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Sheriffs, deputies, policemen, constables, state troopers, Federal agents, some 10,000 strong, were last week led a merry chase by Desperado John Dillinger and Dillinger's ghost.
¶ In St. Paul police cars roared through the streets hunting for a bandit car reported seen with bullet holes in its windshield and rear windows. ¶In Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Federal agents swooped down on a hospital to seize Dillinger's pal, George ("Baby Face'') Nelson whose presence was reported by an amateur sleuth. They found the patient to be a traveling salesman for a correspondence school, taken ill...
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