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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