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On March 16, Herbert Youngblood, who escaped from Crown Point alongside Dillinger, was shot dead by police in Port Huron, Michigan. Deputy Sheriff Charles Cavanaugh was mortally wounded in the gunfight and later died.
Jul 22, 2024 · Herbert Youngblood, in jail awaiting trial for murder, joined Dillinger in his escape. Two weeks after the breakout, he was killed in a shootout with police. Some accounts say it was an uninvolved bystander who shot and killed him.
Oct 26, 2024 · Dillinger and his gang next robbed banks in Indiana and Wisconsin and fled south to Florida and then to Tucson, Arizona, where they were discovered and arrested by local police. Dillinger was extradited to Indiana and lodged in the Crown Point jail, which was considered escape-proof.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 9, 2010 · On March 3, while still awaiting trial, he executed his most celebrated escape. That morning, he brandished a gun and methodically began locking up the prison officials.
- Missy Sullivan
Dillinger and Herbert Youngblood escape from prison by using a "wooden gun," fleeing in the Sheriff Lillian Holley's car with two hostages. March 6, 1934 Sioux Falls, South...
- American Experience
Nov 9, 2009 · With the aid of two female accomplices, Pearl Elliott and Mary Kinder, Dillinger put the escape plan in motion. He arranged for several guns to be packed in a box of thread, and smuggled into...
While Youngblood held the group at gunpoint, Dillinger sought out an automobile for the escape. Asking garage mechanic Edward Saager which car was the fastest, he was told it was the sheriffs automobile.
