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Lester Gillis was born in Chicago in 1908. He started out as a petty criminal but in 1929 began working for Al Capone. He assumed the name Baby Face Nelson and developed a reputation for a willingness to carry out vicious killings.
In 1934 Nelson joined the John Dillinger gang and took part in several bank robberies before being killed in a police shoot-out with FBI agents on 27th November, 1934.
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