After a few years, she moved to be near her sister in Chicago when she was 18. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades. She made purchases for him, such as clothing and cars, but for the most part, she performed the role of a housewife. Although Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) tried to keep Anna Sage from being deported, it was out of his jurisdiction and the Immigration and Naturalization Service continued with the deportation proceedings. Polly Hamilton was 26 years old when she met John Dillinger at a Chicago nightclub in early June 1934. Customers would line up to watch him knock over the targets." It was not out of Melvin Purvis' grandiosity, but his expediency to appease J. Edgar Hoover's grandiosity, that Purvis, the FBI agent in charge that night in Chicago, allowed the wrong man to be killed. In one letter Frechette sent Dillinger through O'Leary, she begged him not to try to rescue her, for fear he would be killed. Required fields are marked *. Facing Fear depicts the true story of Evelyn (Billie) Frechette, the beloved companion of John Dillinger. He cheated and lied to build that FBI reputation, such as creating out of whole cloth the image and actual words of the "G-Man"; for instance, he issued a statement and reiterated that statement later on in an article for the American Legion magazine that FBI agents captured George "Machine Gun" Kelly in a rooming house and when they burst through the door of his room, Kelly, according to Hoover, stood quaking in his underwear, pleading: "Don't shoot, G-Men, don't shoot!" Hamilton described Dillinger as an Indiana farm boy who liked a home-cooked meal. googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || []; Anna Sage and Polly Hamilton were withJohn Dillingerthe night he was killed. Frechette served two years in federal prison, and was released in 1936. . Billie Frechettewas an American theater actress and singer who was put behind bars for the crime of hiding her criminal lover inside her apartment. I put my ear next to his mouth, and what I think he said was this. The gunfire prompted Dillinger's gang to start shooting from a second-floor window. before being shot dead outside of the If that was the case, however, it was not my obligation to inform anyone about it, for, according to the FBI, John Herbert Dillinger had been dead since July 22, 1934. Evelyn Billie Frechette was John Dillinger's one true love. Purvis' FBI raid at Little Bohemia was a disaster. Rather, Evelyn Frechette became famous and drew crowds for national speaking tours because of her association with gangsters. The two reporters then ran up to the car-I talked several times to one of them many years later-and began swearing. Yes. 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. Dillinger tried to disguise himself on the There was, of course, a very good reason to give Purvis this story. that bank robber John Dillinger watched It has been reported that John Dillinger accompanied Polly Hamilton to the police station four times for her health examinations without being noticed (FBI.gov). What a joke. Upon her release in 1936, Frechette toured in a theatrical show calledCrime Doesn't Paywith members of Dillinger's family. O n this day, Jan. 13, in 1969, Evelyn "Billie" Frechette, best known for her relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s, died at age 61. According to the book John Dillinger Slept Here by Paul Maccabee, the manager reported the couple as being suspicious after they insisted on using the rear entrance and stayed in most of the time.

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