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Clean copy of Identification Order No. 1217 for John Dillinger, with ten fingerprints, front and profile photographs taken January 25, 1934, signature, description and criminal record.
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Identification Order No. 1217, John Dillinger (National Archives copy, 60-NP-319)

The National Archives' copy of the Division of Investigation's 12 March 1934 wanted notice for John Dillinger, catalogued as a photograph in the Department of Justice's records. A copy is stored here.

Date
1934-03-12
Kind
case-file
Source
National Archives Catalog
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
175539853
Rights
A record of the Department of Justice (Record Group 60, series "Photographs of Agency Personnel," NAID 597377), local identifier 60-NP-319. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog marks use "Unrestricted."

The National Archives catalogs this item under the plain title “John Dillinger,” dated March 12, 1934, in Record Group 60, General Records of the Department of Justice. The scan is the full face of Identification Order No. 1217 of the Division of Investigation, issued by J. Edgar Hoover, Director, under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act.

The order prints the description (age 31, height 5 feet 7-1/8 inches, weight 153 pounds), the photograph “taken January 25, 1934,” and the criminal record from a 1924 Indiana State Reformatory commitment to the Crown Point escape of March 3, 1934. Its last paragraph states that the U.S. Marshal at Chicago holds a warrant charging him with transporting Sheriff Lillian Holley’s Ford V-8 from Crown Point to Chicago. That is the charge as of March 12, 1934.

This copy carries no CANCELLED stamp; the FBI’s copy does. The text of the two is the same as far as both scans can be read.

itemIdentification Order No. 1217: John Dillinger (12 March 1934), stamped "Cancelled"Division of Investigation wanted notice for John Dillinger, alias Frank Sullivan, under the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, issued nine days after the Crown Point jail escape. The FBI's copy is stamped CANCELLED. A copy is stored here.item"Various Views of John Dillinger": FBI composite of nine photographsAn undated FBI photographic composite of nine views of John Dillinger's face, held by the National Archives in the FBI's records. A copy is stored here.itemOrder to arrest John Dillinger, U.S. District Court at Hammond, Indiana (11 June 1934)Capias issued by the federal court at Hammond on 11 June 1934 commanding the marshal to bring John Dillinger, with six aliases, to answer an indictment for motor theft, bail $25,000. The National Archives notes it was never served. A copy is stored here.