I'm so stoked to see Christian Bale face off against Johnny Depp today in "Public Enemies." (I've been waiting for months.) For the occasion, copy editor Jess Krout brought in a front page of the Hanover Evening Sun from 1934. It ran an AP story about John Dillinger:
ST. PAUL, MINN., APR. 4. -- Federal guns blazing a leaden retort to gang defiance, had cut close today the trail of the arch-fugitive John Dillinger, and reddened it with the blood of one of his gun-toting pals. Read more on the jump.
In a swift descent last night on a hideout place, officers wounded and captured Eugene Green, a veteran of mid-western crime. Arrested with him was a woman. Officers guarded her identity carefully. It was said she closely resembled Evelyn Frechetti, a girl friend of Dillinger.Green, critically wounded, admitted he was one of three persons who shot their way out of a police trap Saturday. Dillinger himself was understood to have been one of the others. The third, a woman, is presumed to be the Frechetti woman.
Federal men and police conducted last night's raid with great secrecy and declined to [lift] the veil today. Green, under heavy guard, is at the hospital.
Now that's good old gotcha! journalism. Check in Thursday for a review. (Photo: AP)
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