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.

This documentary examines Purvis' life and sheds some light on his gruesome death. Melvin Purvis, the Timmonsville native with the unassuming name, skyrocketed to fame in the 1930's as the leader ...

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 ...

Back in the day, if you wanted to catch a bank robber, you had to put together a posse, call in Melvin Purvis, or hire a woman in a red dress: the stuff of glamour and drama. But these days not ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMERICAN AGENT—Melvin H. Purvis—Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Inhibited by the need for keeping professional secrets from criminals, officers of the law usually write books that have all the bad ...

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 ...