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The Pittsburgh Press
Tuesday, April 24, 1934


                       POSSES STALK DILLINGER GANG
                       
                  SHOOT-TO-KILL ORDER GIVEN TO PURSUERS 
                  
                 Abandoned Auto is Found at End of Blind
                         Wisconsin Lumber Road.
                         
                         MAY BE FLEEING AFOOT.
                         
                     Many Clues Baffle Searchers
                     Agents Flying to Area From
                             Philadelphia
                             
        HURLEY, Wis., April 24 - Through snow-covered pine
      forest wildernesses in Northern Wisconsin, and in a
      half dozen cities of the Northwest, Federal agents
      stalked JOHN DILLINGER and his ruthless gang of gun-
      men today.
        A tacit order of "shoot to kill" went with the man-
      hunters.
        From Philadelphia, from Washington, from Chicago 
      and St. Louis hundreds of other Federal officers were
      speeding by plane into the region that DILLINGER has
      made his lair, and where he and his lieutenants yes-
      terday wrote a new and bloody chapter in the annals 
      of crime.
        Momentarily the chase centered in two areas:
        In St. Paul, where a carload of fleeing gunmen was
      sighted late yesterday only to vanish into the Twin
      Cities.
        And in Northern Wisconsin, where another carload
      of gangsters was seen early this morning. This last
      lead seemed the hottest.
      
                        May Be Fleeing Afoot.
        Discovery of a Packard sedan, stolen early yester-
      day by two of the DILLINGER gang, at the end of a
      blind road near here, led to trebled activity. Pur-
      suers believed the desperate men, afraid to return
      over their route when they discovered their road was
      a short lumber road, took to the woods afoot.
        It seemed impossible that the notorious DILLINGER
      and his henchmen, could evade capture.
        The area, big as it is, in which the fugatives are
      known to be, is being ringed with a veritable band of
      steel as Federal agents, their determination to cap-
      ture DILLINGER fired by the killing of one of their
      comrades yesterday, drew the circle together, smaller
      and smaller.
        The gigantic search, in which even Indians of the
      Lac De Flambeau and La Pointe Reservations took part,
      seemed to point toward the wide open, roistering
      border town of Hurley, only a few miles from Eagle
      River, where the disastrous gunfights with Federal
      agents and the subsequent escape took place yester-
      day.
        After yesterday's hot pursuit of three of the
      gangsters from Eagle River to St. Paul, with the
      gunmen battling a deputy sheriff and stealing a
      motor car en route. It was believed today that they
      had doubled back through the north country and then
      abandoned their car on the blind road.
      
                       HOUSEWIVES AFRAID
        In isolated farm houses, therefore, housewives
      bolted their doors.
        Lonely country stores were closed.
        The whole countryside watched roads apprehensively.
        A score of brawny lumberjacks, armed only with
      double-bitted axes and contemptuously unafraid of
      machine-guns, left Hurley this morning to join in
      patrolling roads leading to the Canadian border.
        While the huge army of officers thrown into the
      search concentrated on the wilderness area, they
      gave active attention also to other reports.
        A Milwaukee street car conductor told police that
      he saw a car containing four rifle-armed men leaving
      the Milwaukee city limits. Police and deputy sheriffs
      took up a pursuit through the country.
        With a definite announcement from Justice Depart-
      ment officials at Chicago, it was learned that
      casualties in yesterday's fighting were two dead
      and four wounded.
        Earlier reports had placed the fatalities at
      three and four. This was due partly to the rigid
      censorship the Federal agents clamped on all news
      and partly to the wilderness-like nature of upper
      Wisconsin, dotted with hundreds of lakes all con-
      nected by small, winding, bumpy dirt roads. Tele-
      phones are scarce in this region, news from there
      is hard to get and then harder still to get out
      to more populated communities.
      
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