Thursday, January 22, 2009

Paragraph #10 outside post

Dillinger was defeated. He was in jail for the second time. Escape seemed less probable. His gang members were captured with him or already in jail. There were few places left to run. Dillinger is caught. Matera describes the events, "These bastards won't give me a break. I was supposed to be brought before the Tucson judge, but those Chinamen hustled me out!" (Matera 188). Dillinger was not getting the fair trial he believed he deserved. The question was weather or not he deserved a fair trial. Dillinger had the blood of many officers on his hands, he had stoles thousands of dollars. If it was up to the public, he'd be dead. Unfortunately, that isn't how the justice system works. Dillinger was to be killed. Either he'd be killed, or face a trial for murder. The only thing that ironically saved him was a crowd of the public. Many wanted him dead, Matera writes "Stege wasn't able to execute Dillinger on the runway, as he so ached to do" (188). Captiain Stege was only the man who was in charge of transporting Dillinger to the courthouse, he wanted him dead. If there weren't so many people there, Dillinger would have died that day. If Stege wanted him dead a little bit, Matt Leach wanted him dead more. Leach was the guy assigned to catch him from the very beginning. Leach was one step behind him for years. The papers insulted Leach many times for failing to bring in Dillinger. The force wanted the Jackrabbit dead, but they couldn't do it in front of the public.

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