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Captain Matt Leach, who headed the effort of the Indiana State Police to bring the marauding gang to justice, actually identified Pierpont as “the brains” of the Dillinger gang.
Leach thought that by crediting Dillinger with leadership, a power struggle would follow, ultimately destroying the gang. Leach explained his plan to Indianapolis reporters, who agreed to...
Harry "Pete" Pierpont (October 13, 1902 – October 17, 1934) was a Prohibition era gangster, convicted murderer and bank robber. He was a friend and mentor to John Dillinger.
Harry Pierpont and a fellow gang member, Charles Makley, caught capital sentences. It’s more than likely that they were anticipating another rescue from their famous confederate, but Dillinger’s end in Chicago sealed ...
It explores Leach’s reactions to the events at Crown Point, the scene of the alleged Wooden Gun escape, and looks at Leach’s take on Dillinger’s shooting death at the Biograph Theater.
Harry Pierpont, in leg Irons and handcuffs, on trial at Lima, Ohic, for the slaying of Sheriff Jess Sarber during the delivery of John Dillinger, noted desperado, from the Lima jail last fall.
Last week a jury at Lima, Ohio condemned Harry Pierpont to the electric chair for shooting the town sheriff in freeing Desperado John Dillinger from Lima’s jail last October.
A little over a month later, after he had stolen enough money for bribes to smuggle weapons into the prison for his buddies, John Dillinger was captured in Dayton, Ohio and transferred to the Allen County Jail in Lima...
Heading out west to lay low, Pierpont, Dillinger, Makley, and Clark ended up in Tucson, Arizona. Flush with cash and careless, the gang made several minor mistakes which led to their being recognized and captured, one...
Prior to authorities carrying out his capital punishment Pierpont and his accomplice, Charles Makley, on September 22, 1934, had attempted to escape from the prison by making fake guns from bars of soap and dying them black.
