![]() ![]() Dillinger and members of the Barker gang helped bury his body. Rather, he was mortally wounded in a gunfight the next morning in Hastings, Minnesota, and died a few days later. It Although Red Hamilton did die shortly after Little Bohemia, he did not die on the night of the shootout. Homer Van Meter died in a police ambush in St. However, much like the movie Nelson, the real Nelson failed to fall right away despite being being shot all over his body, probably as a result of adrenaline. In reality, Nelson was killed on November 27th, 1934, four months after Dillinger died, in a running shootout with Agents Herman Hollis and Samuel Cowley, both of whom were killed by Nelson's Thompson sub-machine-gun. Although Nelson's "give it to you high and low" line appears to be accurate, Nelson was not gunned down by Purvis. None of the Dillinger gang was killed during the shootout at Little Bohemia Lodge. (c) An account from another FBI agent present at Floyd's death disputed the above claim, saying that the East Liverpool police only arrived after Floyd had been wounded. This is the most controversial account since it suggests that Floyd was executed without the benefit of judge or jury. Purvis then ordered Smith away from Floyd and briefly questioned him, then ordered agent Herman Hollis (later killed by Baby Face Nelson in November) to kill Floyd, and Hollis shot Floyd with a sub-machine-gun at point blank range. (b) In 1979, retired East Liverpool police captain Chester Smith claimed he had shot and wounded Floyd once, then shot him two more times and disarmed him. 45-caliber pistol while climbing out of a car and said "I'm done for. (a) The FBI account on the death says that Floyd was gunned down when he drew a. Exactly what happened is unclear, since there are three different official accounts. Also, he was shot in an open field by a farmhouse in Clarkson, Ohio, not in an apple orchard, and Melvin Purvis was one of only several FBI agents present. The scene where John Dillinger ( Johnny Depp) meets FBI agent Melvin Purvis ( Christian Bale) in prison and says, "Well, if it isn't the man who got Pretty Boy Floyd!" In real life, Pretty Boy Floyd died on October 22nd, 1934, three months after Dillinger died. ![]() Like most true stories translated to the screen, the facts as far as characterization, times, dates, names, and places may either be "adjusted" or "dramatized" to make the film more entertaining. Makley was shot and killed by the guards while Pierpont was wounded, and executed a few weeks later in the electric chair. ![]() They assaulted a guard and released Russell Clark from his cell, but he retreated back to his cell before they had gone far. ![]() Two months after Dillinger's death, on September 22nd, 1934, Makley and Pierpont attempted to break out of jail by replicating Dillinger's escape from Crown Point, by carving prop guns from bars of soap and painting them black with shoe polish. In the movie, Dillinger speaks of breaking Pierpont and Makley out of prison after the Sioux Falls bank heist with the supposed $800,000. This actually did happen in real life: Pierpont, Makley, and Russell Clark (who does not appear in the film) were extradited to Ohio to stand trial for the murder of Lima sheriff Jess Sarber, whom Pierpont had shot on October 12th, 1933 when they were breaking Dillinger out of the Lima jail. Harry "Pete" Pierpont and Charles Makley are both arrested and were "shanghaied to Ohio" in the film. ![]()
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