Old "Sheriffs House" Lake County Jail PT # 1 ~ The Historic1882 Remains ~ Crown Point, Indiana

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Built in 1882, the house and jail were the county's first permanent buildings for this purpose. By 1910, the jail facility was inadequate and the first of a series of additions was built. A new jail was built in 1974 and in 1989, the old sheriff's house and jail was placed in the National Register of Historic Places.
John Dillinger in 1934. Dillinger had been arrested in Arizona for an Illinois bank robbery that resulted in the death of one man. He was extradited to Indiana and locked up at the Crown Point jail.
John Dillinger, who was born in Indianapolis, had a difficult childhood. When he was three years old, his mother died, and he later had a strained relationship with his stepmother. Often in trouble, he eventually dropped out of school. The family subsequently settled on a farm in nearby Mooresville, but the relocation had little effect on Dillinger’s behavior. In 1923 he joined the navy and served on the USS Utah before deserting after only a few months. Dillinger then returned to Indiana.. While incarcerated, he learned the craft of bank robbery from fellow inmates. Upon parole on May 10, 1933, he turned his knowledge to profit, robbing (with one to four confederates) five Indiana and Ohio banks in four months and gaining his first notoriety as a daring, sharply dressed gunman.
In September 1933 Dillinger was captured and jailed in Ohio. However, the following month he was rescued by five former convict pals whose own escape from Indiana State Prison he had earlier financed and plotted; a sheriff was killed during the incident. 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. However, on March 3, 1934, he executed his most-celebrated breakout. With a razor and a piece of wood, he carved a fake pistol, blackened it with shoe polish, and used it to force his way past a dozen guards to freedom, singing as he left, “I’m heading for the last roundup.” Dillinger then drove the sheriff’s car to Chicago. By taking a stolen vehicle across state lines, he committed a federal offense, and the FBI launched its own manhunt. There followed more bank robberies with new confederates, notably Baby Face Nelson. Over the course of Dillinger’s yearlong crime spree, several people were killed by his gang, and he barely escaped FBI entrapments and shootouts in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He eventually made his way to Chicago, where he reportedly had plastic surgery to alter his appearance. His end came through a trap set up by the FBI, Indiana police, and Anna Sage (alias of Ana Cumpanas), a brothel madam who knew Dillinger’s girlfriend. Sage informed law officers that she and the couple would be seeing a movie on the night of July 22, 1934. The trio ultimately went to the Biograph Theater. Although Sage was later described as “the woman in red,” she was actually wearing an orange skirt to make herself easily visible. After a showing of the crime drama Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Dillinger emerged to find FBI agents waiting for him. He attempted to escape but was shot to death in the alley.
John Dillinger had been arrested in Arizona for an Illinois bank robbery that resulted in the death of one man. He was extradited to Indiana and locked up at the Crown Point Jail. The jail was thought to be iron-clad and inescapable; nobody had managed to get out before.
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