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She was born August 29, 1909 in Indiana, the daughter of Lewis W. and Viola J. (Tansey) Northern.
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Mary Kinder
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Along with Pearl Elliott, she was one of two women listed by the Chicago Police Department"s Public Enemies list in 1933. By the 1910 census, the family was residing in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana, where Mary"s father"s occupation was not listed. By the 1920 census, the family was living at 1060 West McCarty Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Mary"s father"s occupation was listed as an engineer at a factory.
Mary, along with her mother, discovered her father"s body at their Indianapolis home after hearing a report from a shotgun blast in the early morning of November 12, 1925.
On September 26, 1933, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, John "Red" Hamilton, Russell Clark, Walter Dietrich, James "Oklahoma Jack" Clark, Edward Shouse, Joseph Fox, Joe Burns, and Jim Jenkins escaped from Michigan City, using pistols that Dillinger had smuggled into the prison. The escape had been careful planned before Dillinger"s parole by Pierpont, Hamilton and Dillinger.
After the prison break, Kinder was sought by police for her connection with the escapees. Authorities believed that she drove the automobile who brought the convicts to the home of Ralph Saffell, where they received food, clothing and shelter Mary"s sister, Mistress
Margaret Behrens, wife of William Behrens, had been held as an accomplice for three days.
Mary was one of two women, known to be associated with the John Dillinger gang, named to the Chicago Police Department"s Public Enemies List. Mary died May 21, 1981 in Plainfield, Hendricks County, Indiana.
