The Lawmen
Have some respect for the men and women
behind the badge. They're here to serve and
protect you from the bad guys. They risk their
lives everyday for you.
It is tragic that lawmen were killed during the Dillinger crime wave. “Baby Face” Nelson himself killed three F.B.I. agents. John Dillinger had supposedly killed William Patrick O'Malley, a East Chicago policeman while robbing a bank there on January 15,1934, but there is no proof to this. And not to forget Jesse Sarber, the sheriff Harry Pierpont killed while breaking John out of the Lima, Ohio jail. Also the careers that had been ruined.
Samuel Cowley, who commanded
John Dillinger's final capture at the
Biograph, along with Melvin Purvis.
Three months later he would be killed by Baby Face.
Sheriff Jess Sarber Killed By Harry Pierpont and Charles
Makley on Oct. 12, 1933
Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Police,
hunted John with a vengeance. But he never caught
him and later would be fired from the force. He
died in a car accident returning from New York in 1955
after trying to promote a manuscript he wrote on Dillinger.
(The manuscript disappeared.)
Sheriff Lillian Holley of Crown Point.
She was a great woman, but was never
able to live down Dillinger escaping from
her jail. She died in Crown Point at the
ripe old age of 103.
{Courtesy:Sandy Jones}
Roy Holley Grave, Lillian's Husband
Killed in Line Of Duty
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
Melvin Purvis. The man who lead the final capture
of Dillinger. He would later resign from the agency
because of indifferences with J.Edgar Hoover. He
supposedly committed suicide in 1960. But now it
is believed it was an accidental death. He had been
trying to remove a tracer bullet out of a gun some kids
had been playing with, when it went off.
Melvin Purvis In Later Years
Martin Zarkovich's Grave. He allegedly aided Anna Sage
in turning Dillinger over to the FBI. At one time she supposedly
had been his mistress.
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
4227 Euclid Ave. East Chicago
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
Policeman William Patrick O'Malley's Grave. Dillinger was
accused of killing him during a East Chicago bank robbery.
There is much speculation if Dillinger actually participated in this.
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
Grave Of State Policeman Eugene Teague. He was killed
accidently by another officer during the capture of Ed Shouse in Paris, Il
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
Patrolman Howard Wagner, killed by
Homer Van Meter during the South Bend
Merchants bank robbery on June 30th, 1934.
Howard Wagner's Grave at the South Bend Cemetery.
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
Sergeant William Shanley's Grave
at the All Saints Cemetery in Chicago.
Killed by John Hamilton on Dec. 14, 1933.
{Courtesy:Estella Cox}
The Lawmen Whose Paths Crossed The Gang
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