United States of America vs. John Hamilton, et al. (Little Bohemia Lodge, Wisconsin, 1934)

Companion federal case to the Little Bohemia prosecution, charging John Hamilton and others with concealing John Dillinger and resisting Division of Investigation agents on 22 April 1934.

Date

1934-05-19/1961-06-20

Kind

case-file

Source

National Archives Catalog

Retrieved

2026-10-12

NAID

470787140

Docket

10923

Rights

A record of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, 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 National Archives describes this case as concerning “the concealment of Dillinger.” The scope note repeats the Little Bohemia account of the companion case and quotes the charge that the defendants “did resist and obstruct special agents of the Division of Investigation … who were then and there endeavoring to discover and arrest the said John Dillinger.” Forty-six page images are online, and the catalog’s date range runs to 1961.

The defendants listed in the catalog’s note include John Hamilton, Homer Van Meter, Herbert W. Reilly, Lester M. Gillis, Thomas Leonard Carroll, Marie Marion Conforti, Jean Crompton, Helen Gillis and Patricia Young. The number 10923 is the catalog’s agency-assigned identifier. The pages were not read for this archive.