Crown Point Sheriff's House and Jail, Crown Point, Indiana - Discussion
Anonymous
· Oct. 30, 2025, 8:08 p.m.
Discussion thread for Crown Point Sheriff's House and Jail, Crown Point, Indiana.
The Crown Point Sheriff's House was built in 1882, and the jail was added on in 1926. This is the very jail from which John Dillinger made his notorious escape in 1934. He used jail-issued razor blades to carved a gun out of part of a wooden washboard. He used shoe polish to stain it black. The...
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