Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1934 — Page 20

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GAMBLER LAID DILLINGER TRAP, POLICE ASSERT Federal Agents Not Even in Picture, East Chicago Captain Says. (Continued From Page One) case. If I had to go through It all again I think the publicity setup ■would be worked out differently. • The story 1 m going to tell you is going to upset a lot of things that Purvis has given out —but the heck with that. I'm getting sick and tired of seemg reporters pounding at my door at all hours of the day and night. If I see another one I think I'll go crazy. “The man who gave us the original tip off—and he cave it to Mark Zarcovich of our dejiartment—was a Croatian gambler who lived in East Chicago for six or seven months until last summer when he moved to Chicago.'* said Captain O'Neil. Lately, according to what I hear, he’s been running a card game on Chicago's north side I don t know just where. Made Croatian* Friendship “Last year, before the ‘heat* was turned full on Dillinger. this Croatian b°gan to know the No. 1 outlaw through meeting him at gambling games right here in East Chicago. "This Croatian got to know him pretty well. “Then last fall Dillinger went on his long series of rampages, was caught with his gang in Tucson, and wound up in Crown Point jail. “This Croatian heard about his arrest and went over to Crown Point to have a look at him. “Ail right. Now we’ll skip a couple o! months and start over on a date. say. about six weeks ago.” “This Croatian is standing on a corner in Chicago one afternoon when a guy passes him,'* continued Captain O'Neil. He spots him for Dillinger. A couple of days later he sees the same guy again and again he's sure it's Dillinger nobody else. He’s read about the reward offers, of course, and he s a smart Croatian. So one day he rides out to East Chicago and tells Detective Zarcovich what he knows.” Hatch Has Maintained “Zarcovich.” said O'Neil, “goes back to Chicago with him and together they maintain a watch on the Biograph theater where the Croatian has seen Dillinger the most. They sit outside the show in a car and see Dillinger come and go—oh. a number of times.” Captain O'Neil revealed that one day he. too. went along to park near the theater. Dillinger later j showed up. bought a ticket and! went into the show. The detectives and their informant waited until, the outlaw’ came out and then tried, to tail him. But the wily desperado changed ratas and was lost. Then one Sunday the Biograph changed its bill and offered anew picture "Manhattan Melodrama.” “I knew damn well that here was one picture that Dillinger wouldn't miss if he could help it.” said Captain O'Neil, “so I went to Purvis and asked for help. That was on the same day Dillinger was killed. You know the rest.” Persisting in his efforts to find out just what part the mysterious “woman in red” and Polly Hamilton played in the death of the gambler, the reporter asked Captain ONcil to enlarge on this phase of the case. “I tell vou it was a man who

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Mrs. Patrick Campbell Has Role in New Movie — Bl' H ALTER D. HICKMAN

NAMES have a peculiar effect upon me and oftentimes they set my memory box revolving. Today. Ted Nicholas told me that he is bringing to the Lyric theater on Friday for a week's engagement a movie called “One More River”

with Diana Wynyard ard Colin Clive as co-stars. In the supporting cast are listed Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Frank Lawton. Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Stephenson. Lionel Atwill, Kathleen Howard, Gilbert Emery. Alan Morbray, and Jane Wyatt, a young Broadway ingenue who makes her movie

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debut in this picture. The cast includes an imposing array of names but the one that set my thinker to clicking is Mrs. Patrick Campbell. I can remember when Mrs. Campbell came to English's. In those days she was supreme and reported to be one of the most temperamental of stars even though she is English. In different cities when I was a youngster. I stood in stage alleys just to see her leave the theater. Those certainly were the days. Now this great star of such legitimate plays as “The Second Mrs. Tanguary,” “Magda," and “Electra” is now a “distinguished member” of a movie cast. u ti a I DON'T mean to convey by that remark that moviedom has diminished the glory of this great woman, but it simply means that she is not a movie star.

tipped us off—the Croatian gambler —no woman figured in the thing,” said Captain O'Neil wearily, but there was that in his voice which belied the veracity of his words. And to this day although the records of the Chicago police department plainly show that Mrs. Anna Sage and Polly Hamilton were the women who accompanied Dillinger to his last movie and later were detained” by federal agents—the East Chicago detectives will say nothing. “Not one shot was fired by me at Dillinger.” is the only comment Detective Zarcovich would make and the only question he will answer. Sphinxlike, the man who is responsible directly for Dillinger’s end refuses to talk about the case. Perhaps he remembers that John Hamilton and George <Baby Face) Nelson still are at large. Interviewed by the writer in his office at Chicago, Melvin Purvis told the story which has aroused so much criticism. ‘I received a call from a tipster at about 5 p. m. on the day Dillinger was killed,” Mr. Purvis told the writer. “The East Chicago police happened to be in my office at the time. Wp went to the theater and waited for Dillinger to come out.” “Had you ever seen Dillinger in real life?” Mr. Purvis was asked. “No, but I recognized him immediately from his pictures,” was the reply. At that time this remark struck newspapermen as remarkable, for Dillinger had succeeded in altering his appearance to a degree that would leave persons who had known him to doubt his positive identity. Later—a good deal later—the Hoosier detectives were given a bit

i The day may come when she may be. but I always will remember her when she made city after city go jittery when she was announced on' the legitimate stage. The movies are far better off byhaving Mrs. Patrick Campbell in their lists and I hope that she will be able to do on the screen some of the great things she accomplished as a legitimate star. But nd screams or other temperamental words come from the great | actress on the west coast. She is ! doing her small parts well in Holly--1 wood. Perhaps her great starring day in movieland is just around the corner. I hope so. 808 Two Picnics Announced Two important outings will be held at Riverside amusement park this week-end, it is announced. On Friday, the Capitol Dairies will entertain its customers and friends, and on Saturday the Progress Laundry will be host. | The general public is invited to ! attend both picnics, which will continue from noon until midnight each day. The fare on all the rides will be reduced to 3 cents for these two days, and every ride and other fun concession in the big resort will be in operation, including the two : coaster rides. Free admission to the park, free checking of baskets and free park- ! jng for automobiles continue as in the past as a feature of Riverside. a INDIANAPOLIS theaters today offer: “Here Comes the Navy” at ! the Circle; “Handy Andy” at the Apollo; “Cockeyed Cavaliers" at the Lyric, and “The Girl From Mis- | souri” at Loew's Palace.

1 of the credit which they had earned. But by that time Mr. Purvis had made the headlines in a big way. The “mystery” of the “code numbers” on John Dillinger’s memorandum of banks which his terror gang planned to rob, carried in the third article of The Times’ inside story of the bandit gang, has been “solved.” The numbers, which appeared parenthetically next to the names of the towns in which the banks (“jugs” in Dillinger’s picturesque lingo) were located, showed the 1930 census figures of the towns’ populations. This fact escaped state police here as well as the writer At the same time. Captain Matt Leach, of the state police, admitted that he had been equally culpable with local police in failing to check on the cash purchase of a Ford sedan by Evelyn Frechette April 7 when Dillinger was in Indiana polls. Captain Leach said the lead was “obvious" and added he should have had it checked after it was established that Dillinger had been hiding here. Brushing aside all the controverj sies growing out of the Dillinger case as trivial when compared with the chief issue—the end of the bandit—Governor Paul V. McNutt expressed the opinion of the average man in the street.’ “What difference does it make who gets credit for Dillinger's end,” Governor McNutt told The Times. I "The important thing is the exterj mination of an enemy to society. “Dillinger’s career serves to mark j the inevitable answer to a life of I crime.” THE END

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THREE YOUTHS DENY AIDING IN TRUCKHOLDUP Cincinnati Trio Grilled by Police After Capture Near Scene. Police today continued to question three Cincinnati <Oj youths seized yesterday afternoon In the belief they were assailants of an Indianapolis beer truck driver in an attempted holdup in Irvington. The youths are Charles Haynes, 17, whom, police say, has been identified by the driver; William Scanlon, 19, and Howard Monroe. 17. Monroe was caught hiding in a field near the scene of the attempted holdup; Haynes and Scanlon, as they attempted to “bum” rides south on a road a miie from the scene of the crime. All deny participation in the assault. The driver, Robert McDonald, 38, of Twenty-ninth street at Riverside park, just had emerged from Wolfla Brothers, 5478 Brookville road, a beer tavern, with pay for beer delivered there, when the holdup attempt was made. One bandit slugged him on the head with the butt of a revolver, but he managed to run to a nearby filling station to call police, who arrived in time to see the boys running away. The three suspects were caught after a lengthy search through the rank undergrowth in the fields surrounding the Pennsylvania railroad yards between Arlington and Ritter avenues, in which citizen-volunteers assisted. Police hold the theory that the three suspects are the three armed bandits who robbed a filling station in Peru yetserday, kidnaped the driver and brought him to Indianapolis. Gibbons, American Writer, Dead By United Press GRUNDSLEE, Austria, Aug. B. Herbert Adams Gibbons, 54, noted American author, died of a heart attack here yesterday. He was a well-known writer on international arairs.

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SCHOOL HEAD TRIED TO SELL JOBSJS CHARGE 23 Accusations Are Filed Against Ousted Peru Chief. By United Press PERU, Ind„ Aug. B.—A charge that G. W. Youngblood, deposed superintendent of city schools, attempted to sell teacher appointments was among twenty-three accusations filed by the school board in support of its demand for his permanent removal. Among other charges against Youngblood were that he did not co-operate and comply with instructions of the board; that he attempted to intimidate and coerce board members; that he failed to accord the same treatment to all teachers; that he attempted to usurp board duties, and that he attempted without cause to obtain registrations of competent teachers.

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