# Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/lester-gillis/

Wanted by the Division of Investigation for the killing of Special Agent W. Carter Baum near Little Bohemia Lodge in April 1934; died after the gun battle at Barrington, Illinois on 27 November 1934, as the FBI states.

Filed in the Public Enemies side section. This is not an organized-crime family page: the records here are federal fugitive, court and prison records.

The aliases are those on Identification Order No. 1223, with "Jimmie Williams" from the National Archives' note on the Little Bohemia case. The order and the FBI's other pages give different dates for Baum's death (April 23 and April 22, 1934); both are shown above.

## Sources

- FBI history: Lester Gillis ("Baby Face" Nelson): https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/lester-gillis-baby-face-nelson
- Division of Investigation, Identification Order No. 1223 (25 April 1934), as published by the FBI. The order is a federal work; its photographs carry a Chicago police number.: https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/lester-gillis-baby-face-nelson