted outlaw since the days of the notorious is dead and secretly made to-day by Tommy Carroll, chief lieutenant of the gunman-killer, in a deathbed statement.

'The whole town and virtually the whole state was thrown into turmoil] by the Killing of the gangster to-day and the possibility that his chief, if not dead, may also be in this vicinity.—United' Press.

Washington, June-8.

President Roosevelt to-day signed a bill authorizing the Department of Sustice to offer $25,000 for the capture of criminals like John Dillinger Reuter,

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