Chapter Four
1 That sum would be worth $561,000 in modern dollars.
2 Ana was deported anyway. Though she received a $5,000 reward for her part in Dillinger’s demise, J. Edgar Hoover ignored the deal she made with Purvis and supervised her return to Romania. Some believe the Dillinger killing was staged, using an innocent stranger instead of the bank robber, and that Ana’s deportation was an attempt to keep her silent about her role in the cover-up. In June 2019, descendants of Dillinger filed a request to exhume his body to ascertain the truth about the corpse’s identity. An Indiana judge refused to sign the permit. The authors of this book do not believe the conspiracy theory.
3 Roughly $5.7 million in modern currency.
4 In September 1979, Captain Chester Smith of the East Liverpool Police Department came forth with a different version of the events surrounding the death of Pretty Boy Floyd. Smith, who was present at the time of Floyd’s arrest, claimed in Time magazine that Purvis ordered fellow agent Herman Hollis to fire a machine-gun burst into Floyd, who had already been captured and disarmed. The FBI disavows this claim.
5 $5,600,000 in modern currency.
6 The Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, was originally designed by John Browning in 1917 for use by American troops in World War I. The weapon would go on to see widespread use in World War II and the Korean War.
7 Helen Gillis and Mary Gillis would later be buried alongside Baby Face.
8 $3,826,776 in modern money.
9 Arthur “Doc” Barker spent four years in Alcatraz but tried to escape and was shot dead by guards.