1934-07-23 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934.

DILLINGER SHOT DEAD

(Continued From Page 1)

states since his escape from gool last March, and in that time he SECOND GAOL BREAK

has notted £20,000 from bank rob- In attempting to prevent their beries alone. Night Sheriff Sarber was killed.

Three months later, while leading

£100,000 AMASSED.

In the past year he is estimat his gang of gaoi-breakers, Dillingered to have amassed a total of was arrested and charged with the £100,000 by his depredations, and sheriff's murder, as well a with to have cost the Federal Au- being connected with 100 other mur-thorities £300,000.

ders and bandit outrages.

Dillinger was lodged in the 49- cape-proof" gaol at Crowpoint-a prison run on "model" nes by al

When, a week before he should have been brought to trial. Dillinger escaped, Mrs. Holley had hysterics,

An even more appalling es timate is that 15 people, includ ing five policemen, have lost

Evelyn Frechette," half- Indian sweetheart of Dillinger

re-

To-day's Short Story.

OLD LOZA'S MANGO

HE agent led the way across a mouse.

THE

By Richard Carol.

But Old Loza had re-l

the garden, overgrown with covered from her first surprise. It weeds and bastard flowers, dead it was to be a fight, well, she had as long as the now-forgotten fought before."

prince who had once dwelt in the She stopped back, rau a critical miniature rococo palace which it eye over the greeny-yellow spikes of Behind him came flowers that smothered the tree like surrounded.

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Every Man and Woman

MUST Should See It

HOWARD HUGHES

LOOT

It

"Sitta illa rub," came the relent-

their Hves during the man-hunt. desperate at his inability to woman warden, Mrs. Lillian Helley, Dillinger has been many times establish contact with the gang Old Loza, waddling well despite tiny bouquets of mignonette. to await his trial on March 12 befriended by the public during after his abortive attempt to reach her eighty years and the long gave all the promise of a good crop, she and she could always reckon on a Offers of strengthened forces to his amazing series of escapades. St. Paul, only left the Catfish hut

dust-draggled galabeyahe guard the desperado were rejected At St. Paul's a doctor and a nurse when he discovered he was unable wore under her black milayah, plastre or two more for four or five by the warden with the remark, were arrested for attending his to secure help from the Redskin

so numerous (for she mangoes than the others. She was dresses relatives of Evelyn Frechette, never discarded an old one) that an institution: she knew it and "We can take care of the gaul our-wound.

'TWO POLICEMEN SHOT Dillinger's sweetheart, who is half she herself had but a vague idea traded on it. selves."

The murder of two policemen Indian,

as to their count. Old Loza wad- "Wa nuss," she snapped with a was last month attributed to John HOLLYWOOD GAOL KEYS dled, but it was a dignified wad nod of finality. Dillinger and his gang.

When the St. Paul police arrest dle like that of a drum-major The two policemen, Martin Oed Evelyn Frechetta. they made an grown over-fat: but the proces oss voice.

sion she headed of half a dozen The gangster got out of the gao! Brien and Lloyd Mulvihill, were extraordinary discovery.

Then Old Loza panicked. It was in her vanity, bag were men in galabeyah and tarboush beyond her understanding. No one by a bare-faced piece of bluff. With assigned to the task of "getling

In their swift little duplicate keys of Hollywood or crocheted takaya straggled in ever-bid more than five gineh for a "pistol" fashioned out of wood, he Dillinger."

police station. How she got her wake in a casual disorder. the trees. There was something held up his warder and, with a motor-ear they had been trailing

them is a mystery, .There is By a forty-foot mango In the strange about it. all. But she would Negro colleague, seized a machine suspects and following up possi-

no record of her ever having

extreme corner of the garden the gun from Mrs. Holler's office, drove ble clues along the Indiana ronds.

In a deserted section of East been there. the warders into cells, and walked

agent stopped, pulled out his note have her mango, have it even if she lost over it. The loose skin tighten- Detectives, armed with portable book and stood a moment while, Olded over her jaw. out into the prison yard, where he Chicago, Indiana, a workman on appropriated Mrs. Holley's car and his way home came across a police machine-guns and tear-gas bombs, Leza and the half dozen gathered

car stopped in the middle of the concentrated on Squaw Lake, round. road.

where Dillinger was thought to be. "What am I bid?" he asked with- He looked inside. The two Each scattered bungalow was sur-out further preamble. policemen were dead, each with rounded before they searched it. "Four gineh." rapped Old Loza

drove off.

20,000 POLICE ON TRAIL Twenty thousant policemen werej put on the trail of the gangster, to begin the amazing serles of raids] and escapes which have culminated in his death. Within the past three mouths Dillinger is said to have staged spectacular raids at:

St. Cloud Florida: When with!

two accomplices, armed with machine-guns, he walked into a bank and took £2,000.

Warsaw, Indiana: When stole revolvers from a station.

be

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Jack Rabbit Drive," by Robert McAlmon.

"Sitta gineh," she hissed. "Wa rub."

a 'dozen hullets in his head and The police anticipated a de-without hesitation. neck. The motor-car itself was sperate resistance, so refused all "Wa rub." came from one of the riddled with bullet holes. The offers of help from numerous men, and the moving pencil sudden- revolvers of both men lay be-civilian volunteers who believedly stopped in the air. side them on the seat.

that the police were badly handi- The agent looked hard at the man! Their murderers caught them in capped owing to their ignorance who had put in the hid.. Ab, that explained it! He was a stranger to moment of surprise, probably of the wild country. speeding past the police car and

BANKNOTES LEFT

the annual auction of the fruit of It was mad. The eyes of the raking it with machine-guns. An added incentive was given to the mango trees and didn't know agent and the five others gazed at the search by the disclosure that that this trea was Old Loza's tree, the two bidders in hopeless bewilder-

a

25,000 REWARDS

"Wa nuss." "Saba illa rub."

The Governors of five States each the Dillinger gang left three bags had been hers for twenty years. ment. police offered $5,000 for the capture of of banknotes in their hurried es-She always bid a fair four gineh, "Saba gineh," cried Old Loza, and

the arch-criminal.

cape from Mercer. These were and it was understood that no one it was a cry of despair. Sioux Falls, Dakota: Where The murder of the two pellec-identified as among those which bid against her. He turned his gave "Wa rub," pounced the other fought his way out of the town men was by a daring raid on the Mr. Edward Bremner's family paid to Old Loza, who was staring at the with a deadly precision-and Old) town carrying with him four girl South Holland Trust and Savings as ransom for the kidnapped St.man In angry surprise.

Loza turned away. bank clerks as hostages.

Bank, situated in a village close Paul banker last January,

Suddenly the agent realised his "Seven and a quarter," repeated St. Paul, Minnesota: Where to the Indiana border.

One of America's song-hits position. After all, it was an aue the agent, looked round, paused a he was shot at and wounded by There were no witnesses of the "I'm heading for the last round-tion.

moment, then entered it in his book. police when nearly cornered, day's crime, but the police believe up"-has been sung with special "Four and a quarter I am offer "There are the other trees," he but fought his way to liberty. that the five men and one woman reference to Dillinger.

ed," he announced, and looked in-suggested, almost in apology, but Port Huron, Michigan: Where participating in the raid were

quiringly at Old Loza.

He she seemed not to hear him. his presence was disclosed by those who killed the policemen on the death in a

moved off and the men followed him; gun fight of sight.

left. Old Loza with the mango tree that had been hers for 20 summera, put but was hers no longer.

Herbert Younghusband, the People imagine that Dillinger Negro who escaped with him must have been one of them, but from Crownpoint gaol.

if he was he was not recognised.

Dying Gangster Says Chief Dead.

"Wa nuss." snapped the old woman, her eyes never leaving the stranger.

"Khamsa la rub," the man

A hint that Dillinger was dead in without hesitation.

She stumbled up to it. leaned The courage of the bank em-and secretly buried was made "Four and three-quarters," re against it and her worn hands crept ployees frustrated an attempt by Tommy Carroll, chief peated the agent. "Five less around its rough trunk. stroked It, to steal the cash. They killed lieutenant of the gunman-killer quarter. Any

caressed it. For a while she stood one gunman, and seriously in- in a deathbed statement, at Wa-

"Khamsa," came through

the thus in a

strange, understanding jured a second, who died later terloo, Iowa, on June 7.

clenched teeth of Old Loza.

gilence. Then suddenly her old, in hospital. His companion re- Seeking to clarfy the reports, "Wa rub." There was something bloodless Hips opened round,

and fused to forsake his wounded Secret Service Agent O. H. Hewey almost frightening about the calm, pal, and, despite the bullets fly asked the dying Carroll what had inhuman way the two words follow ing around, helped him to safe-happened to Dillinger.

ed on, pounced on here like a cat

Pana, Illinois: Where he'rald- ed a bank, knocked a watchmani unconscious, overpowered clerks as they arrived, and forced a cashier to open a safe from which he took 25,000. Coincident with the raid at Pana, Governor White, of Ohio, received a message from Dillinger threatening that unless he Im mediately released two gangsters

The two reached the motor-car, under sentence of electrocution, which was occupied by two men he would be shot.

and a woman.

IRON NERVE SHOWN

The week before Dillinger show- ed his iron nerve by dyeing his hair red and attending a family} reunion at Moresville. Indiana, to the intense gratification of his

ty,

Red Indian Aids Dramatic Escape,

"Where did you bury John " he

asked.

"I bid him," Carroll gasped, and SOLICITOR

died.

Carroll was one of the several accomplices of Dillinger who have been killed, wounded or captured:

past year.

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from her throat past the rattling tongue came a weird, high-pitched

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shrilling. And the men across the MONSTER SILVER ATTACK ON

garden shivered a little in the hot

sun.

on

The auction was over and the agent had departed, his work that property over for the year

FROM CASE for the palace was haunted, and no

by officers of the law during the Separate Hearing Not

Granted.

DOUBT DISPELLED

one over came to look over it. But

Old Loza still remained with her

PURCHASE

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WATCHMAN

Description Given To Police.

KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS BY CLUNT INSTRUMENT

·

1,300,000,000 Ounces For U.S. Treasury.

ROOSEVELT'S SCHEME

News was received at Chicago

mango. Then, at last, she left it.

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL recently of an amazing attempt A trio, however, believed to be

dragged her slow way through the.

(By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra father. Dillinger was in another made by one of Dillinger's hench-the outlaw, and two of his aldea, FRESH ASSIGNMENTS ALLOWED most hidden by the bougainvillea ceited July 25, 9.34 a.m.)

garden, paat the long verandah al-phie Messages Ordinance, 1894. Kr- State by the time the police had men to secure help from the on June 14 abducted three persons picked up his 'trail.

The United States Postmaster- underworld for his chief. The latat Davenport, Iowa, and immed- ON BEHALF OF TWO ACCUSED with its pale yellow flowerets peep-

Wong Chung, the 64-year-old It seemed that the climax had

ON MURDER CHARGE ing out from the scarlet-purple General, Mr. James A. Furley, watchman of Shing Mun dyna- ter, with two or three gangsters, fately disappeared in a stolen au-| eventually been reached on the

masses like early stars from a sun-speaking at Reno, this afternoon mite magazine, who was attack. night of Sunday, April 22 when was then believed to be hiding in tomobile, thus dispelling the be

one of the deserted summer bunga-lief that Dillinger was dead.

An unusual incident occurred set sky. She saw nothing of It will say that President Rooseed by four men in the early Dillinger and his gang were aur lows at Squaw Lake (Wisconsin).

GOVERNOR THREATENED at the Criminal Sessions, Su-dragged on, unthinking, unseeing, velt is purchasing 1,300,000,000 hours of Sunday morning, has re- rounded in the Bohemia Hotel, a! This desperate bid at a moment Last month, steel-helmeted mi-preme Court this morning, till she stood again below the man ounces of silver with a view to ported to the police that at drinking resort in the small town when the police thought they had litia were sent to guard the house when, on the refusal by the go-tree, her mango-tree--but out increasing currency as well as to about 4.30 a.m. he was on duty of Mercer, Wisconsin.

cornered Dillinger was made by of Mr. Rugby Laffon. Governor of Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. Mac-side the iron railing that enclosed stabilise the price.

when four men approached him. The luck was still with the gang George "Babyface" Nelson. Guided Kentucky, who received a latter Gregor, to grant a separate hear the garden.

President Roosevelt he will way, two of the men asked him for a' ster, however, for the police gave by "Old Catfish," a Red Indian, he algned "Dillinger Squad" threa-ing in the case of Lam Sum and Here it was at the three-way cor does not intend to bid the price match, and when he replied that their presence away when they slipped through the police cordon. tening him with death unless hea married woman, Wong Ying, ner she had eat each summer for to U.S.$1.20 per cunce immediate he had none, they attacked him. opened fire on a car leaving the Nelson was with Dillinger when ordered the release of Neal-Bow charged with the murder of Chul twenty summers with the green-ly, but will remove the surplus and took his brown leather purse, 'hotel in the false impression that he escaped from the Little Bohemia man, a gangster then awaiting Kwal, alias, Chui Li, at Sap Pat yellow mangoes in baskets beside from the markets gradually to containing $10.00 in money, a

the wanted man was Inside.

trial road-house at Mercer.

Heung, New Territories, on May her, fresh-eulled each morning from raise the price to U.S.$1.29 gold ring, valued at $10, and a The shots, which killed one of Stealing a car he then tried to “GET DILLINGER OR DIE 18, Mr. R. C. H. Lim, the defend, the net-encircled tree, once by her "When this is accomplished, ell-silver watch, valued at $4. the occupants of the car and reach St. Paul. But the finding of squad of detectives named ing counsel, instructed by Mr. grandson, Mohammed, then by Ah-ver will be stabilised at that price One man grabbed his cont and wounded the other two, ended all this car abandoned convinced the "The Formidable Forty" was re- O. E C. Marton, asked to with med, her great-grandson of twenty and other nations will be ready pulled him to the ground, while the hope of surprising Dillinger and police that, foiled by the cordons cently appointed to "get Dillinger draw from the case as he was years. Here in July and August to join the United States in res other knocked him unconscious by his desperate followers, The round St. Paul, he had turned back or die in the attempt."

acquainted with the pleas of she had held her court, received the opening mints for silver coinage hitting him on the head with a blunt police attacked the hotel to be re-and rejoined Dillinger and the rest

both prisoners.: be

English sitts who came from the "The Administrations gold ne- Instrument... ceived by a devastating burst of of the gang.

A short adjournment was called huge block of flats which shaded her tion was the greatest monetary When he recovered consciousness machine-gun and revolver fire.

after which His Lordship said that from the southern sun and paid fust step of the age," he will add.— he found himself bound to a camp sergeant, was at their head. ⠀ TEAR-GAS BOMBS

It appears, however, that he did Federal agents chasing the eluhe appreciated Mr. Lim's positions plastre or two more to get Old United Fress, per & E. Levy and chair, ten yards from the place Twice the police and Federal not do so, for within 24 hours of the sive bandit were equipped with new and would adjourn the case until Loza's mangoes.

Company. agents attacked and twice they Little Bohemia raid he was back machine guna said to be "the most next Monday to allow fresh assign She was still living again these

| feet and hands were bound with were repulsed. When eventual within 25 miles of Mercer. powerful ever used outside the menta on behalf of both the accused glories of the past when Ahmed, OVERFLOW AT TYTAM

to be made.

that great-grandson of twenty years,

On being examined it was found (Continued on Page 7) arrived with his donkey cart to *** (Continued from page 1) that there was a small bruise on the

fetch her home. She told him

right side of Wong's head. BOMB TOSSED INNOCENTLY nothing, just allowed him to help Kowloon suffered from minor Wong describes his assailants as KILLS 7 AND WOUNDS 25'; her up on to the bare boards, where foods yesterday- evening, follow-being of medium height and build, she sat, cross-legged, hugging her ing several very heavy showers und between the ages of 28 and 80 are concentrated on the western Saint Germain, Enlaye, France, black milayeh round her, swaying between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. In years, both having the appearance borders in an effort to capture July 17-Seven soldiers were killed to a rhythm of despair...

Nathan Road, near Boundary Road of workmen. The other two stood Changting, frontier town which and 26-wounded when A tromper

Women.

f

EQUAW FORCED TO COOK

An expert sharphooter nam.

ed Frank Reynolds, a bachelor

BIG "RED DRIVE EXPECTED

ly, with the aid of tear-gas bombs. These detalls have been mainly Army." the authorities forced the occup-supplied to the police by Old Cat ants of the hotel to surrender, fish, who said that Nelson, armed their total capture was three with three revolvers, broke into his

hut near the Lac de Flambeau.

Nelson threatened the Indian family, consisting of a squaw, two boys and a month-old papoose, with a gun.

(Continued from page 1.) The Nanking troops in Fukien

where he had been" attacked.

"

His

Dillinger got away, a polloss man being killed in the pro- cess, A Federal agent had been killed during "one of the

Over Zamalek Bridge and along the depth of the water was, in too far away for him to describe attacks.

He forbade them to leave the has been in the hands of the Rede tossed a bomb to frighten his com, the bank of the Nile till they came places as much as a foot, while in them The gangster did not escape un- hut and made the woman cook for for three years. It is of strategic raden.

mal to the village of Zarkha, a few some Instances it gained entry to s scathed, for the police learned him. The next morning he took importance and commands the that he had received a wound in Old Catfish with him, stole a car, gateway to Klangel. the shoulder which prevented the from a house a few miles away, Cantonese forces are located at Meanwhile, General use of one arm. He was also and compelled the Indian to guide Waping, Shanghang, and Yongching, and Yu Han-mon, wounded in the leg.

hiin by rough roads towards St. ting, towns. In Tuklen cloze

officers of the Canton Dillinger, once a farm labourer Paul. He threw Catfish out when Kwangtung. It is stated that Red troops, will remain and the son of a greengrocer, has they neared open country. ** General: Chlang Kai-shek wishes after a meeting on garrison spread terror throughout, a dozen The police thought that Nelson, these Cantonese units to attack at the end of the month

Changting.

dozen huts clustered round a paint the ground floors of buildings. by heavy, washaways of dirt and rubble from the hillsides, and from blistered: cafe. Then Ahmed help anged her down, and she disappeared RAPID FLUCTUATION blocks of land on which, building Into the hut where she lived with The height of the water is in progress. The dirt prevents a anti- her grandson, Mohammed, his wife, fuctuated very rapidly, dropping free passage for the water through ntil and Ahmed, that great-grandson of sway to almost nothing 15 minutes the gullies and drains, which, while affaire hers.

after the downpour had subsided.. there is a heavy rush of water, are

The floods are apparently caused unable to cope with the flow.

(continuri:on: Paga 10,15