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The Lady in Red
By John & Lenore Weiss
As the story goes…
they had arranged with his gal pal,
Anna Sage, who would be with Dillinger, to be wearing an all red outfit.
The rest is history. Forever, Anna
Sage would be known as “The Lady
in Red.”
In 1935 Anna Sage was deported
to Romania. But before she left, she
lived in a second floor apartment on
Water Street just north of Route
66 in Wilmington. For protection
she was always accompanied by her
two large German shepherds.
Also, as the story goes, Melvin Purvis was in charge of the FBI
group that gunned down Dillinger.
Later, after he retired, Melvin Purvis committed suicide with the same
gun he used to shoot John Dillinger.
Also of interest – the current building owner says he is not sure if the
story about Anna Sage living there
is true or not. It is also interesting
to mention that his downstairs pub is
called the BLIND MULE. Yes, that’s
another story. Ask him about it!
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You may have heard the story of
how the FBI and police associates
gunned down the infamous public enemy number one, John Dillinger. It
happened in 1934 at the Biograph
Movie Theater on north Lincoln
Street in Chicago. The FBI had plans
to capture and/or kill Dillinger as he
was leaving the theater after watching the movie, “Manhattan Melodrama.” The FBI told all the g-men that
they could easily recognize Dillinger
even if he was in disguise. You see,
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