For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest.
He eluded the lawmen of a half-dozen states and.
Dillinger\'s daring escapes-single-handed at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge-and his countless bank robberies excited the imagination of a despondent country.
The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists).
For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest