# The United States of America v. John Dillinger (federal case file, Hammond, Indiana, 1934)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-2694456-us-v-dillinger-hammond/

Eleven-page federal case file from Hammond, Indiana with the arrest warrant, indictment and praecipe for capias charging John Dillinger with the auto theft at Crown Point. The case was dismissed after his death.

The National Archives describes this file unit as the case file in "The United States of America v. John Dillinger," containing "an arrest warrant, indictment, and praecipe for capias." Its general note reads: "John Dillinger was indicted for auto theft he committed in Crown Point, Indiana. The case was dismissed when Dillinger was killed in Chicago on July 22, 1934." Eleven page images are online.

The catalog records the identifier CR797 as an agency-assigned number for the file. This archive has not confirmed that number on the scanned pages, so it is not given as a docket here. The arrest order in the file is [filed separately](/items/nara-2694465-dillinger-arrest-order-1934/) with its image; the other pages were not read for this archive.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2694456