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Sometime in late April or early May, Hamer claimed, he came close to capturing Bonnie and Clyde at the John Cole house. “The end would have come [then],” Hamer remembered, “had not some local and federal officers made a drag on Ruston, Louisiana, and when Clyde heard of it, he quit the country and I had to wait for him to return.”

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Forty years later, Ted Hinton put this discussion on Sunday, May 20, leading many researchers to believe Methvin separated from Bonnie and Clyde on Saturday, May 19; in fact, if Hinton did talk with the Shreveport police about the sighting of Clyde, it must have been Tuesday afternoon, May 22. In his 1936 testimony, Methvin clearly stated the incident at the Majestic Café occurred that Tuesday morning.

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Ted Hinton claimed Methvin grew so bothersome he was briefly handcuffed to a tree.

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James J. Probasco was no stranger to Chicago police. Since 1921 he had two arrests for possession of stolen goods but had never been convicted. Over the years he had dabbled in everything from prize fighting to a veterinary business.

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News of Helen Gillis’s disappearance did not surface in the Chicago papers for three weeks. When it did, on June 22, Ed Tamm called Sam Cowley and told him to deny the story.

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It is not clear from FBI files how or when Purvis learned of his demotion. The files contain a single mention of a trip Purvis made to Washington that week; presumably it was then that Hoover explained the changes to him.

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On June 11 Dillinger accompanied Hamilton to the Chicago medical examiner’s downtown office, where she received injections and filled out papers necessary for a new waitressing job. That visit, and three others to the same office, were disclosed by the Chicago Daily Times after Dillinger’s death.

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Now the suburb of Skokie, Illinois.

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The Bureau had made a stab at tailing Piquett on May 19 but had given up the surveillance after barely two days. Apparently it took too many men.

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The schoolhouse, which no longer exists, stood two miles north of the intersection of State Highways 53 and 62 (now Algonquin Road), in the town of Arlington Heights.

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It was Lieder who stowed Dillinger’s red panel truck in his garage that May. At the same time, he sold Van Meter his new maroon Ford.

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Negri was thoroughly debriefed by the FBI after his capture in December 1934. He gave the Bureau only fragmentary accounts of the South Bend planning meetings. In 1941 Negri co-authored a series of lurid articles on Baby Face Nelson’s career in Master Detective magazine. In these articles, he elaborated considerably. Unfortunately, many of these details, including a tale of a Dillinger visit and aborted raid on Nevada’s Hoover Dam, are clearly figments of his imagination. The author has accepted Negri’s accounts only where they parallel what he told the FBI in 1934 and 1935.

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Dillinger knew the neighborhood: the address was one block from the apartment of Billie Frechette’s sister, where he had taken refuge the night of his Crown Point escape.

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A number of latter-day Dillinger enthusiasts have theorized that in this role Zarkovich aided Dillinger at several key moments in his career, providing the shack that May and suggesting the robbery of the East Chicago bank in January. It’s even been speculated it was Zarkovich who smuggled the wooden gun to Dillinger at Crown Point. The notion is not altogether far-fetched; FBI records indicate Zarkovich visited Dillinger at the jail. After Dillinger’s escape Zarkovich did become deeply involved in the escape investigation, a fact some found curious. “I never could understand why Zarkovich was so active in the grand jury investigation,” Judge William Murray told the Chicago Tribune later that summer. “He practically wore a path between the grand jury room and [the prosecutor’s] office.”

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It’s likely Dillinger met Hamilton the weekend of June 9-10, during the first days after having his facial bandages removed.

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The informant may have