His "ace" agent had killed an innocent man in April 1934 in the FBI's frantic attempt to capture Dillinger, and the same "ace" did the same thing three months later in July 1934. Purvis, for the moment, not Hoover, was the hero of the hour-a very brief bitter hour, indeed. In the 1930s, a legendary bank robber Purvis arrived in Washington some days later and Hoover was waiting for him at the train station. He knew that only local police had the authority to make official arrests before suspects were turned over to his agents to face federal charges--in Kelly's case a kidnapping charge. In 1932 she married Welton Spark, a career criminal who was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary immediately after the wedding. Only once did Frechette perform as an accessory to Dillinger's criminal activities, driving a getaway car after Minnesota police discovered the couples' apartment. American Experience | Public Enemy #1 | People & Events - PBS She served two years in federal prison, and was released in 1936. His mother died when he was young, and he was mostly cared for by his older sister Audrey. She once drove a getaway car after Dillinger was shot by the police. At the time, Sage was facing deportation charges as an "alien of low moral character." stop him. But their marriage was short-lived due to the fact that Spark was sentenced to serve 15 years at Leavenworth on the charge of robbing drugstores' postal substations. Facing Fear: The True Story of Evelyn Frechette - amazon.com Evelyn "Billie" Frechette (1907-1969) | American Experience | PBS Three civilian men who had just finished dinner stepped outside with rifles in their hands and got into their car. witnessed the shooting. After time there, she moved to her aunt's to become a nurse. The two became inseparable. There was NOTHING haphazard or slipshod about that autopsy since the physicians had already told Purvis that the corpse was most likely not that of John Dillinger.