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D
 DeAutremont Brothers - Wannabee
train robbers, Hugh, Ray and Roy DeAutremont ambushed a Southern Pacific
Railroad train in southern
Oregon on October 11, 1923. During the robbery,
they shot and killed the train's brakeman, engineer and fireman. The
brothers then used dynamite to blow their way into the mail car but they
used too much and the explosion killed the mail clerk and started a fire
that destroyed the mail car. Though rumor had it they made of with some
$40,000, they actually left empty handed. An extensive manhunt resulted in
the arrest of Hugh DeAutremont who had joined the army under an assumed
name. Before long his brothers were captured in Steubenville, Ohio and all
three were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Hugh DeAutremont was
paroled in 1959 and died just a few months later. Roy was given a frontal
lobotomy while in prison, was paroled in 1983 and died three months later.
Ray was paroled in 1961and went to work as a custodian for the University
of
Oregon. He died on December 22, 1984 in Eugene,
Oregon.
 Dillinger Gang, aka: The Terror Gang (1933-1934) - While
spending 8½
years in the Indiana State Prison for robbery,
John Dillinger hooked up with a
number of unsavory characters that would later form the Dillinger Gang.
Dillinger was paroled in May, 1933
and and almost immediately robbed a bank in Ohio. Police arrested him on
September 22nd and while he was in jail, officers found a document which
seemed to be a plan for a prison break, but the
Dillinger denied knowledge of any
plan. Four days later, using the same plans, eight of
Dillinger's friends escaped from
the Indiana State Prison, using shotguns and rifles which had been
smuggled into their cells. During their escape, they shot two guards. it
was many of these escapees who hooked up with
Dillinger to form a ruthless
criminal gang. Dillinger, along
with such infamous names as Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van Meter, Eddie
Green, Harry Pierpont, Charley Makely, Russell Lee Clark, John Hamilton,
and Thomas Carrol soon began to terrorize the Midwest over the next year,
killing as many as 16 people and robbing as many as 20 banks. With the
exception of Lee Clark, who received a life sentence behind bars, all of
the gangsters met violent deaths before the end of 1934.
Dillinger, who escaped jail twice,
was declared "Public Enemy No. One” before being killed by
FBI agents in
front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934.
John Herbert
"Jackrabbit" Dillinger (1903-1934) - Midwestern bank robber during the
early 1930s, Dillinger was a
dangerous criminal who was responsible for the murder of several police
officers, robbed at least two dozen banks, and escaped from jail twice. -
See full article HERE.
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