The Dillinger Gang actually didn't begin until Harry Pierpont and nine other men escaped from the Michigan City Prison in Indiana on Sept. 22, 1933. Dillinger had engineered their escape by smuggling guns into them. But luck hadn't been so good for John. Shortly before the prison break, John Dillinger was arrested in Dayton, Ohio and turned over to Lima's jail to await bank robbery charges. Harry Pierpont was loyal to John. He and his men soon broke John out of the Lima jail, having killed the sheriff, Jesse Sarber in the process. And that was only the beginning for them. Up until their capture in Tuscon, Arizona in Jan. of 1934. John was sent back to Crown Point, Indiana to face murder charges. Harry Pierpont, Russell Clark and Charles Makley were sent to Ohio to face the electric chair for killing Sheriff Sarber. Pierpont and Makley would later be found guilty and sentenced to die. Clark would receive life in prison. John would make his escape from Crown Point with a wooden gun. And go on to form another Dillinger Gang. But it would not be the same as before. The bank jobs were not as smooth as they had been with his first gang. By July of 1934, time was running out for John. The F.B.I. cornered him coming out of the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22 and shot him down.

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