As officers prepared the FBI's Public Enemy Number One for a secret flight out of Tucson, John Dillinger screamed, 'You're shanghaiing me!'
By Jerry Wilkerson For the Arizona Daily Star On the afternoon of January 29, 1934, Pima County Sheriff John Belton and Under-Sheriff C. S. Farrar entered gangster John Dillinger's jail cell to manacle the outlaw in preparation for extradition. They were preparing to transport him to the Tucson airport for a secret flight out of town.
People are also reading… Ultimately cuffed and shackled, Dillinger was unceremoniously dragged down the cellblock hallway and out a jail door to a waiting car headed to the then-modest Tucson Municipal Airport for a clandestine flight to Douglas. He had been in Tucson for 10 days, and law enforcement was anxious to get him out of town. Heavily armed guards secured the fugitive on a chartered airplane around 5 p.m. as the winter sun set against the Catalina Mountains.
On Saturday, March 3, 1934, at around 9:15 a.m., Dillinger overpowered guards and broke out of the jail using a hand-carved wooden gun he made from a washboard blackened with shoe polish. He stole Sheriff Lillian Holley's V-8 Ford, hightailing it north and west out of town to Chicago. Soon after, Dillinger and his gang pulled four bank jobs across the Midwest.
She set up Dillinger in Chicago with the FBI on July 22, 1934, to help herself with immigration problems. The government considered her"an alien of low morals." Anna, the celebrated Lady in Red, was wearing an orange skirt that looked red under the glare of the Biograph movie marquee lights that sweltering 100-degree night.
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