![]() Dillinger had been arrested at a girlfriend’s house only a few days before, and was languishing in jail in Lima, Ohio. 38 pistols hidden in a crate of thread bound for the jail’s shirt making factory, allowing 10 convicts-including experienced stickup men “Handsome” Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley and John Hamilton-to get the drop on their guards and escape. That September, he began plotting to break his would-be accomplices out of the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. ![]() ![]() Dillinger helped bust his fellow gang members of out of jail.ĭillinger committed a string of high-profile heists during the summer of 1933, but he was desperate to reunite with some of his old prison buddies to form an ace bank-robbing gang.
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