The Dillinger Molls Travelogue:
A Photo History
The molls of the Dillinger gang
travelled throughout the Midwest and Southwest during the Depression.
The Barker gang women went as far South as Ocala, Florida, where she
died. Evelyn Frechette, Pat cherrington, Opal Long and Mary Kinder
stayed in Daytona, Florida in December 1933. Helen Gillis went out to
California with Baby Face Nelson.
Their lives were tragic and their
choices doomed them to bereavement, prison, and social stigma. They
paid a high price for their whirlwind tour of the United States. They
sat alongside their men in Ford V-8s, Studebakers, Buicks and
Terraplanes, as they drove through big cities and small towns.
Occasionally, one would take a small airplane, or "aeroplane" as they
were called in those days.
Travel was the only way molls could
stay one step ahead of police and FBI surveillance. Here is a tour of
some of the places that hosted the molls of the Dillinger Gang, from
Chicago to San Francisco. Their expensive luggage was impressive, but
the tags listed assumed names and phony home addresses.
[Their Home
Was The Road. ]