Record

Case file

1935/1936

National Archives Catalog

The United States of America vs. Anna Hamilton Campbell Steve, Charles Campbell, John Hamilton, and Pat Cherrington (harboring, 1934)

Federal criminal case file on the harboring of John Dillinger at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1934. Forty digitized pages.

Date
1935/1936
Kind
case-file
Retrieved
2026-10-12
NAID
464828806
Docket
3306
Rights
A record of the U.S. District Court (Michigan), held by the National Archives in Record Group 21, Records of District Courts of the United States. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog marks use "Unrestricted." The catalog lists the file in Record Group 21 and gives 3306 as the court-assigned case number.

The National Archives’ scope note reads in full: “The United States of America vs. Anna Hamilton Campbell Steve, Charles Campbell, John Hamilton, and Pat Cherrington involves the harboring of fugitive bank robber John Dillinger in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1934.” The catalog records 3306 as “the court-assigned case number” and refers to the related forfeiture case over a Ford V-8 sedan (No. 272).

Forty page images are online; they were not read for this archive. The defendants named in the title were charged; this page does not state a verdict, because the catalog does not.