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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:14:04 GMT -5
Ten years!!. Ack! So close!! If only we'd known about him, maybe he could have solved that particular legend a long time ago. Michael818
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:15:23 GMT -5
What, and deprive me of the joy of solving it? No way. Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:17:50 GMT -5
But, I'm sure YOU would have been the one to find him, Maria. So it STILL would hve been you!!! Michael818
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:19:06 GMT -5
Aint that the truth!!! I wish I had a Sherlock Holmes smiley. Angel71242
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:19:47 GMT -5
Here you go Angel. Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:22:25 GMT -5
"Holmes! Holmes! The hounds of the Baskerville! It's after me.! ...Watson Michael818
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:24:24 GMT -5
The hounds of Baskerville is one of my favorite stories by Sherlock Holmes. My very favorite one by him is 'The Last Vampyre". Maria
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 20:26:15 GMT -5
I too am a researcher, not an author. Like someone told me a long time ago, everybody has a book in them. Laurie1125
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 23:24:16 GMT -5
Has it been noted that the "onfamous Dillinger" five years into a nine year sentence at the Indiana State Prison on Christmas Day, 1929? That he wasn't released until 1933, and was dead by the summer of the next year, after movements that have been tracked pretty extensively by Historians? I just say this because I still get emails from people who believe not only did Dillinger visit the house but that he was bragging about getting away with the murders there. Although in the documentary, we do get an explanation from Wade Nichols about how big events get "tied" to other more well known events (such as dillinger's crime spree) in order to keep the story alive. Matt32
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 23:29:21 GMT -5
I believe the name similarities between him and the Stokes County Trooper, coupled with the suggestion of his gang's 1933 or 34 trip to Florida, can be the source of the Dillinger Legend. As you said Matt, he was in prison at the time of the killings so there's no way he could have done in the Lawsons. Michael818
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 23:46:38 GMT -5
I definitely think people would have preferred that it had been the bank robber Dillinger instead of the Highway Patrolman, just because it adds more notoriety to an already notorious happening. Plus they probably think it's cool that a famous person would go to there town, no matter the reason. But thanks to Maria we now know the truth. Angel17242
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Post by Angela on Apr 16, 2009 23:50:09 GMT -5
The above post is the last post in the John Dillinger thread from the old Lawson forum. Man are my fingers tired from writing all these posts by hand then typing each one of them. WHEW!!!! Good-night all. Maria
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Post by angel71242 on Apr 17, 2009 8:32:37 GMT -5
Wow Maria!! You went to a lot of trouble to put this one in! But this is another very important post and I appreciate you copying it in here!!!
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Post by John on Mar 7, 2022 20:16:52 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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