Despite authorities claiming the jail was escape-proof, Dillinger managed to break out using a whittled wooden gun to intimidate guards. He took machine guns, locked up guards and trustees and ...

22, 1933. Dillinger's gun became a bit of a trophy and was engraved with the words "Taken from the Fugitive John Dillinger upon arrest by Dayton Police." But the story of Dillinger in Dayton ...

Before Dillinger could stand trial in March, he would break out of the jail with a wooden gun. On March 8, 1931, 1,500 convicts at Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois, rioted, setting ...