Dillinger Items Fetch Some Cash

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Aug 1, 2009 8:00PM

An auction of some things related to legendary bank bandit John Dillinger - didn't they make a movie about him recently - fetched some decent coin at a recent auction. A hand-written letter from Dillinger to his niece Mary Hancock sold for $60,400, more than 10 times than it expected to go for. A gun used in the dramatic shoot-out that killed Dillinger in front of the Biograph Theater also sold for a good price, at $36,400. [WBBM]