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FVE INQUIRY |
. BOARDS SPEED
+) ‘BREAK’ PROBE’
“Dillinger’s Wife” Identified |
| as John Hamilton's
Pp) — "| Girl Friend.
ig * I OUTSIDE PLOT : PLOT SUSPECTED,
btful | —_—
Hamilton, Only Gang Member
3) Not Captured, Believed
of | Behind Escape.
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oop, | Crown Point, Ind., March | m
r-in-|9-— (AP) —Evidence that] di
d. John Dillinger had been in
st in |Etequent communication with | ec
was | members of his outlaw gang | th
ning | While confined in the Lake| w
county jail was uncovered; a}
was} today as five investigations
thly | went forward into his amaz-i fe
faj_) ing escape from the jai) with j j a
w [ja wooden pistol last Satur-
told | day.
een dai! attaches identified |
the; pictures of Elaine Burton,
‘ore | Sweetheart of John Hamil-
ton, as a woman who posed |
ring| as Dillinger’s wife and visit-
t taJed him several times in his
uzh-} cel], Hamilton is the only
iseg | @ader in Dillinger's notori-
. |ous band who has not been
inal | Captured. :
tked| She visited Dillinger several Up
te- | times, jai} officials said, and some-
nen, | times tpiked with him outside the
; presence of gurrds.. They said her
Ll last visit was last Thureday—two
(days before Dillinger’s escape. Vi
“the | Dillinger insisted when he was|4 +
|captured with Marry Pierpont and | bea
y OF) others of hig g@ng of banle rcbbers | lel
WeS {at Tucson, Ariz., s¢me weeks ago | uph
» {that Hamilton was dead. - Police |a™
*¥' lfound’ evidence to the contrary,| it
"UP land today’s development convinced | con:
re 'them Hamilton had e part in plan- imu
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hat | ning Dillinger's departure,
lin“ : a te
be | Hamilton is wanted for a dozen
spectacules crimes, including bank
robberies and Lhe Killing of a Chi-
cago policeman who attampted te
capture him. He was one of 10
men whose delivery Dillinger en-
gineered last summer from the In-
diana state penitentiary at Michi-
gan City.
In return, Hamilton, Pierpont,
tand others freed Dillinger from a a
jail at Lime, O., killing a sheriff] ema,
in the process, of ti
Jai! officiala said Miss Burton, | erty
captured af Tucson with ihe others, | foret
was inttoduced to them by Attor-| Th
¥S (ney Louis Piquctt of Chicago, DIM-} Jui
:inger's lawyer, as the prisoner's | cline
wife. tion |
During her first visits, they said.) En
a_guard assigned to sec that she | the!
ar-!smuggled nothing to her 91 more
Na | husband overheard her whiapering After
p-, numbers to Dillinger, The guard, main
ay; Ralph Pierce, believed the svyoman | smaii
ki was using cade and forced her to | below
| desis st. Qn later visits, however,; 7h
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hold
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