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FOUR ESCAPE FROM INDIANA STATE PRISON Three Life-Termers Walk Away From Pen at Michigan City. TOTAL PASSES TWENTY Two Negroes, Including Cook at Warden's Home, Are Free. As John Dillinger and other former inmates of the Indiana state prison continued their escapades of death and destruction today, four prisoners, three serving life terms, were tree from the Michigan City prison, following a week-end escape. The escape of the four men. revealed today, brings the total number o: men who have fled the state institution in the last year to more than a score. Harry Pierpont. Charles Maklev and Russell Clark leaders ot the “terror mob,” led seven other men to freedom from the prison last September. The men who escaped from the state prison over the week-end included Lelanri Phillips. 26. serving a life term for murder, and Noah Peals, serving a three-year sentence for second-degree robbery. Both men are white. They escaped from the prison farm west, of the jail, it was revealed today. Willard Butler. 27. and Charles Irwin. 36, both Negroes, serving life terms for murder, escaped Sunday, i * was learned. Butler was cook in the home of Warden Louis Kunkel. Irwin worked in one of the prison buildings. Butler and Irwin, according to the prison authorities, had no difficulties in making their escape, as their duties took them beyond the prison walls. Phillips and Seals were reported to be under heavy guard on special work assigned them on the farm. Sentenced to the state prison in 1926. Phillips was sent up from Richmond for the murder of Frank Buck. Butler was sentenced from Danville. Ind.. in September. 1925. Irwin was sentenced from Indianapolis in September. 1922, and Seals from Rockport. Spencer county, in September. 1932. OHIO YOUTH REPORTED KIDNAPED FROM AUTO Athletes Car Found; Note Demands SIO,OOO Ransom. By United Press FINDLAY. 0., April 23. —The abandoned automobile of Donald Schoonover, 21. former athlete of Liberty Township high school. Hancock county, was found near the youth's home early today. A note found in the car by Sheriff Lyle Harvitt said Schoonover had been kidnaped and demanded almost SIO,OOO ransom. The note was crudely written, and said further instructions for paying the money would be given Schoonover's family today. PHYSICIANS' TRIAL TO OPEN HERE TOMORROW Dr. Waltermire Accused of Performing Criminal Operation. Trial of Dr. Tell C. Waltermire. charged with performing a criminal operation, is scheduled to begin tomorrow before Criminal Judge Frank Baker. Frederick Steiger and Gerritt Bates, deputy prosecutor, will represent the state. T. Ernest Maholm is defense attorney. Two indictments are pending against Dr. Waltermire. He is free under a $2,500 bond. Conviction on the charge carries a 3-to-14-year sentence in the Indiana .state prison. 2 HOMES DESTROYED IN $15,000 CITY FIRE Blaze of Unknown Origin Occurs While Occupants Are Away. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the homes of Frank Parkman and Godfrey Yeager, near Keystone avenue and Seventy-first street, early yesterday, with a total loss estimated at more than $15,000. Residents of both houses were away from home at th# time, the Parkman family being out of the city. ROOSEVELT DEFIED BY SENATE SjLVER BLOC Group Votes to Back Mandatory Metal Legislation. By United Pres * WASHINGTON. April 23.—The senate silver bloc defied President Roosevelt today and voted to support mandatory silver legislation at this session of congress. The vote was reached after two hours of discussion at which the bloc indicated a wide divergence of views as to the steps to be taken. Times Index Page Bndge 5 Broun .. .. 9 Business News 6 Classified IT. 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Gardening 8 Hickman—Theaters 16 Hobby 5 Masonic History 2 Pegiar 9 Radio 6 Sport* 12. 13 State News 2 Vital Statistics 13 Woman s Pages 4, 5
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L’AFFAIRE STAVISKY can pea Arch Crook Genius of Sin
Alexander Stavi*liv, French swindler, shot himself to death in an Alpine chalet. Hu death let lon*e upon France a whirlwind of national passion that sent two gorernments rrashing. threatened the existence of the third Republic, and left riots, deaths and suicides in its wake. "L'AfTaire Stavisky” has become the most colossal politico-financial scandal in the history of France. The stpry of Starisky is not a single drama. It is a multitude of melodramas. It is a story stranger than fiction. The United Press assigned Samuel Dasliiell and Thomas Cope of its Paris staff to tell the whole amazing story. Here Is the first of a series of articles dealing with ‘‘L’Affaire Staviskv the super-scandal of this century. u BY SAMVEL DASHIELL AND THOMAS COPE United Press Staff Correspondents 1 (Copyright. 1934. by United Press! PARIS, April 23.—Alexander-Serge Stavisky was not. like many of his associates, the product of the French underworld. Instead, he descended to the underworld from a heritage of respectability, and bent the underworld to his own crooked purposes. He was a born genius in what the bible calls “original sin.” From the time, as a school boy in a middle-class Lycee, when he began swindling his play-fellows as a youthful bookmaker, until the night of Jan. 8. 1934. when, he sent a bullet crashing through his brain,
his life was a long series of dangerous games played with evil characters. His career was a succession of gambles, of intrigue, forgery, white slavery, confidence games. His associates were apaches, murderers, thieves, card sharps and—politicians in high places. Yet, through the thirty years when he actively operated, he seemed strangely immune to punishment —seemed untouchable for his sins. The answer to this immunity was bribery. He had an ever-readv check book. Serge Stavisky was born near Kieff. Russia, in 1886. His father, a respectable and able dentist, moved to Paris with the boy in 1900. At school. Serge met boys whose names were later to figure high in French annals, as journalists. lawyers, artists and statesmen. He made friends quickly. A splendid looking, attractive, magnetic young man. with deep set and “honest” blue eyes, a strong chin and clean features, he had personality that brought him friendship from men and adoration from women. He was a good student, but he devoted his studies to the halfworld—to the theaters and cabarets. to the race tracks and gambling casinos. And at 16, he shocked his mother by the bold announcement that he already had assumed man's stature by taking a mistress. At 26. young Stavisky had his first brush with the police. Together with a group of disreputable companions, he was arrested (Turn to Page Two) S7OO TAKEN BY SAFE PACKERS Yeggs Knock Combination Off Safe; Loot May Be Higher. Loot, estimated at between S7OO and $1,200 was obtained by yeggs who yesterday knocked the combination from the safe in the office of the Sterling Loan Company, 15 East Washington street. Room 203. The robbery was discovered last night by an employe of the building who entered the office to clean it. The burglars obtained the cash from two money drawers removed from the safe. Two other safes wpre opened during the week-end, police were notified. No money was obtained from an unlocked safe in the office of the Hollander Brothers cleaning shop, 914 Virginia avenue. The burglars obtained S2O from the cash register. Only $6 was reported missing from the safe of the BrowningGent automobile agency. 1001 North Meridian street. ENFORCEMENT POWERS SOUGHT FOR CAFE CODE Complaints Recognized in Hoke Decision on Situation. Recognition of scores of complaints against the restaurant code is contained in the decision of Fred Hoke. Nationai Emergency Council director. to seek enforcement powers for the Indiana restaurant code authority. Mr. Hoke, who has left for Washington. said a request for authority to enforce the code has been made by J. F. O'Mahoney. Indiana State Restaurant Association secretary and code authority chairman. Enforcement of other codes in Indiana also will be discussed while he is in Washington. Mr. Hoke said.
NRA Used by Money Lobby in Efforts j to Knife Stocks Act, Rayburn Reveals
BY THOMAS L. STOKES (Copyright, 1934. by Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance) WASHINGTON. April 23.—A powerful interlocking financial and industrial lobby, with an NRA and House of Morgan hookup, was revealed today in a determined drive against the Fleteher-Raybum stock market bill and the federal securities act. The fight of this lobby, one of the biggest and best organized ever seen here, has been intensified to high pitch as the stock market bill nears house and senate floors and as President Roosevelt calls upon congress for prompt passage of a strong regulatory measure. Evidence in the hands of Chairman Sam Rayburn (Dem., Tex.), of the house interstate commerce committee indicates the direct contact among the nation's great financial banking and corporate interests— J. P. Morgan & Cos., the New York Stock Exchange, the so-called Dur- %
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WORKER BEATEN IN MILL STRIKE 700 Resume Picketing at Three City Plants: Violence Reported. • Striking hosiery mill workers today resumed picketing of the three mills, with between 700 and 800 strikers on the picket line after a week-end rest, the mills being closed Saturday and yesterday. John Fisher, 25. of 1430 North Illinois street. Real Silk worker, was beaten severely by five men, said to have been strikers, as he walked near the mill today. He was taken to city hospital for treatment. Police were notified by three Real Silk workers that when they stopped at 1156 West Thirty-fourth street today to pick up another worker, strikers threw' a brick through their car windshield. Following report of disorder near Thirty-fourth and Clifton streets, police arrested three men riding in a car near the scene. They gave their names as John Hagerty, 26, of 1418 Comer avenue; Jess Woods, 32. of 450 East Walnut street, and Russell Morris. 32. of 232 Grant avenue. All three were said to be strikers. Minor disorders marred the weekend. George Madden. 950 North Parker avenue, a Real Silk mill employe. told police last night that five men overturned his car while it was parked in front of 2614 East North street. One man w'as struck on the head w'ith a baseball bat and several others injured slightly at Riverside park yesterday in a fight between members of a Real Silk mill employes’ baseball team, and men said to be hosiery mill strikers. According to police reports, the fight started when one of the spectators called the ball players "scabs.” William Smith, national hosiery union official, w'ho has been directing the strikers here, went to Philadelphia Saturday to attend a meeting of the hosiery code authority, of which he is a member. He was expected to return tonight. GREAT BRITAIN QUERIES JAPAN ON HER POLICY Clarification of Pronouncement on Far East Sought. By United Press LONDON. April 23. Great Britain has addressed a communication to Japan seeking clarification of the recent Tokio pronouncement of policy in the Far East, Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, informed the house of commons today.
able Goods Industries Committee and the National Manufacturers’ Association. George H. Houston, chairman of the Durable Goods committee, recently created under NRA auspices, told the Scripps-Howard newspapers that he had discussed with Averil Harriman the general situation affecting the lack of investment in the capital goods industries, which he blames upon the securities act and the stock market bill. Mr. Harriman, scion of the railroad family, recently was put in charge of NRA reorganization under Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, a role of great influence. The use of the NRA by the financial groups as well as the tactics they are employing, has so aroused Mr. Rayburn that he plans to bare the whole story before the house when he makes his opening address on the bill upon its presentation in a few days. The house com-
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DILLINGER WAGING RUNNING GUN BATTLE WITH ST. PAUL POLICE AFTER ESCAPE IN WISCONSIN
John Hamilton, Homer Van Meter / and Tommy Carroll Desperado's Pals in Daring Escape, U. S. Asserts. ESCAPED BY WATER, AGENTS HINT ‘Tip’ Yesterday Led to Fatal Raid, Justice Department Reveals in Report of Struggle With Mobsters. By L nitrrl Press WASHINGTON, April 23. —John Dillinger and four members of his gang were definitely identified today as the gunmen who shot themselves out of a federal trap in northern Wisconsin. The gangsters who escaped, according to AttorneyGeneral Homer S. Cummings, were .John Dillinger, Tom Carroll, Homer Van Meter and John Hamilton. The three persons who were killed were one department of justice agent, W. Carter Baum, a CCC worker and a constable.
Three others were wounded, including a department of justice agent, Jay G. Newman, and two CCC workers. The department of justice, by means of airplane, automobile and railroad, massed a dozen men at the Dillinger raid early this morning and an additional dozen had reached the scene early today. The following description of the escape of Dillinger was given today by the department of justice: “The division of investigation, I pursuing its investigation for the j apprehension of John Dillinger and members of his gang, ascertained that Dillinger was staying at a roadhouse fifty miles north of Rhinelander, Wis. “Agents of the division offices at St. Paul and Chicago, both 500 miles j away, proceeded tb this spot, arriving there Sunday night. Upon approaching the house their presence became known by reason of some watchdogs which were maintained at the inn. Before the house could become completely surrounded, three men left the house and got into an automobile. CCC Workers Fail to Stop “They were commanded to stop and were informed that the men ordering them to stop were government officers. They did not stop, 1 and agents of the division shot at 1 the tires of their automobile. Immediately upon this being done machine gun firing started from the house and in the exchange of fire between the house and our agents, the three men in the car were shot, one being killed and the other two being wounded. It was later ascertained that these three men were members of the civilian conservation corps, which has camps in that vicinity. “Firing continued between the house and our agents, who had by that time surrounded the house from the landside. Firing then ceased in the house for a time, and two of our agents proceeded to a residence in the vicinity to make a telephone call to the town of Rhinelander, in order to issue instructions to other agents of the division who were due to arrive. Upon approaching the residence they were stopped by a man and asked to their identity. “When they informed this man they were government agents the man started firing upon agents of the division, killing agent W. Carter Baum, and wounding in the head special agent Jay G. Newman, both attached to the Chicago office of this division. With these two special agents at the time was a constable, who was wounded fatally. Three Cars Stolen “Subsequent investigation disclosed that the man who shot and killed our agent had called at the residence to commander an automobile belonging to the owner and following the shooting of our agents this man stole an automobile and departed from the vicinity. “It also was ascertained that two j
mittee was expected to report its bill today or tomorrow. The senate banking committee has reported its companion measure. The picture is that of the New York Stock Exchange and J. P. Morgan satellites directing a propaganda campaign by frightening business. banks and corporations throughout the country. Key figures in this campaign are said to be: Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange and brother of George Whitney, partner in J. p. Morgan & Cos., and Roland Redmond, counsel for the stock exchange. George H. Houston, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works and head of the Durable Goods Industries committee, created at the recent general NRA session here, which climaxed weeks of activity recently by seeking to enlist all code (Turn to Page Two.)
other automobiles in the vicinity had been stolen. The numbers of these stolen automobiles were ascertained by agents of this division, and were immediately broadcast. “It was impossible to enter the roadhouse until daylight this morning, at which time three women were taken in custody. It has been definitely ascertained that John Dillinger, Tom Carroll, Homer Van Meter and John Hamilton had been at the inn with these three women since last Friday. After the firing, which had taken place between the inn and our agents upon the ground, it is believed that these four desperadoes escaped from the inn from the water side of the same. Outlaw's Weapons Held “There was found at the house two automobiles used by John Dillinger in which was his baggage, two machine guns, two rifles, revolvers and ammunition. “The entire resources of the division in that area are being utilized to bring about the apprehension of Dillinger and his three associates.” “We got a bad break,” William Stanley, assistant to • the attorneygeneral, said today. Mr. Stanley said that the country i in which the gang eluded the army of department of justice agents is I heavily wooded and that it was pitch dark at the time of the escape, making it difficult for agents to carry out their work. Tip Led to Raid At the same time, J. Edgar ! Hoover, chief of the division of investigation. refused to confirm or deny whether John Dillinger had suffered a leg wound in a recent encounter with the police. He refused to indicate in which direction the gangsters were heading presumably because it might inform the gangsters as to the operations of the federal agents. Mr. Hoover said that the raid on the Wisconsin roadhouse was planned early yesterday following a “tip” as to the whereabouts of Dillinger. He said justice, agents began centering on the inn early yesterday afternoon. TROLLEY WORKERS GET $24,000 BONUS Employes Receive Checks Averaging $20.11. Charles W. Chase, president of the Indianapolis Railways and Peoples Motor Coach Company, announced today that checks amounting to approximately $24,000 now are being distributed to employes of the combined companies. These checks, according to Mr. j Chase, represent one-fourth of the surplus earnings of the company for the three months’ period ending March 31. The average amount of checks for all employes was $20.11. Wage dividend payments now being distributed to employes are in accordance with an agreeement signed by the companies and the general council of the empoyes last December, under the empioyes’ representation plan. CAVE EXPLORER DIES IN 65-FOOT PLUNGE CCC Workers Extricate Kentuckian's Body After Five Hours. By United Press GLASGOW JUNCTION. Ky., j April 23.—-The body of Paul Turner, l 25, was removed today from the | sixt£-five-foot depths of a cave in which he fell to his death while ex- j ploring the cavern’s circuitous; passages. Thirty-five CCC rescuers extricated the body after five hours work. Young Turner lowered himself into the cavern, six miles from the sand cave where Floyd Collins lost his life in 1925. to investigate possibilities of developing a tourist atattraction. A friend. Donald Byrd, 15, heard him fall to his death.
DILUNGER AID SLEW OFFICER, SAYS SHERIFF Wisconsin Policeman Tells of Encounter With Gang in Roadhouse. BY D. A. M’GREGOR (U’ndersheriff of Vilas County, Wisconsin) Written for the United Press EAGLE RIVER, Wis., April 23. The ambush of John Dillinger and ten of his confederates, including four women, by federal agents at a roadhouse in the western part of Vilas county came with such swiftness that it's hard now to remember just exactly what happened. But there was plenty of shooting and whatever may be said about John Dillinger and his gang they surely have plenty of nerve when they are cornered. It was about 10:20 o'clock when I received a call from the department of justice agents at Spider Lake, forty-seven miles west of here, telling me to highball over there with as many men and guns as I could collect. Gathered 20 Deputies I got together twenty deputies and conservation department men and we sped to the Little Bohemia roadhouse on State Highway 51 where al rien had shot it out with Dillinger’s crowd about a half hour before I received the call. Two men had been killed and one wounded in that first battle and shortly after we arrived in the vicinity one of the gangsters, kidnaping a youth and forcing him to drive him through the ambushed officers, tried a daring escape. He forced the youngster to drive him to farmhouse about a mile down the road, where he stole another car and as he drove out of the farmyard he was met by town constable Carl Christianson of Spider Lake, the federal agent named Newman and two other federal men. He pulled out an automatic and emptieed it on the officers, mowing down Christianson and Newman. Then He sped away. Four Women Jailed I have three of the four women who were with the gang locked up in jail here but they won't say a word—won't even give their names. I also have the Buick sedan which was captured at the Little Bohemia. There were three machine guns and a large quantity of ammunition in the car. I talked with Emil Winetka. proprietor of the Little Bohemia, which is located, in a wooded tract about 400 yards off the main highway. He told me that Dillinger and his crowd took possession of the place for thirty-six hours, holding himself, his wife, their 8-year-old son and two employes in fear of their lives. MRS.MASSIEBETTER, QUITS CLINIC SUNDAY Assault Case Figure Now ‘Different Woman,’ Doctor Says. (Copyright. 1934, by United Press) GENOA, Italy, April 23. Mrs. Thalia Massie, central figure in the Honolulu assault case, who tried to kill herself in despair, has been regenerated and will be released on Sunday a “different woman,” it was officially announced today. Dr. Emilio Borelli, head of the mental clinic where she has been under treatment, reported to the king’s procurator that nearly three weeks of rest in the friendly atmosphere of the Italian villa has given her anew outlook on life. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 45 10 a. m .... 64 7a. m 47 11 a. m 65 Ba. m 55 12 (noon).. 68 9 a. m..... 61 1 p. m 69
Woman Decapitated in Crash; Acton Man Killed
A woman was killed, and her husband and three otners injured yesterday when an automobile driven at high speed crashed into the rear of a stalled two-ton trailer and truck in the 4000 block, Massachusetts avenue. Benjamin McCollum, 68, Acton, was injured fatally last night when he was struck by a car as he walked on the Acton road about one-half mile north of the town. The car was driven by Homer Brandt, R. R. 10, anl was stopped within a few feet, Dr. John E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, was told. Mr. McCollum, who was hurled atop the hood of the car, was taken to the office of a physician in Acton and died there a few minutes
later. Mrs. Sadie Metzler, 26, of 2438 Broadway, was decapitated in Massachusetts avenue accident. Others in-
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jured were Edwin Metzler, 31, husband of the victim, injured side and shoulder; Carl Waggoner, 28, of 1321 Blaine avenue, head and face lacer-
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Fifteen Minneapolis Squad Cars Join in Chase; Sheriff’s Machine Raked With Twenty Bullets. THREE MEN IN SPEEDING AUTO Twin Cities’ Officers Believe Themselves Hot on Trail of Feared Desperado; Tommy Carroll by Side. By United Prraa ST. PAUL, April 23.—St. Paul and Dakota county police today engaged in a running gun battle with an automobile bearing three men, one of them believed to be John Dillinger. The automobile was identified as one of those used by the outlaws who fled from the Little Bohemia lodge near Eagle River, Wis., last night. Police here reported that the three occupants of the automobile who fired on Deputy Sheriff Joseph Heinen and his companion near St. Paul park were Dillinger, Tommy Carroll, a Dillinger gangster, and another man whom they had not identified.
They were being - closely pursued by three automobile loads of police armed with machine guns and • other weapons. ■ Fifteen Minneapolis squad cars were sent from Minneapolis with all men armed with rifles and machine guns. The Minneapolis police
Three Slain in Federal Agents’ Raid on Hideout in Wisconsin
By United Press EAGLE RIVER, Wis., April 23.—Hundreds of federal agents and possemen swarmed through a huge wilderness area today searching for John Dillinger and a half dozen associates after three desperate battles in which three men were killed and three others wounded.
Three girl companions of the gangsters were captured and held incommunicado. The battles which raged through the dark forest of this resort country followed forty-eight hours in which Dillinger and his henchmen had held Emil Wanetka, proprietor of Little Bohemia lodge, captive in the resort with his wife, his 8-year-old son and two employes. More than fifty federal agents and local officers engaged in the three battles, in which the gangsters answered assaults with flaming machine guns and the attackers literally blasted doors and windows out of two resorts with buckshot and rifle fire. Three Believed Dead Casualties, so far as could be learned through the federal censorship: Dead: W. Carter Baum, federal agent, Chicago, Eugene Boiseneau, CCC worker, Mellen, Wis. Carl Christiansen, constable, Spider Lake, Wis. Wounded: John Hoffman, city employe, Ironwood, Mich. John Morris, CCC worker. J. C. Newman, federal agent. Capture of Dillinger and all of his companions probably was prevented only by the unfortunate exit from the Little Bohemia resort at the very moment that seventeen federal agents prepared to enter, of three youthful conservation corps workers. Despite shouted orders to halt, the three entered a motor ca x and started away. Someone among the ambushed federal men opened fire with a machine gun, sweeping the car from front to rear. Eugene
ations: his wife, 28, injuries to the left side, and Fred Neighart, 25, of 2438 Broadway, face cuts and bruises. The deaths raised the county traffic toll to thirty-one. George A. Stein, 37, Akron, 0., the truck driver, was questioned by detectives and released. He said he had stopped to make repairs when the crash occured. Police said three electric tail lights and red and green lanterns on the rear of the truck still were burning after the accident. Waggoner was driving the roadster. Riding in the front seat with him were his wife and Mrs. Metzler. Metzler and Neighart were riding in the rumble seat, which collapsed upon them at the impact. Mrs. Metzler was bom In Coal City and had lived in Indianapolis seven years. She is survived by the husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Neighart.of Coal City, and eight brothers and sisters. Last rites will be in Coal City Tuesday afternoon.
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joined the pursuit at the request of federal authorities here. The automobile was first sighted near Grantsburg, Wis., when Heinen fired two shots and the occupants of the car returned his fire. Heinen examined his own car before sending in an alarm to St. Paul police and found about twenty bullet marks. The marks indicated, he said, that those in the fleeing car were using machine guns.
I Boiseneau, 27, died at the wheel and the car careened into a tree. John Hoffman and John Morris were taken from the wreck, wounded and injured internally. Federal Agent Falls ‘The radio was playing in the car,'’ moaned Hoffman, “and then something hit me. I didn’t know anything was wrong before that.” Realizing their error, the agents hastily reformed their lines around the resort, it was learned later that Dillinger, John Hamilton and another gangster had seized the opportunity to flee afoot during the excitement. Other members of the gang, warned, opehed such a fire that the attackers retreated. J. C. Newman, federal agent of Chicago, fell during the sortie with two buffet wounds. While the attackers reformed their lines and summoned aid from Eagle River, Dillinger and his two comnanions reached another nearby resoi t owned by Alvin Koerner, brother of a Milwaukee Alderman. There they demanded a car. Koerner informed them he had none. As they argued, a detail of officers approached. The outlaws opened fire. W. Carter Baum, Chicago federal agent, was killed. Carl Christiansen, Spider Lake town constable, fell critically wounded. He was reported to have died later. Car Is Commandeered The men commandeered a car driven by Robert Johnson, tenant of a resort cottage, and forced him to drive them to Antigo, Wis., where he was thrown out. At least two other men, cornered at a third resort, escaped in a Ford car which federal agents had borrowed from a Rhinelander, Wis., agency. At dawn the agents and deputy sheriffs reattacked the Little Bohemia lodge. Tear gas bombs were thrown into the lodge, forcing to the open the three girls under arrest. None of the three would talk, agents said. Slain Agent Former Lawyer By United Prat WASHINGTON. April 23.—W. Carter Baum, federal agent who was killed in John Dillinger’s escape in Wisconsin, has been with division of investigation of the department of justice since June 30, 1930, and has served as a special agent in the New York and Chicago districts. Prior to his entry in the division of investigation, he practiced law in the District of Columbia. Baum was 29, married, and had two children. He was graduated from McKinley Manual Training high school in the District of Columbia and held an L. L. B. degree from George Washington university. He was a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars. His father lives in California. Hamilton’s Sister Held By United Brest SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich., April 23.—Mrs. Isaac Steve, sister of John Hamilton, was to be arraigned before a United States commissioner today, charged with harboring fugitives from justice.