Most notable of these was John Dillinger. Legendary Lawman Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. This month’s lawman is most noted for the capture of John Dillinger and the less than stellar history between J.

John Dillinger's crime spree ended on July 22, 1934 thanks to SC FBI Agent Melvin Purvis. John Herbert Dillinger's life of crime ended on July 22, 1934. Dillinger is remembered as arguably the ...

Halfway through Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, about the time I should have been engrossed in the tommy-guns-a-blazin’ battle between bad guy John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and good guy Melvin Purvis ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The son of legendary FBI agent Melvin Purvis says J. Edgar Hoover ruined his father's career because he was getting too much publicity. Purvis resigned from the FBI in ...

A young Federal Agent named Melvin Purvis headed up an exhaustive investigation, involving hundreds of leads. But eighty years later, the crash remains a mystery, the first case of aviation ...

Melvin Purvis Jr., the FBI man famous for tracking down John Dillinger and other gangsters in the 1930s. Workers found the documents in the Summit County courthouse attic, the Akron Beacon Journal ...

Call (415) 626-3311 or visit www.theintersection.org). His name is no longer as well known as the men he hunted, but Melvin Purvis was famous once as the FBI agent who brought down John Dillinger ...