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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...
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.
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 · However, one survives that sounds particularly convincing. The letter, found in the files of the FBI, is dated August 24, 1936, a year after Red’s body was found. It was sent by a former inmate known as “Happy” who knew some of the gang members, as well as Dillinger’s attorney, Louis Piquett.
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...
Jul 22, 2008 · One of the most famous cases in our 100-year history celebrates an anniversary today: On July 22, 1934, the gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago, moments after leaving the Biograph...
