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DALLAS — An auction house said a wooden gun that John Dillinger’s relatives think was hand-carved and used by the one-time “Public Enemy No. 1” to escape jail has sold for $19,120 at auction.
The artifact was one of 11 items put up for bid Saturday by Dillinger’s younger sister, Frances Helen Dillinger, at an Arms & Militaria auction at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.
Heritage arms and militaria director Dennis Lowe said the notorious Depression-era bank robber supposedly used the item to bluff his way out of a Crown Point, Ind., jail March 3, 1934.
A $14,340 winning bid was made for a dollar bill said to have been in Dillinger’s pocket when he was gunned down in an ambush by FBI agents outside a Chicago theater in June 1934.
