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John "Red" Hamilton (August 27, 1898 – April 26, 1934) was a Canadian criminal and bank robber active in the 1920s–1930s, most notably as an associate of John Dillinger. He is best known for his lingering death and secret burial after being mortally wounded during a robbery.
Jun 6, 2021 · A Canadian named John Hamilton was a key participant in all of it, committing crime alongside prominent outlaw John Dillinger who was considered “Public Enemy Number One.” Most of the gangsters...
Jun 13, 2021 · A brother, William J. Hamilton is said to have called John “the brains” of the Dillinger gang. J. Edgar Hoover retorted that Hamilton was a “cold calculating rat.”
May 23, 2019 · Red’s fate remained in question long after Dillinger’s death in an alley outside the Biograph Theatre in Chicago on July 22. Even before the body was found, the FBI had been receiving reports from police and public claiming that Hamilton was still alive and hiding out in northern Indiana.
John “Red” Hamilton, aka Three Finger Jack, was a gangster and associate of John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd who was active in the mid-20th century. Hamilton was born in 1899 in Canada to an Irish-Canadian father from Ontario and a German-American woman from New York.
On December 14, John Hamilton, a Dillinger gang member, shot and killed a police detective in Chicago. A month later, the Dillinger gang killed a police officer during the robbery of the First...
On December 14, John Hamilton, a Dillinger gang member, shot and killed a police detective in Chicago. A month later, the Dillinger gang killed a police officer during the robbery of the First National Bank of East Chicago, Indiana.
