(CRIME) Wanted poster for John Dillinger

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(CRIME.) Wanted poster for John Dillinger. 8 x 8 inches; light browning, fingerprint smudge, penciled "Dead" with "x" mark on recto; postmarked in New York and addressed to the warden of Westchester County Jail on verso. Washington, DC, 12 March 1934

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Bank robber John Dillinger was probably the best-known gangster of his era. This poster is dated nine days after his escape from an Indiana jail using a fake gun carved from potato. He was killed three months later by federal agents in Chicago.