This documentary examines Purvis' life and sheds some light on his gruesome death. ... including John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. ...

Those fireworks were the gunshots between Baby Face Nelson, then 25 years old and considered Public Enemy No. 1, John Paul Chase, a member of his gang, and FBI agents Samuel P. Cowley and Herman E ...

Taking cover behind a 1934 Chrysler Six Brougham, the notorious gangster “Baby Face” Nelson sprayed bullets from his submachine gun as FBI agents closed in on him in downtown Barrington. A ...

FBI agent Samuel Cowley died Nov. 28, 1934, a day after being hit in a shootout that took down notorious gangster Baby Face Nelson outside Chicago.

David Nelson — no relation to Baby Face, whose real name was Lester Joseph Gillis — found vintage clothes from the 1930s at Fantasy Festival Costume/Magic Centre in Algonquin, he said.

Lewis said Baby Face Nelson, who was born as Lester M. Gillis in 1908, was the most jovial and best gangster of all time and other infamous gangsters would not have lived as long if it wasn't for him.