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4: THE BAYING OF THE HOUNDS
1 Hoover, p. 143.
2 Blake to Vetterli, July 7, 1933, KCM #220.
3 Charles Winstead, untitled autobiographical essay, p. 22. Winstead’s essay, written shortly before his death in 1972, is on file at the Red River Historical Museum in Sherman, Texas.
4 Detective Weatherford’s role is described in Dallas report, Aug. 18, 1933, UKM #293.
5 Fugitives, p. 137.
6 Phillips, p. 152.
7 Ibid.
8 Dexter (Ia.) Sentinel, Oct. 5, 1967.
9 Dallas report, Aug. 7, 1933, UKF #99.
10 Kirkpatrick tells his story in Crimes Paradise, Naylor Press, San Antonio, Tex., 1934.
11 No explanation for the incident is contained in FBI files. The flooded-engine story is told by Lew Louderback in The Bad Ones, Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, Conn., 1968.
12 Kirkpatrick, p. 86.
13 Letter, N.Y. office to Oklahoma City office, July 31, 1933, KCM #413.
14 The Mathias investigation is described in an August 5, 1933, New York office report, KCM #418.
15 This version of Charles Urschel’s debriefing I found in a thin volume not cited in bibliographies of Depression-era criminal literature. The book, a biography of Jones, is A Man Named Jones, by George Ellis.
16 Ellis, p. 113.
17 Colvin to Hoover, Aug. 11, 1933, UKF #201.
18 Jones and Bailey told consistent versions of their confrontation. Ellis, p. 136. Haley, p. 134. Fitzpatrick, p. 130.
19 Serb World USA, May/June 1992, p. 48.
20 Both Toland and Cromie assert Dillinger vaulted the railing at Montpelier, as he had at Dalesville. Contemporary newspaper accounts do not mention such a leap. Bluffton Evening News-Banner, Aug. 4, 1933; Fort Wayne News-Sentinal, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Hartford City Times-Gazette, Aug. 5, 1933.
5: THE KID JIMMY
1 I am deeply indebted to a Chicago amateur historian, Tom Smysyn, who discovered these articles during the early 1990s, for bringing them to my attention.
2 Chicago Tribune, January 7, 1930.
3 Chicago Tribune, January 23, 1930.
4 Chicago Tribune, April 1, 1930; Chicago Herald & Examiner, April 1, 1930.
5 Chicago Herald, October 8, 1930.
6 Chicago Tribune, February 15, 1931. The article contains a lengthy list of the gang’s confirmed crimes.
7 Chicago Tribune, Joliet Evening Herald, February 18, 1932.
8 The story of Bentz’s tutelage of Nelson is told in an article Bentz, then in prison, wrote in 1951 for Argosy magazine. The salient facts are confirmed in FBI reports.
9 The South St. Paul robbery is one of the Barker-Karpis Gang’s more confusing to unravel. Fitzgerald would later claim that Bryan Bolton and George Ziegler took part; according to Karpis, they didn’t. Karpis says the gang’s fifth man that day was Bill Weaver, and says it was Weaver who first shot Officer Yeaman, who was then further wounded by fire from Fred Barker’s Thompson gun. All the witnesses but one indicate Fred Barker emerged from the car along with Fitzgerald and Dock Barker. The owner of the bar where Weaver waited would later claim Barker waited with him.
10 Dallas report, UKF #508.
11 The Arnolds’ story is told in detail in an Oklahoma City report, UKF #732.
12 Chicago report, Nov. 13, 1933, UKF #994.
13 Gus Jones, Oklahoma City report, Oct. 3, 1933, UKF #732.
14 Colvin report, UKF #1110.
15 Durham’s story told in Dallas report, Sept. 25, 1933, UKF #598.
16 Details of the Kellys’ Chicago trip are told by Geralene Arnold in a Chicago report, Nov. 13, 1933, UKF #994.
17 Letter, Purvis to Hoover, Dec. 18, 1933, UKF, #1039.
18 Memo to D. O. Smith, Oct. 24, 1933, UKF, #956.
19 Dayton Daily News, Sept. 22, 1933, Dayton Herald, Sept. 23, 1933. Toland, p. 108.
20 Karpis transcripts, tape 15.
21 Chicago Daily Times, Sept. 25, 1933.
22 Statements from Cass Coleman and Geralene Arnold, UKF #918.
23 The story of Rorer’s morning is told in detail in a Birmingham report, Oct. 6, 1933, UKF #778.
24 Chicago American, Sept. 26, 1933.
6: THE STREETS OF CHICAGO
1 Toland, pp. 6 -8.
2 Chicago Reader, July 20, 1984.
3 Toland, p. 127.
4 Auburn (Ind.) Evening Star, Oct. 16, 1934.
5 Indianapolis Times, Oct. 21,