Melvin Horace Purvis II was an FBI agent who was instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. In his later military career, he was directly involved with General
FBI Special Agent Jay C. Newman, wounded in the line of duty by Babyface Nelson
Herman Edward Hollis was an American law-enforcement officer who worked as special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As an FBI special agent in the 1930s, Hollis worked with agents Melvin
FBI photograph of the Biograph Theater in 1934 soon after Dillinger's death
A plaque at Langendorf Park commemorates the site of the Battle of Barrington, a 1934 shootout that claimed the lives of FBI agents Hollis and Samuel P. Cowley and resulted in the death of notorious Chicago gangster Baby Face Nelson.
Hollis's grave at Glendale Cemetery