Nation IN BRIEF : ILLINOIS : Dillinger Death Mask Copies Will Be Sold
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Copies of a death mask of bank robber John Dillinger, who was killed by FBI agents on a Chicago street 57 years ago, will soon be sold at auction, said Harold Rubin, the owner of the mask. Dillinger, 31, who was public enemy No. 1 at the time of his death, managed only to draw his pistol as the federal agents closed in outside the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. The latex death mask shows that the fatal bullet passed under his right eye, Rubin said.
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