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Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2023
What did John Dillinger secretly whisper to the FBI after being shot?
Between 1928 and 1936 John Dillinger reigned as the most
famous criminal in American history being proclaimed Public
Enemy number 1. It was an achievement he was proud of and once boasted
“All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and
wear a mask. Now that it’s happened I guess I’m just about
the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.”
Dillinger became a folk hero to many people during the Great
Depression. He was seen as a Robin Hood type character who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor.
On several occasions he refused to take money from
customers during a during robberies saying I only want the
bank’s money not yours.
As Dillinger’s fame rose BOI Director J Edgar Hoover came
under great pressure to capture him so he brought in Special
Agent Melvin Purvis. Purvis was a skilled law enforcement
officer and a national hero. He was responsible for helping
to bring down some of the most notorious criminals of the
1930s including Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd.
Dillinger was very likeable and had a sense of humor.
On one occasion he sent a letter to Henry Ford
complimenting Ford he was driving.
Hello Old Pal: - Arrived here at 10 AM today. Would like
to drop in and see you. You have a wonderful car. Been
driving it for three weeks. It's a treat to drive one. Your
slogan should be, Drive a Ford and watch the other cars
fall behind you. I can make any other car take a Ford's
dust. Bye-Bye.
After a shootout with Purvis and his men Dillinger and
several members of his gang fled to a Wisconsin small
vacation lodge called Little Bohemia
The Bureau received a call on Sunday morning, April 22 that
Dillinger and his gang were hiding out there
Purvis and several BOI agents were approaching the lodge in
the dark when 3 men exited the building and began to drive
off. When the car failed to stop the agents opened up fire
and the innocent driver was killed.
Dillinger and some of the gang were upstairs in the lodge
when they heard the gun shots. After an exchange of
gunfire with the agents, Dillinger and his men escaped out
the back of the building.
This was a huge embarrassment for the BOI. Hoover was
furious and assigned special agents Charles B. Winstead,
Clarence O. Hurt, and Herman E. Hollis to assist Purvis and
find Dillinger.
After the Little Bohemia shootout Dillinger headed back to
Chicago and hid out at a local brothel run by a Romanian
Madam immigrant named Ana Sage being threatened with
deportation. She makes a deal with Purvis to turn in Dillinger
in exchange for stopping her deportation and also getting
the $5000 reward money.
The deal is made and on Sunday July 22 , 1934 Ana Sage
calls Purvis and tells him she and Dillinger and one of her
girls Polly Hamilton would be going to either the Biograph or
Marbro theatre that night but she didn’t know which one.
Since the feature at the Marbro was a kids movie Purvis
decided Dillinger would show up at the Biograph that was
showing a gangster movie with Clark Gable called
Manhattan Melodrama
Ana Sage said she would be wearing an Orange dress not a
red dress at the newdpspers reported. The reason that was
given for it was because the theatre lights gave it a reddish
hue.
When the film ended at approximately 10:30, Purvis standing
by the front door of the theatre lites a cigar as Dillinger and
the woman walked by. This was a signal for the agents to
close in. Sensing something was going down Dillinger
glanced across the street, then took off running into a
nearby alley
Three agents chased Dillinger into the alley and fired.
Clarence Hurt shot twice, Charles Winstead three times, and
Herman Hollis once. Dillinger was hit from behind and fell
face first to the ground.
Dillinger was struck four times, with the fatal bullet entering
through the back of his neck, severing his spinal cord.
Winstead was later credited with fired the fatal shot, and
received a personal letter of commendation [specify] from J.
Edgar Hoover.
Two female bystanders, Theresa Paulas and Etta Natalsky,
were wounded in the shooting but survived
There were reports of people dipping their handkerchiefs
and skirts into the pool of blood that had formed, as Dillinger
lay in the alley, as keepsakes: "Souvenir hunters madly
dipped newspapers in the blood that stained the pavement.
Handkerchiefs were whipped out and used to mop up the
blood.
There is a controversy that remains to this day as to what
Dillinger’s last words were.
In the movie when Dillinger and Billie meet one of the songs
they dance to is Bye Bye Blackbird
According to an unnamed fellow agent Charles Winstead
told him that when he got to Dillinger and leaned down over
him he whispered Tell Billie Bye Bye Blackbird in the alley
that night.
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