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. WOMAN DESCRIBES DEATH OF AGENTS Gives Eye-witness Account of Nelson’s Battle With Officers. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, November 29.—The story of the gun battle Tuesday in which two Department of Justice men were slain near Barrington is told simply and briefly by Mrs. Frances Kramer, who witnessed the fight from a distance of 200 feet. | She testified yesterday at a cor- oner's inquest into the death of Her- man E. Hollis, 31, agent who was slain in the fight in which Inspector Sam- uel P. Cowley also was fatally| ‘wounded. Mrs. Kramer, who operates a filling station, said she heard what she thought was automobile back-firing, | but did not become interested until she heard the screech of brakes. Thinking it was an accident, she ran outside. o “Then I saw the V-8 (the killers’ ear) swing sharply into the parkway,” she said. “The other car could not | make the turn with it and stopped up the road as quickly as possible. “Two men got out of each car. Each one had a gun. They looked like | shotguns. but I couldn't tell. The two | in the V-8 got out of the car so it was between them and the other car. All of them began to shoot. Woman Hides in Weeds. “A woman got out of the V-8 and ran back toward the filling station and hid in the weeds. | “The V-8 was between the men that ! got out of it and the other car. Sud-| denly one of the men from the other car (Cowley) doubled up and fell in the ditch. The other man (Hollis) | started to get behind another car. | “Then one of the gangsters laid his gun across the hood of the car and fired. He hit the man (Hollis) in the head the first shot. I saw his head wobble and he fell down “Then the gangsters ran to the other car (the agents’) d backed it into the parkway. They transferred some stuff from the V-8 into the other and started back west. They stopped to pick up the woman and <ped away.” Mrs. Kramer said she could not describe the two men or the woman, except that the woman was Gark and the men wore no overcoats. Policeman Is Witness. William Gallagher . of Parring- ton, a State highway patrolman, told of the fight as he saw it from a dis- tance of 800 feet ‘The battle was under way, he said, when he heard the shots as he was standing inside a filing station. He looked out, saw the shooting, “ducked back in and grabbed a 32 calibre rifle” and ran out the rear oo He could not shoot immediately, he explained, because he did not xrow who was participating in the battle. As he was running to the scene, one of the two cars was driven away “I pumped bullets at it as fast as I could.” he said, “but they escaped. so I kept on running to where the men lay. As I approached. cne of them (Cowley) said, ‘Don’t shoot. I'm & copper.’ “I took his word for it and looked t the other fellow (Hollis). He was ng on his face. I turned him over and his hand and an automatic fell out from under his coat. He must have been trying to draw it. Shot Through Head. “This m: was shot in the head. He was lying on an automatic | C. shotgun. It was empty. There was a machine gun lying across the other ! fellow’s shoulder. It was empty, too.” Then Gallagher told of summoning ambulances and doctors and finally | taking the wounded men to the hos- | pital in Barrington in private cars | when he became impatient. He said he gathered up all the guns he found, the three belonging to the agents and one. a machine gun, he found in the car abandoned by the slayers. The first witness was Byron F. Hol- lis, 26, Chicago, brother of the slain agent. He gave briefly his brother's history and said he had last seen him two days before he was killed. Chief Assistant Deputy Coroner John Butler failed to get evidence from two witnesses. One of them, P. W. Sherman, a Chicago salesman, witnessed the shooting. The other was John L. Madala, a Federal agent, who reached the scene soon after the battle. Salesman Refuses to Talk. Sherman, who stopped his car as he neared the battle, abandoned it and ran, said he had given his story to Melvin Purvis, in charge of the Department of Justice bureau here and could not talk further. Madala did little more than identify himself. He declined to say on what “assignment” the slain agents were working at the time, but admitted | they had had “leads” before going | there. The jury brought in a verdict that Hollis was murdered by “two un- known persons, now at liberty," and added: “We further recommend that a diligent search be made by agents of the United States Govern- ment, local, county and State police, and that they be held to the grand Jury for murder.” Dead or Alive? ‘COLUMBUS. Ohio (#).—Wilbur Neal was called upon in court to testify that he is not dead. 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Photo, News of Body Find Delayed As Mystery Tips Were Traced | Police Commissioner Says Nelson Died in Chicago Hotel, From W hich Aides’ Calls The following account of the search for George “Baby Face” Nel- son’s body was written for the As- sociated Press by Ambrose Brod, police commissioner of Niles Cen- ter, who took personal part in the hunt. BY AMBROSE BROD, Commissioner of Niles Center Police (CopyTight. 1934, by the Associated Press) CHICAGO. November 29.—We had been keeping a vigilant eye out for Nelson since we heard of the gun duel yesterday near Barrington, but the first tangible report that the gangster was dead in Niles Center came in a telephone call about 7:55 am. from an undertaker named Sa- dowskl. The undertaker said he had just received a phone call to go to Lin-| coln and Harms road and pick up the body of “Mr. Gillis” That was Nelson’s actual name—Lester Gillis. This call, Sadowski told us, was anonymous. but we set out in search immediately. Stolberg and myself. About 9 o'clock we found Nelson's clothing, wrapped in a laundry bag and a pillowcase, at Railroad avenue, near Howard street. was subsequently discovered. The garments obviously had been ripped and torn from the man. Second Call Reported. So we continued cruising, but with- out luck, and then the undertaker telephoned again. In the interim he said, he had received another call wanting to know if the body had been discovered, and when he replied that There were six in the | party, four Federal agents, Chief A.| This is about | 2 miles from where the body itself | Were Made. it had not, the anonymous caller gave him more explicit directions. So we went back to work. Presently we happened upon this bloody mass in a ditch, covered with a cheap and gaudy blanket—all that was left of Baby Face. There wasn't any name on the blanket. We waited around until a Govern- ment car appeared and the body was loaded into it. Everybody was still tense and vigilant, and when we saw a suspicious appearing car loitering | nearby some of the officers rushed the driver. He was only a beer salesman {and was allowed to go. A lot of in- | quisitive people were beginning to | gather. I don't think Nelson killed those agents. Cowley and Hollis. From the number of bullets in his legs. and from what I have been able to learn, it appears Nelson fell down almost instantly after he climbed out of the ;;r. when the agents answered the e Thinks Aide Was Killer. Tt seems to me the man who was | with Nelson did the killing. I feel certain that Nelson died in a Chicago Hotel. From all that we could learn his companions, after | ariving Nelson about, took him to the | hotel and later when he died brought | him to Niles Center. ‘The reason the finding of the body | was not made public earlier was be- | cause the Federal men believed if the news were withheld the person who notified the undertaker might call again. The Federal men already had been dispatched to the hotel when the second phone call came to the under- taker and they were hoping to trace the calls that gave us the “tip” that :elson could be found, a corpse, near ere. HAMILTON SOUGHT AS NELSON’S AIDE IN FATAL GUN DUEL (Continued From First Page.) shots that killed Cowley and Hollis, but there was at least one who ex- pressed a contrary belief. The opinion that it was Nelson's male companion who Kkilled Cowley and Hollis, came from Police Commis- sioner Ambrose Brod of Niles Center, a witness to the duel. He said the agents’ guns were working faster than Nelson's and that the “Baby Face,” so called because of his cherubic ex- pression, had fallen before the officers dropped mortally wounded. Nelson's demise, like that of Dil- linger, disclosed that he had grown a mustache and attempted to hide his identity by using acid to obliterate his finger prints, but they were easily identified. From the time he was sentenced to the St. Charles, IlL., school for an auto theft at the age of 14, Nelson's career of crime hurtled swiftly through petty offenses, robbery, bank banditry and murder, to end in death in a lonely ditch. < In the brief span of 11 years his catalogue of criminal activities ranged from auto thefts to the Killing of three Federal agents. Born in Chicago in 1908, the son of a Belgian tanner, Nelson, whose real name was Lester Gillis, was twice paroled from the St. Charles institution, and finally discharged in 1926. Two years later, after his mar- riage to Helen Wawzynak, Federal sgents said he turned his attention to bank robbery. He was convicted of robbing the State banks of Hillside and Itasca. For each he received terms of one year to live in Joliet Penitentiary. While being returned to prison, he escaped and apparently fled from Chicago to the Pacific Coast, where he was trigger man for & rum-run- ning gang across the bay from San Francisco. After an interlude in Towa, where several movie theater robberies were chalked against him, Nelson apr ared with the Dillinger gang. After the Little Bohemia shooting, Nelson fled to the Far West, where Federal agents said he was probably hidden by his former rum-running associates. He didn’t appear again in the Midwest until when Cowley and Hollis were killed. The neat fortune his depredations were reported to have netted him was not to be found near his body. A belt that probably had contained money was found ripped from the body and cut open. Another small fortune, the re- it get_ the best material and skilled labor. It pays Get our estimate NOW. w. KOONS ROOFING COMPANY, [} wards offered for Nelson's capture dead or alive, will probably never be paid, authorities indicated. Family of Nelson Takes Death News With Marked Calm Mother Had Expected Re- port; Brother-in-Law Curt in Interview. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Novemiger 29.—The gray-haired mother of “Baby Face” Nelson was not surprised to learn that her son had been shot to death. “It is news,” Mrs. Helen Gillis re- marked simply, “but it is expected news.” Mrs. Juliette Fitzsimmons, the gang man’s sister, had no statement to add to the opinion she previously had ad- vanced: “If they get him, they'll be takin him to the morgue, not a cell.” e No one in the South Side home seemed much perturbed. Robert Fitzsimmons, brother-in-law of the notorious gunman interview with: o o closed the “Well, we won't have anything more to say. I've got to shave.” Twenties Tough Turnout to Be Fateful Days for Enemies of Society. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 29— The “twenties” of the month have been fateful days for criminals, Four of the most notorious gang- sters killed this year by officers have died on the twenty-second, two on the twenty-third and one was found dead on the twenty-eighth day of the month. The list: May 23—Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, killed by officers near Black Lake, La. July 22—John Dillinger slain by detectives as he stepped from a Chi- cago movie house. August 22—Homer Van Meter, Dil- linger lieutenant, slain by police in St. Paul. September 22—Charles Makley, Dil- linger henchman, killed while at- tempting escape from the Columbus, Ohio, Penitentiary. October 22—Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, slain by police near East Liv- erpool, Ohio. November 28—George (Baby Face) Nelson, found dead from bullet wounds received in a gun battle with Federal agents in & Chicago suburh. STAR, WASHI NELSON EMPLOYED WIFE AS A SHIELD Federal Agents Met End by Delaying Fire to Save Woman. BY REX COLLIER. Operating with greatest secrecy under personal orders of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Justice Depart- ment’s Division of Investigation, Fed- eral agents had trailed “Baby Face” Nelson to San Francisco and back to Chicago before they caught up with him. During much of that undercover chase the nervous, boastful Dillinger machine gunner used his wife, Helen, and a 5-year-old son for protective purposes, it was revealed at the De- partment of Justice. His reason for taking his family with him was two- fold. He hoped to throw off his pur- suers by disguising himself as a “family man"—and he wished to use his wife and child as a shield in the 'evem. of a gun battle. ‘The presénce of Mrs. Nelson—her real name ig Mrs. Lester M. Gillis— had the desired effect on the Federal men when they overtook Nelson at Barrington, Ill. They withheld their fire, officials here declared, until they themselves were fired upon. Other Children in Chicago. The son and another child, a four- year-old girl, are believed to be in the vicinity of Chicago. Now that Nelson has gone the way of Dillinger and “Pretty Boy” Floyd, some of the details of the search by the “G” men for the man who mur- dered their comrade, Special Agent Carter Baum, can be disclosed. Gillis, alias Nelson, did not rate as a “big time” gangster until he joined the Dillinger organization last year. Before that he had been a bootlegger and hoodlum in Chicago, associating at times with Tommy Touhy and other racketeers. The Department of Jus- tice was not looking for him in those days. Police had encountered him on nu- merous occasions, however. Chicago authorities first arrested him in 1922, when he was only 15 years old. He was sent to a reform school for steal- ing an automobile. He was released from the reformatory three times on parole and on the first two occasions was returned for violation of his parole. From stealing automobiles and tires Nelson drifted into illicit distilling, burglaries and hold-ups. He learmed how to handle a “Tommy” machine gun with such finesse that the “big shot” gangsters began to take notice of him. Robbed Bank at 21. He was just 21 years old when he robbed the State Bank of Hillside, I, a crime which brought him his first prison sentence—one yvear to life. Six months after going to Joliet prison he was removed to stand trial at Wheaton, Ill. for another State bank robbery. He received another one-year-to-life sentence. He escaped while being returned from court to Jollet, on February 17, 1932, In 1933 Nelson went in for bank robbery in a big way. He was one of two machine gunners who robbed the Brainerd, Minn., Bank of $32,000 in October of that year. It was in the Fall of 1933 that Nelson succeeded in gaining the favor of John Dillinger and his gang. Under the name of Jimmie Williams he joined with Homer Van Meter and Tommy Carroll, lieutenants of Dil- linger, in a trip to the Southwest to seck special arms and ammunition for the gang. In Sen Antonio Tex,, the trio em- ployed an underworld gunsmith to convert a number of Colt automatics into pocket-size machine guns—which Dillinger desired to replace the more cumbersome submachine guns. | members of the Dillinger mob. now are on exhibition at the Justice De- partment’s crime museum. Gang Captured in West. Early in January of this year Dillinger and others of his band also went to the Southwest—and ran into grief. Dillinger, Russell Clark, Charles Makley and Harry Pierpont were cap- tured in Tucson, Ariz. by alert po- lice. Dillinger was flown to Indiana and lodged in the famous Crown Point jail. Nelson rejoined Dillinger imme- diately after the latter's wooden gun flight from the Crown Point jail. Others who gathered around the “Ni 1 Public Enemy” were Van Meter, Carroll and John Hamilton. The day after Dillinger's escape & man believed to have been Nelson murdered Theodore W. Kidder in Min- neapolis, Minn. Two days after this Nelson aided Dillinger and his gunmen in the $50,000 robbery of the Securities National Bank at Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Exactly a week later “Baby Face” again joined with the Dillinger crowd in a $52,000 robbery at the First Na- tional Bank in Mason City, Iowa. The Department of Justice in the meantime had launched a hunt for Dillinger because he had made the mistake of stealing an automobile at Crown Point and driving it across a State line—a Federal offense. The Federal authorities did not officially add Nelson to their list of wanted outlaws until the night of April 22 of this year. Agent Baum Slain, On that night Federal agents raided the Little Bohemia Inn, near Mercer, Wis. In an exchange of gunfire with Dillinger and his gangsters a C. C. C. worker who was leaving the inn was killed. The firing from the gang hide- out ceased, and Agent Baum went down the road to a nearby farm house to investigate suspicious activities there. With Baum were Agent J. C. Newman and Constable Carl Christen- ! berry. As the officers drove up in front of the farm they saw a car, without lights, parked at the side of the road. The constable recognized the car as that of a local resident. Thus re- assured, the officers pulled alongside and & man stepped from the parked car and confronted the officers. ‘The man was “Baby Face” Nelson— although the officers were unaware of his identity at the time. He asked the officers what they wanted and they identified themselves. Leveling an automatic pistol Nelson began firing before the officers could make a move to defend themselves. Newman was it knocked unconscious by a bullet that grazed his forehead. The constable was severely wounded. Baum was killed instantly. ‘The desperado pulled the body of Baum and the unconscious forms of Newman and Christenberry out of the car, climbed in and drove off. Newman recovered his senses in time to fire several shots at the disappear- ing automobile. Became Marked Man. Nelson became a marked man from that moment. Hoover and his agents were eager to get Dillinger, but they were even more eager to find Nelson at any cost, and make him pay for the cold-blooded murder of Baum. Nelson's wife was captured at the ~ Two| of these guns, taken from captured | C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934 Hamilton, No. 1 Placed Next on Oblivion List| Upper, left to right: John Hamilton and Arthur Barker. Lower, left to right: Alvin Karpas and Thomas H. Robinson, jr. By the Associated Press. | “John Hamilton's next—get him.” ‘That order sent Department of Jus- tice men ranging a wide territory to- | day for the last surviving principal of John Dillinger’s mob. Now that Baby Face Nelson is gone | —riddled by two Federal men. who gave their lives in the fight—Hamil- ton's name stands in a quartet of | “public enemies” on which the Federal | agents are concentrating. Though the | only specific Federal charge against | him is obstructing justice, he is| wanted badly. While considering him a contender | for the title “Public Enemy No. 1.” agents say there are three others. They are Arthur (Doc) Barker and Alvin Karpis, named as the abductors of Ed- ward G. Bremer, St. Paul business man, and Thomas H. Robinson. jr. accused of kidnaping Mrs. Alice Speed Btoll, society leader of Louisville, Ky. Tag Means Oblivion. Grieving over the death of Inspec- | tor Samuel P. Cowley and Agent Her- man Hollis, the Department of Jus- tice took pride in the claim that it is rapidly converting the public enemy tag into a passport to oblivion. It was obviously pleased. too. over the surrender of “Dutch” Schultz, long considered a leader in the New York beer racket. For 22 months the Treasury Department sought Schultz. He surrendered yesterday, a few days | | and Hollis, he called reporters back Public Enemy, after the case was turned over to the Department of Justice. Agents con- sidered that & tribute to their rapidly growing reputation for “getting their man.” A movement to provide compensa- tion for the families of agents killed in the line of duty is expected to gain force in the next Congress. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, called for such action yesterday, saying “it is a frightful thing” to have gangsters zens and shooting down Cummings Shows Emotion. ‘The announcement of Nelson's end was made yesterday in an atmosphere of intense, if subdued. emotion. Only a short time after Attorney General Cummings said he was “grieved be- yond words” at the deaths of Cowley to tell them Nelson's body was found “Make it clear that our men shot him,” he said J. Edgar Hoover. head of the Di- vision of Investigation. also greeted the news with mixed emotions. “We got the guy,” he said. “but he killed two of our men first. It was two lives for one.” Nelson's death made the score in the grim contest between Dillinger gangsters and law officers nine to nine. Nine officers, have fallen be- fore Dillinger gang guns. The law marked up its score with a combina- tion of the electric chair and bullets. Little Bohemia Inn, along with two other Dillinger gang women, but Nel- | son, becoming separated from the| other fugitives, fled to the Pacific| Coast. His wife, convicted of harbor- | ing Dillinger, was placed on proba- tion and she promptly joined her hus- band, taking her son along | In California Nelson found refuge with a bootlegger friend operating in the San Francisco area. He felt so secure after several weeks that he ventured back East. | Hoover's men have received infor- mation that late in May and early in June of this vear Nelson rejoined | Dillinger and Van Meter in Chicago | while the latter pair were having | plastic operations performed on their | faces. Nelson did not have his own | features altered, however. | During this short sojourn Nelson is | reported to have related laughingly | to Dillinger details of his “exploit” | in killing Agent Baum | Nelson was thoroughly frightened | when Dillinger was shot and kmedi in Chicago a month later by a Fed-| eral squad led by Inspector SHmuel; P. Cowley. He fled back to San| Francisco, where the Federal forces | again picked up his trail. Intensive| investigation proceeded in the San Francisco area during July and August A few weeks later it was established | that Nelson and his wife had left| California and were heading East. Vigilance was renewed in the States | between California and Iilinois and on several occasions “hot” leads were run down—in vain. Special atention was paid to the Southern Wisconsin lake section be- cause of belief that Nelson would find it convenient to hide there. This section 1s within 50 miles of Chicago, Nelson’s bailiwick. "On Tuesday of this week Federal agents conducting a search in the vicinity of Lake Como and Lake Geneva came into possession of definite information that Nelson had been in that neighborhood re- cently. The license numbers of Nel- son's car were obtained. Inspector Cowley, who was in com- mand of the manhunt. was proceed- ing to Lake Geneva with Agent Her- man E. Holis when, purely by chance, he spotted an automobile bearing the tag numbers of Nelson’s car. Two men and a woman were in the car. There was a brief race, a screech of brakes and tires, an exchange of machine gun fire, and at a final price of three courageous agents, the Gov- ernment had erased another “kill- crazy” public enemy. BILL TO AID. FAMILIES OF SLAIN U. S. AGENTS By the Associated Press. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, who indorsed the late Samuel P. Cowley for the position of Depart- ment of Justice agent, plans to in- troduce a bill to aid the families of such agents killed in the line of duty. Referring to the fatal wounding near Barrington, Iil, of Cowley and Hermen E. Hollis, another Justice Department agent, King said: “I will prepare a measure com- mensurate with the importance and the gravity of the situation. I think it is a frightful thing to have tnese gangsters preying upon mothers, stealing their children and shooting down such fine men as these De- partment of Justice agents.” For Athlete’s Foot Ringworm, Eczema Dandruft USE VON-EMA Get a bottle of this proved. ich Free Consultation, Call R. VON ROSEN, Dermatologist 320 Homer Bldg. Distriet 7743. Nelson Career Seventh Son of Tanner Be- gan Life of Crime at Age of 15 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 29.—Dates of | moment from the criminal calendar of George “Baby Face’ Nelson: December 6, 1908—Born. the sev-| enth son of a Belgian tanner, at 944 California street, Chicago. 1923—Sent to the Illinois State| School for Boys for motor car theft. | Paroled twice, but twice returned for ! parole violations. | July 11, 1926—Discharged from | tate school. 1928—Married Helen Wawznak, de- partment store sales girl. February 20. 1931—Indicted for rob- bery of Hillside (Ill.) State Bank; later sentenced to one year to life in Joliet Penitentiary. February 17, 1932—Removed from Joliet to Wheaton, IIl, to stand trial for robbery. Itasca State Bank. He received another sentence of one year | to life. | February 18. 1932—Escaped while returning to Joliet. cowing guard with pistol as he was removed from train to a taxicab. Finding Chicago too| “hot,” he reputedly fled to Califor-| nia and joined a liquor-running gang. | March. 1933—Returned to Chicago to join the John Dillinger mob. April 23, 1934—Slew W. Carter Baum, Department of Justice agent, to escape from Dillinger hide-out near Rhinelander, Wis. November 27—Wounded fatally in a gun fight with Samuel P. Cowley and Herman E. Hollis, Federal agents, | who also were killed. November 28—His body found in roadside ditch near Niles Center, Il DILLINGER HARBORERS’ ROUND-UP UNDER WAY Ten Who Gave Food and Shelter to Desperado in West Soon to Be Arrested. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 29.— With George “Baby Face” Nelson dead, Department of Justice agents here turned their attention today to a round-up of persons accused of aiding the former John Dillinger gunman during his recent secret so- journ in California and Nevada. ‘Ten persons will be arrested shortly in Northern California and Nevada on charges of harboring the public enemy, said E. P. Guinane, division chief of the Department of Justice. Guinane said his chief concern is the capture of John Chase, 32, from whom he hoped to obtain valuable information. At least 15 agents were trailing Nelson during his dashes, Guinane disclosed, adding that persons of ap- parently legitimate occupation gave the gangster food and shelter. “We will have the last laugh on them now,” he said. S Turn your old trinkets, jewelry and watches into MONEY at A.Xahn Jne. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 42 YEARS at 935 F STREET eI S, f MOTHER RELATES STORY OF HOLLIS Says Son Made Good at Whatever Task He As- signed Energies. The mother of Herman E. Hollis, Federal agent who was fatally shot in the gun battle which ended the criminal career of “Baby Face” Nelson, here tells how and why her son embarked on his hazardous work for the Government. BY NORA E. HOLLIS. DES MOINES, Iowa, November 29. —When my son Herman set out to do anything it was done, and done perfectly—that is why I hope and be- lieve that in his last service to his | country he completely did his duty by firing the shots that were fatal for the lawbreaker. ‘Whether it was music, law or danc- ing Herman excelled. He had the will to do things and do them right. And | he was smart and clever enough to carry out that will. ‘Why I remember when he was born. I was a young mother—only 19, and Herman was my first born. The doctor Tubbed his hand over the boy's head | and said “There's a head with knowl- edge in it.” When he was 1 vear old I got a | bank for him. I taught him to save his pennies and nickels. We opened a bank account and it's still open here. Saves Son's Baby Book. I still have the little linen book from which he learned his first letters. When he was only a year old he would point to them and spell out the trade name on one of my household appli- ances. I used to put him in a carriage and when we go through downtown stores the clerks would rave about him; pec- ple would stop and look at him to Washington, D. C. They certified his civil service grades and they were nearly perfect. The postmaster told him there'd be no trouble with those grades. Why, when they were checking on accuracy in sorting mail at the post office, he had a nearly perfect record. Then he was graduated and came home to visit me. He had applied for the Department of Justice job. He was only here a day and a nigh* when the telegram came saying he'd been appointed with highest grades. Dangers Unsuspected. That was in 1927. I didn't really know he had such a dangerous job. ‘When we visited him in Cincinnati he was in a fine office, and apparently didn't have to go out like on this last trip. But his brother, Byron, visited him in Detroit and he told Byron a little bit about how hard and dangerous the work was. Byron told me. And one time when he was home I hap- pened to see three revolvers in his grip when his baby got near it. I only asked him to be sure to keep the guns out of the baby’s reach. I didn's urge him to leave the work, | because I knew how badly he wanted to enter law practice. The higher wages in the more dangerous work probably was an inducement—he wanted to save and have money to start up in business He had even bought a lot in a good residence section and was planning to build. He bought three cars, wnile he was going to school and working. He always could get a job, and do the work well. I remember the grocer he | worked for told me he was paying Herman more than the other zlerks, because he could always depend on him. Herman would have been married seven years Thursday—on Thanks- giving—and they were so happy and got along so well. (Copyright Ne KIDDER IS AVENGED BY NELSON’S DEATH Minneapolis Salesman’s Slaying by Gang Never Fully Ex- plained by Probe. Then when he entered school, he | didn't stay but half a day in the kindergarten. The sister said he was too advanced for that, and he was put in first grade. From the day he started to school he was fond of books. He and I would sit out in the yard after school and he'd tell me all he'd learned that day—sometimes we'd be | out there on the lawn for half an hour He was a Boy Scout and he'd come home from the camp every year with | all the medals and letters he won for | the best bed making and other things they do there. And I still have all the medals. One time, too, when I had to g0 to & special church meeting. I came | home and he had a full meal all| prepared and on the table. Was Happy by Nature. Herman was such a happy boy— and quick, t00. Once was all you had to tell him a thing or show him.| When he was going to school and | working eight hours a day at the post office he didn't have any time | for whoopee. He was a graceful | dancer and enjoyed it and went to his fraternity dances, but didn't go cruising around with a bunch of wild boys. He was more serious. And the money he carned he saved tor his own | educa‘ion. I can't remember when he first said he wanted to be a lawyer. It seems like he always wanted to be He selected his own law school, Georgetown, and arranged for trans- fer from the Des Moines Post Office ' Only ONE PRICE . . By the Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS, November 29.— Guns of the Department of Justice ! men have avenged relatives of Theo- dore W. Kidder in bringing George (Baby Face) Nelson to the end of life's trail. Slightly more than eight months spanned the slayings of Kidder in suburban St. Louis Park last March 4 and the desperado in suburban Chi- cago Tuesday. Hennepin County authorities blamed | Nelson for Kidder's nocturn ing while his wife and mother-in-law sat in the Kidder automobile. Kidder was a paint salesman who sold ammu- nition as a sideline. Kidder, prior to the slaving, had an argument with another motorist and afterwards was trailed 3 miles by occu- pants of the car. Three blocks from home he stopped, apparently to ascer- tain what the four or five men in the other car wanted. From the other automobile three shots blazed forth and Kidder fell dead. Authorities were unable to ascribe & motive for the slaying at the time, but later theorized he had been sell- | ing ammunition to Nelson and his pals | and presumably had failed to make | delivery on one sale and had been killed. . 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