Morgan instinctively gave the "Masonic Grand Hailing Sign of Distress," hoping someone would recognize the gesture and come to the rescue. Porch lights started snapping on as concerned neighbors fumbled for shoes and shirts in order to dash out side to see what was going on. Had either Aulls or Hodges been better shots, John Herbert Dillinger would have been a forgotten footnote in history. A no-nonsense time in law enforcement history, the two officers thought nothing of pulling their weapons and firing a total of seven shots at a fleeing young man who had done nothing worse than having a handgun. slithered away, leaving a stunned Aulls holding an empty coat.
When Pinkston died by his own hand in 1996, he left behind an extraordinary, eighteen-hundred-page gold mine of edited research that covered every aspect of John Dillinger's life. That's precisely what Joe Pinkston and Tom Smusyn didand it took them nearly a half century. ≼aptain Matt Leach, Indiana State Police, 1933 There are enough angles on tribe and its history to write a great big book. When all of the known facts about Dillinger are dragged into publicity, it will be found that no desperado in America can approach this bad man's record.
John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal
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