TRIO OF DESPERADOES
ARRESTED IN ARIZONA
POSING AS WEALTHY VISITORS
NEW YORK, January 26.
A message from Tucson, Arizona, states that John Dillinger, a desperate gang leader, sought on charges of robbing a dozen banks and slaying three police officers, was captured there on Thursday night after a policeman had recognised a photograph. Three other members .of his'band were also captured. .'
Dillinger, with'three members of the gang, posed at Tucson for three days as wealthy New Yorkers in a fashionable dwelling. • The police got their clue through photos of his confederates, Makley and Clerk, in a detective magazine. This pair were arrested earlier ip the day in a nearby house, and whon Dillinger emerged to enter his motorcar and glanced up and down, tho police appeared.
Dillinger, holding a machine-gun under his coat, wheeled, suddenly, ibut was orderedto drop it or die. He surrendered. He had 9000 dollars in his pockets. Makley, Clerk, and ,the third man arrested, Pierpont, were: also armed. . -
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 11
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162TRIO OF DESPERADOES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 11
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