John Dillinger a registered owner of any gun he used? Huum- a special order sent from the Crown Point lock-up in Indiana to Meriden for a "stagecoach special Vulcan grade 12??""- Huum- I don't think so--
Melvin Purvis a real "FUBAR" type who wanted to get ahead in Hoover's new "Gang-Busters" team of Feds- Just the kind of nutcase you want in charge of planning your "special ops" missions- He got word that Dillinger and crew were up at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Northern WI- went in and shot up a Ford coupe leaving the parking lot at night, assuming it was Dillinger- Wrong-o-- It was three civilian CCC employees having a few brewskis after work- and yet Hoover kept this trigger happy idiot in the FBI-
Dillinger was, without a doubt, the smartest and the most cunning of all the gangsters extant in his era- from farm roots in IN- he tried not to keep any counter or till money in his "cowboy score" bank heists- just the stuff in the vault- so that the farmers, already pretty much screwed by the Depression and the Dust Bowls, could keep their few hard-earned dollars-
Like all evil-doers, Dillinger had an Achilles heel however- He ignored the wisdom of Don Vito Corleone, who taught that women and the men who traffic in them, are weak and can bring down a powerful man if he makes the mistake of thinking with his zipper instead of what's between his ears-
With Purvis in command, and the fabled Lady In The Red Dress as the key, they ambushed him outside the Biograph Theater, where he had just watched a Clark Gable feature- Luckily this time, no civilians were shot!
