Posted on 10/17/2020 7:48:36 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
At 12:09 a.m. this date in 1934, Harry Pierpont — a partner of notorious gangster John Dillinger — was electrocuted at the Columbus, Ohio penitentiary. This Indiana-born criminal helped Dillinger transition from local malcontent to FBI’s Most Wanted* in prison in Michigan City, Indiana. Pierpont was a professional armed robber and the leader of a gang that knocked over several Indiana banks in the mid-1920s before his capture.
That was right about the time that fellow Hoosier Dillinger was catching an absurdly harsh 10-to-20-year sentence for robbing a local grocer in Mooresville — a sentence Dillinger helped bring on himself when he took his father’s advice to plead guilty and take responsibility and blah blah blah.
The court threw the book at him.
“I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here,” 21-year-old Dillinger is supposed to have said. He’d prove infamously true to his word … with the help of Harry Pierpont.
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Light ‘im up.
Back when we showed little mercy for killers and thieves. Imagine if this was still true today instead of BLM and the ACLU bleating about how unjust everything is.
So very interesting sociology that even today, 80+ years after their MURDERS and lesser offenses, we remember these criminals; Dillinger, Bonny&Clyde, Capone, Kelly and others. However, ask about the lawmen and there is J Edgar Hoover and Elliot Ness. Curious!
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