The Archive · 1934

Mother Killed by Police St. Louis

'The tragedy and death' that stalks jon the trail of John Dillinger, the killer, claimed the mother of' two small enildren to-day as she slept on the floor of her home with her un~ employed husband and babies.

Apparently tensed with expect tion in view of the outlaw's reputa-ion as a Killer, the agents imagined they "heard shots inside the house. [They opened tire.

Dillinger was the nowhere in.

Police immediately arrested Mr. ILear Reed, chief of the federal agents jin St. Louis, and held him on a US $5.00, "bona to answer possible charges.

The Department of Justice in JWashington ordered an investigation into the slaying but otherwise made comment pending a full report,—[United Press.

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