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6 Greencastle Banner, Oct. 24, 1933; Indianapolis News, Oct. 22, 1983.
7 Karpis transcripts, tape #15.
8 Letter, Purvis to Kansas City office, Aug. 29, 1933.
9 FBI statements on Miller’s escape in Kansas City Massacre files.
10 Jodil #4, Oct. 23, 1933.
11 Hoover, memo to file, Oct. 24, 1933, Jodil #19.
12 Indianapolis News, June 15, 1955.
13 Chicago Herald and Examiner, Aug. 27, 1934.
14 Mary Kinder, “Four Months with the Dillinger Gang,” Chicago Herald and Examiner, July 30, 1934.
15 “My Adventures with The Dillinger Gang,” Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 1934.
16 Toland, p. 147.
17 Ibid.
18 Cromie, p. 89.
19 Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 1933.
7: AMBUSHES
1 Racine Journal, Nov. 21, 1933.
2 Cromie, pp. 111-12.
3 Toland, p. 149.
4 Memo, Hughes to Hoover, Nov. 9, 1933, Hamm kidnap file, #214.
5 Memo to file, Hoover, Oct. 21, 1933, Hamm kidnap file, #182.
6 F. X. Fay to Kansas City SAC, Nov. 29, 1933, KCM #926.
7 KCM #904.
8 Conroy to Hoover, December 1, 1933, KCM #906.
9 Maccabee, p. 229.
10 “Daring Machine Gun Mob Robs First National Here,” Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Oct. 23, 1933; “It was no gangster movie,” Brainerd Daily Dispatch, December 4, 1988.
11 San Antonio report, June 5, 1934, Jodil #1829. San Antonio Light articles, Dec. 11-15, 1933. A Man Named Jones, p. 157.
8: “AN ATTACK ON ALL WE HOLD DEAR”
1 Cherrington statement, Jodil #2617.
2 Toland, p. 175.
3 Gary Post-Tribune, January 16, 1934.
4 The Times, Hammond, Indiana, July 22, 1984. (Interview with Hobart Wilgus’s widow.)
5 Gary Post-Tribune, January 16, 1934.
6 BKF #66.
7 Chicago Tribune, January 26-29, 1934.
9: A STAR IS BORN
1 Toland, p. 195.
2 BKF #667.
3 Girardin, pp. 72-73.
4 Chicago American, Feb. 9, 1934.
5 Girardin, p. 74.
6 BKF #295.
7 Girardin, pp. 77-78.
8 Simmons, pp. 166-67.
9 Springfield Leader, Feb. 13, 1934.
10 Hamilton, Public Enemy Number 1, p. 33.
11 Phillips, pp. 175-76.
12 Fugitives, pp. 158-59.
13 Simmons, p. 127.
14 Winstead, unpublished manuscript, p. 24.
10: DILLINGER AND NELSON
1 This section, including dialogue, was taken from statements given to the FBI by all the participants, including Cahoon, Blunk, and Warden Baker. The statements are located in a series of Chicago reports from March to May 1935, Jodil #5583, #5692, #5711.
2 This version of events that Saturday is taken from FBI files and the Girardin manuscript. The dialogue is from Girardin.
3 Undated St. Paul and Minneapolis newspaper articles. Memo, Rosen to Tamm, March 14, 1936, Jodil #6648. Undated letter from Kidder relative to Helen Gandy, Jodil #6789.
4 Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader, March 6-7, 1934; South Dakota Hall of Fame magazine, vol. XXI, no. 2, Summer, 1995; Toland, pp. 220-24.
5 Clegg to Hoover, March 3, 1934, Jodil #83.
6 Hoover to Purvis, March 6, 1934, Jodil #93.
7 Cowley to Hoover, March 7, 1934, Jodil #128.
8 Purvis to Hoover, March 31, 1934, Jodil #226.
9 Mason City Globe Gazette, March 14, 1934.
10 Mason City Globe Gazette, August 21, 1973.
11 Mason City Globe Gazette, Feb. 5, 1982.
12 Mason City Globe Gazette, Dec. 24, 1942.
13 Toland, p. 237.
14 New Republic, June 6, 1934.
15 Mason City Globe Gazette, June 26, 1964.
16 Toland, p. 235.
17 Ibid, p. 237.
18 Mortensen statement, April 20, 1934, Jodil #754.
19 Cherrington statement, Jodil #2617.
20 Girardin, p. 121.
21 Ibid.
22 Letter quoted in Alanna Nash article, Satellite Orbit magazine, November 1984.
23 Hoover to Purvis, March 27, 1934, Jodil #204.
11: CRESCENDO
1 Testimony of Det. Henry Cummings, U.S. v. Frechette.
2 Frechette told her story in Startling Detective Adventures, September 1934.
3 Maccabee, p. 221.
4 Phillips, p. 182.
5 Hoover, memo to file, April 1, 1934, Jodil #269.
6 Notesteen’s statement, which quotes Inspector Rorer, is included in Hugh Clegg’s April 9, 1934, report to Hoover, Jodil #467.
7 Cowley, memo summarizing conversation with Clegg, April 19, 1934, Jodil #1574.
8 Hinton, p. 139.
9 Methvin vs. Oklahoma, p. 73.
10 Hubert Dillinger statement, April 11, 1934, Jodil #1090.
11 Ibid.