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Little Bohemia gained fame and infamy as the setting of a botched raid by the FBI, then called the Bureau of Investigation, against the John Dillinger Gang. The historic rustic lodge remains as it was at the time of the federal raid and along with original bullet holes from the gun battle still in the walls and windows, Little Bohemia Lodge has ...
Dillinger and his gang had been on the run ever since his March 3 escape. They wanted to rest somewhere remote. At a restaurant just outside Chicago, the Little Bohemia Lodge in remote northern Wisconsin came up in conversation in on April 19. [19] The gang decided to hide there for a few days and they arrived the afternoon of April 20.
Little Bohemia Lodge, a resort and restaurant in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, where criminal John Dillinger was in a gunfight with federal agents Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Little Bohemia .
In 1934, at the Little Bohemia Lodge on Little Star Lake, the FBI and Dillinger Gang were involved in a shootout, which resulted in the accidental shooting death of one local Civilian Conservation Corps worker and severely injuring two other workers by federal agents who mistook them for members of the gang.
The Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin becomes a place of interest when the newly formed FBI and Melvin Purvis battles the legendary bank robber, John Dillinger and his gang via shootout on April 20, 1934.
Proceeding the events of the Mason City, Iowa robbery, John Dillinger and his crew reached for safety at Little Bohemia Lodge, located in northern Wisconsin. The owner of the lodge grew suspicious after seeing the behavior of the group of men, and tipped the FBI. Three FBI agents positioned themselves about the cabin, and waited.
One of those weapons was a .38 Super Colt pistol that had been modified so it was fully automatic. Nelson used this gun to kill Special Agent W. Carter Baum at Little Bohemia Lodge several months later. [13] On December 9, 1933, a local woman tipped off San Antonio police regarding the presence nearby of "high-powered Northern gangsters".
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the neighborhood was known colloquially as Little Bohemia [4] or Bohemia Village. [5] Bohemia is the historical name for the western portion of the modern day Czech Republic , and was the source of many (but not all) Czech language speaking immigrants to the area.