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October 24, 2015

The man who got Dillinger -- and Pretty Boy Floyd -- and Baby Face Nelson

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He was maybe 5-foot-4, and maybe 127 pounds.
He spoke little, but when he did, it was with a mellifluous Southern drawl, befitting a graduate of the Citadel and the University of South Carolina's law school, Melvin Horace Purvis II would within four months in 1934 end the violent criminal careers of John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson --- the original Public Enemies No. 1. Don Surber:

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 24, 2015 11:45 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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For breakfast on the morning of his last day, Dillinger had a plate of 12 dippy eggs, he only ate 11, and 2 pieces of white bread toast, black coffee with sugar.

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