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Perhaps no one, in 1934 and 2009, knows that better than Hoosiers. Folks in Elkhart and Kokomo have felt the current economic misery more so than most Americans. And 75 years ago, Indiana was the site of many incidents involving Dillinger and his gang of robbers.
Dillinger left his infamous imprint on Terre Haute and the Wabash Valley, specifically. Two members of the “first” Dillinger gang had lived in Terre Haute — Russell “Boobie” Clark and Edward Shouse. The notorious Harry “Pete” Pierpont, reputedly Dillinger’s criminal mentor, lived in Clay County as a young man.
They even had at least one Terre Haute hideout, and perhaps more. In September 1933, Dillinger paid a Kokomo brothel owner, Pearl Elliott, $27,000 to buy and equip a refuge house at 2531 Fenwood Ave., according to Terre Haute historian and attorney Mike McCormick. That November, 150 men from the Indiana National Guard, Terre Haute Police and Indiana State Police raided the Fenwood Avenue house and another on Second Avenue, but the Dillinger gang was already gone.

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