On October 23, 1933, the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger and some of his gang (Harry Pierpont, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Walter Dietrich, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, and George "Baby Face" Nelson) drove to the Central National Bank on the southwest corner of the Greencastle Town Square and made the biggest "haul" of their criminal careers - - $74,728.00 in cash, and equities. Already under indictment for the death of Sheriff Jess Saber of Michigan City, In., the gang managed the Greencastle holdup without killing anyone, driving out of town without obstruction. Dillinger was finally gunned down by FBI agents in Chicago at the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, ending an eleven year career of crime. Others of the gangster mob were killed in later gun battles with police. Because the Great Depression forced many bank foreclosures on private properties, the Dillinger gang was beheld by foreclosure victims as a kind of folk-hero.
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