we learned that in April of 1934, Warner Brothers began showing a newsreel about Dillinger's criminal life and the ongoing hunt for him in hopes of sparking some tips. After several months ,the couple attempted to marry, but timing was against them. What a joke. Paperback. Frechette began a. She passed away in Shawano in 1969. She was a member of the Menominee Tribe and had a mixed French and Menominee heritage. There were dozens of other people I interviewed in covering that story, including Russell Clark, the last of the Dillinger gang released from prison (like Audett, dying of cancer). Kelly was captured by Memphis, Tennessee police detective sergeant William Raney, who slipped into Kelly's bedroom on the night of September 26, 1933, put an automatic to the kidnapper's head and awoke him with a nudge of that cold instrument. while her boyfriend and fugitive, John Dillinger, watched helplessly nearby on April 9, 1934. When the newly-elected FDR read about the Greencastle story, he called Hoover and said: "This man Dillinger is becoming a national hero, a Robin Hood. ", That same year, while at a dance hall, Billie Frechette met bank robber John Dillinger. [citation needed] Their marriage ceremonies were conducted at the Cook County Jail by Chaplain E. N. Ware. -PBS. Film wrong! Dillinger not killed by FBI! Fact: Hoover coverup! -FBI.gov, Yes. Her first husband, a handsome oddball named Welton, was sentenced to prison in 1933 for committing a mail robbery. The Unloved, Part 113: The Sheltering Sky, Fatal Attraction Works As Entertainment, Fails as Social Commentary, Prime Videos Citadel Traps Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden in Played-Out Spy Game, New York Philharmonic and Steven Spielberg Celebrate the Music of John Williams. He already knew about my story on Dillinger and when I asked him where Dillinger might be living, he said, "You seem to know everything else, how come you don't know that?". He vowed to kill the agent in charge of her interrogation after she testified that she had been beaten and deprived of food for two days. Soon after closing the door on the agents, Homer Van Meter came up the stairway and started shooting at the men. Together they went dancing, to the movies, and to the amusement park. ONLY Purvis and Zarkovich knew what Anna Sage looked like-Zarkovich had taken pains to make sure that Purvis met with Anna Sage only once and alone in Lincoln Park-and she was the one through which the FBI would make their identification of Public Enemy Number One, since they had never even seen the man she and Polly would be bringing with them to that movie! Purvis stood outside the theater with a cigar in his mouth and, when he saw Sage, Hamilton and their "man" leave the theater at about 10:20 p.m., he lit that cigar, which was his prearranged signal to Zarkovich that the trio were approaching him. Frechette was born in September 1907, on the Menominee Reservation. When he went down, he said somethin'. Public Enemies Movie vs. Real John Dillinger, Melvin Purvis, Billie At the age of 25, she tied the knot with Welton Walter Spark on August 2, 1932. his tail. Charles Winstead, Clarence Hurt and Herman Hollis were all recognized by J. Edgar Hoover for their actions but none were credited with his death. Finally, watch a 1945 John Dillinger movie that offers a different perspective than the 2009 Johnny Depp Public Enemies movie. Here, Johnny Depp portrays the infamous He totally controlled the public mouth and words of the FBI. I put my ear next to his mouth, and what I think he said was this. Mary Evelyn ("Billie") Frechette was born in Neopit, Wisconsin, on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Public Enemies (2009) - Marion Cotillard as Billie Frechette - IMDb Frechette was 26, Dillinger was 30. Yes. She called two day later (much of this was recorded by Purvis' secretary, who I talked with years later) to tell Purvis that she, Polly, and "her man" would be going that night, July 22, 1934, to either the Marlboro or Biograph Theaters-the "man" had not made up his mind about which film to see. Sign up now to get the Washington Examiners breaking news and timely commentary delivered right to your inbox. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades. "Why does Audrey Dillinger frequently go out there--she has no relatives living in California. Evelyn Frechette - Wikipedia Many years later, I interviewed Evelyn "Billie" Frechette (only one to ever have an interview with her) and she reaffirmed my suspicions in the case, and the fact that Audrey Dillinger was not Dillinger's sister, but his mother, and that is why Audrey supplied a phony identification of the dead man so that she could protect her son. if ( 'querySelector' in document && 'addEventListener' in window ) { I came here because he asked me to. Dillinger's mother died when he was three and he was seeking maternal affection and everything that a man gets from a woman, and his only mode of courtship was caring; was . Anna Sage and Polly Hamilton only knew him as "James Lawrence," who said he worked as clerk at the Commodities Exchange on LaSalle Street (no record of him there). Evelyn Frechette also used the name Evelyn Watson. Although her establishments suffered frequent police raids, she received two pardons from Indiana Governor Harry Leslie in 1932. Evelyn Frechette ~ Early Years - Page 2 Depp did not name the source behind these details. about the 1930s gangster who robbed banks Your email address will not be published. When I interviewed Zarkovich, he became suspicious of my questions, then outright challenged me--he stood up, about six feet five, unbuttoning his pistol holster and holding his hand on the butt of the gun--saying: "Are you telling me something's wrong here? Aside from being his lover and companion, Frechette often cooked, cleaned, and ran Dillinger's errands. Ana Cumpanas, who used the alias Anna Sage, came forward after meeting Dillinger through her friend Polly Hamilton. Dillinger introduced himself as Jimmy Lawrence, a clerk at the Board of Trade. "John was good to me," she later told reporters. Some music for this commentary camePodington Bear. grow up on opposite sides of the law. interrogation, she had been slapped and deprived of food and sleep for two days. "All right," Zarkovich told Purvis, "I will go to the Marlboro with some of your agents and wait there. shoulder. He treated me like a lady.". Enemies movie trailer for the Michael Mann K-pop star Moon Bin, member of boy band Astro, dies age 25 | CNN People & Events: Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, 1907-1969. It was during this time that she met and married Welton Sparks. So John buried himself, you see. Dillinger paid Louis Piquett, his own lawyer, to take on Frechette's case, and try to free her through legal means. Part 3 of 3, this installment of the Frechette spent the early days of her life at the Menominee Reservation where she also attended the local school until she was 13 years old. resting affectionately on Dillinger's While the other girlfriends drank hard liquor, Dillinger refused to give Frechette any,. A few days after the body of the man shot at the Biograph Theater was buried at a cemetery in Indianapolis in the Dillinger plot, Dillinger's father, John Wilson Dillinger appeared at the cemetery with several trucks, including a concrete truck and many workmen, telling the curator that he was worried that the body of his famous son might be stolen by ghouls or souvenir hunters. Frechette eventually had two subsequent marriages. Then the lights in the lodge went out and the agents started firing into the lodge, shooting out the windows on the first and second floors. I got out. Public Enemies Ending Explained: What Does Dillinger Say in the End? The lodge was not officially open, except for its bar which was patronized by local residents and WPA and CCC laborers working in the area. Pat Reilly and Pat Cherrington saw the shooting start when returning from St. Paul and reversed their car back to the main road to escape. Audett gave me a picture of both of them taken about 1948, which I employed in one of my books.