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12 Cowley to Hoover, April 7, 1934, Jodil #367.

13 Girardin, p. 139.

14 Chicago summary report, April 18, 1934, Jodil #630. Purvis knew he had botched the arrest. It is the one major arrest he made that is not described in American Agent.

15 Girardin, p. 141.

12: DEATH IN THE NORTH WOODS

1 Associated and United Press dispatches, April 15, 1934.

2 Girardin, p. 143.

3 Ibid., p. 143.

4 Pat Cherrington statement, Chicago report, July 16, 1934, Jodil #2617x.

5 Ibid.

6 St. Paul report, July 16, 1934, Jodil #2655.

7 St. Paul report, May 14, 1934, Jodil #1460.

8 The LaPorte family’s history is told in loving detail in a book written by one of their descendants, Ruth Dickerson Gardner, Lunch at Boney’s Mound.

9 Wanatka statement, Jodil #935.

10 Ibid.

11 Cromie and Pinkston, p. 211.

12 Wanatka told this story often in later years. The details never varied. This version is taken from an interview with the Wisconsin historian Robert Gard.

13 Cromie and Pinkston, p. 208.

14 Ibid., p. 210.

15 Cherrington statement, Jodil #2617.

16 Nan Wanatka’s original note is included in FBI files.

17 Toland, p. 270.

18 Ibid., pp. 270-71.

19 Hoover, memo to file, April 24, 1934, Jodil #1561.

20 One of the great pleasures of perusing the FBI files is reading the statements and reports of those at Little Bohemia. Clegg, Purvis, and Rorer each made multiple reports on the evening’s events. Every other agent on the ground that night also made a report; some are long and detailed, others are a single paragraph.

21 Statement of Agent Virgil Peterson, May 9, 1934, Jodil #1409.

22 Pat Cherrington statement included in Chicago report, July 16, 1934, Jodil #2617.

23 Toland, p. 278. Mitchell statements, Jodil #934.

24 Lange statements in Chicago report, Jodil #934.

13: “AND IT’S DEATH FOR BONNIE AND CLYDE”

1 Washington Times, April 24, 1934.

2 Chicago American, April 27, 1934.

3 Hoover memo to file, April 25, 1934, Jodil #1044.

4 Hoover to Stanley, April 25, 1934, Jodil #882.

5 Statement of James Wilson, including in Chicago report, Sept. 29, 1934, Brekid #2918.

6 Memo summarizing Volney Davis FBI interview, August 26, 1935, Jodil #6344.

7 Chicago report, Sept. 9, 1935, Jodil #6381.

8 Edna Murray, “I Was a Karpis-Barker Gang Moll,” Startling Detective Adventures, October 1936.

9 Ibid.

10 Murray, Startling Detective Adventures.

11 Chicago report, May 17, 1934, Jodil #1478.

12 The aborted raid is described in a Cincinnati report, May 2, 1934, Jodil #1118, and in a May 3, 1934, letter to Hoover from Connelley, Jodil #1787.

13 “Local woman recalls Dillinger hold-up,” Fostoria Review Times, April 10, 1990.

14 “When the Dillinger gang visited Fostoria,” Fostoria Review Times, January 15, 1981.

15 Hoover to Nathan, May 10, 1934, Jodil 1-8x.

16 Nathan to Hoover, June 1, 1934, Jodil #2505.

17 Purvis, pp. 285-86.

18 Time, April 23, 1934.

19 Indianapolis News, April 4, 1934.

20 Each of the agents at the Russ home was obliged to file memos on the stakeout in 1936 after Mrs. Russ complained of damage to her home.

21 Girardin, pp. 159-60.

22 “The Day They Shot Bonnie and Clyde,” by Carroll Rich, p. 37, included in Hunters and Healers, University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, 1971.

23 Ibid., p. 37.

24 Winstead, p. 27.

25 Methvin v. Oklahoma, p. 135.

26 Much of the confusion surrounding the chronology of events lies in the timing of Methvin’s “escape.” Various accounts have placed it anywhere from Saturday evening, May 19 (Milner, Treherne, Hinton) to Monday evening, May 21 (Phillips). In his 1936 testimony in an Oklahoma court, where he stood trial for the murder of Constable Cal Campbell, Methvin makes clear it happened on Tuesday morning, May 22.

27 Hinton, p. 159.

28 Phillips, p. 197. Ringgold Record, April 26, 1968.

29 Hinton, pp. 169-70.

14: NEW FACES

1 Girardin, pp. 162-63.

2 Memo, Cowley to Hoover, May 25, 1934, Jodil #1635.

3 Girardin, p. 170.

4 Ibid.

5 Clegg report, March 11, 1932, included in Hollis personnel file.

6 Ron Owens, Oklahoma Justice, Turner Publishing, 1995, p. 121.

7 Purvis