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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 17:38:08 GMT -5
Here is another thread from the old Charlie Lawson forum that was one of your favorites Angel. I copied this from the CD of saved posts you sent me. I am adding the original name of each person's original post.
Here goes:
We've all heard how a note proported to be from the infamous bank robber John Dillinger was nailed to Hillary Hampton's door saying that he, John Dillinger (the bank robber) had been at the Lawson house that day and the Sheriff never recognized him. According to Hillary Hampton's wife 96 year old Sadie, John Dillinger was indeed at the Lawson house that day. Only proplem is, it was a highway patrolman from Stokes County whose name was also John Dillinger!!!! So folks, mystery solved. Same name, different men!!!!!
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 17:55:37 GMT -5
As usual...you have solved another mystery for us Maria. Of course I believe I can speak for most of us here when I say that no one in this forum ever believed that John Dillinger had anything to do with the murders or that he was ever in Stokes County. The only sharp shooter here was Charlie Lawson.
Luvmydog
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 17:57:29 GMT -5
That part about Charlie Lawson being the only sharp shooter was good Luvmydog!!!! Brilliant in fact!!!
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 18:01:38 GMT -5
I think this is amazing Maria. Congratulations. I don't know how you do it but this forum is so full of information that if I didn't have to work I could spend all day in here just reading. Keep up the good work and thanks again for telling me about this forum.
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 18:03:22 GMT -5
Cool...great Maria. You know you have uncovered enough stuff to do your own book.
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 18:39:47 GMT -5
Until the Scapbook is finished and I see how it does I really can't even think about writing a book. I keep reminding myself that I am a researcher, not a writer, except of poetry. I would rather work as a researcher with someone who is an established and well respected author and contribute to a book that way. A ghost writer sort of thing. I provide the story line and research and let them put it into story form. My first choice would be Ann Rule.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 18:42:53 GMT -5
Ann Rule!!!! Yes, that would be awesome!!! As to John Dillinger- you are just incredible Maria. A new thing discovered about the Lawson murders 78 years later!!! That's really cool!!. You rock.
Angel71242
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 18:54:08 GMT -5
I knew John Dillinger was a bank robber, not a killer. The only person he ever killed was a policeman who kept shooting at him. So knowing that murder was not John dillinger's methed of operation I pretty much doubted he had killed the Lawson family. I also knew that during the five years the Lawson house tours were going on John Dillinger was in prison except for a month when he escaped. He was captured again and returned to prison. After his next escape by using a wooden gun he was gunned down and killed by the F.B.I. Therefore, chances of him travelling from Illinois to North Carolina to go on a tour of a house where a family was murdered was remote at best so I set out to prove that John Dillinger had not killed the Lawson family nor had he toured the cabin or been in Stokes county. It was so easy to do it was almost not worth it.!!!
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 18:57:17 GMT -5
Great find Maria. I could have seen the real gangster Dillinger having heard of the killings (it made big city papers after all) and being curious enough to visit the place. Now we know he didn't.
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 19:19:54 GMT -5
Bettye Rutledge just confirmed for me that there was indeed a highway patrolman in Stokes County named John Dillinger. I was real glad to get that confirmed because that makes three people in Stokes County to say that. The John Dillinger that was a highway patrolman retired in 1954 according to Richard Rutledge.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 19:21:58 GMT -5
Third times a charm!!! I'd say this mystery is definitetly solved with 3 confirmations. Thanks Maria.
Angel71242
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 19:26:24 GMT -5
Sadie Hampton said the other day that she nor Hillary ever knew what happened to Trooper Dillinger. She said he just suddenly disappeared one day and they never knew where or why he went or what happened to him. But I heard from one of my confirmation sources last night that Trooper Dillinger ws run out of town. She didn't know what he had done, only that it was pretty bad. I'd sure love to know what it was.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 19:28:02 GMT -5
There's no telling what he did. But I'll say again, if anybody can find out it's you Maria.
Angel71242
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:10:45 GMT -5
I just had a fourth person confirm for me that there was a highway patrolman in Stokes county at the time of the Lawson murders named John Dillinger. He said he knew Dillinger real well, that he was a very dapper man who always dressed to perfection, always looked real good in whatever he wore. He did not know wht Dillinger did that got him run out of town either, only that he resigned over some problem or another. He said John Dillinger died around ten years ago.
Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:11:50 GMT -5
Awesome as always Maria.
Angel71242
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