On This Date in Minnesota History: March 13

March 13, 1934 – “Just after midnight, homeowner Dr. Nels Mortensen answers his doorbell” on Fairmount Avenue in St. Paul, to find “wounded gangsters John Dillinger and John Hamilton on his front steps.”

http://www.placeography.org/index.php/2252_Fairmount_Avenue%2C_Saint_Paul%2C_Minnesota

John Dillinger
http://www.squidoo.com/johndillinger

John Hamilton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Hamilton.jpg

Dr. Nels Mortensen's home in St. Paul
Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain March 13, 2017,
as long as acknowledgement included.  

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