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Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr., né le 24 octobre 1903 et mort le 29 février 1960, est un policier et un agent fédéral américain. Il était surnommé « Little Mel » à cause de sa petite stature. Il est surtout connu pour avoir pourchassé John Dillinger et son gang [1].
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
Purvis became instantly famous as the "ace G-man." Reporters liked his idealistic, self-effacing manner. Purvis received many letters from women who offered themselves or their friends in...
9 mars 2020 · Purvis led manhunts for Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd before resigning from the agency in 1935. He served in Army Intelligence during World War II, rising to the rank of colonel, and helped compile evidence against Nazi leadership for the Nuremberg Trials.
Melvin Horace Purvis. To many people today, the name means nothing. But it was not so long ago that Purvis was a household name, and over 260,000 boys and girls were digging through boxes of Post Toasties breakfast cereal to get their very own decoder rings and Junior G-Man badges.
24 sept. 1979 · O ct. 22, 1934, G-Man Melvin Purvis cornered Bank Robber Charles (“Pretty Boy”) Floyd in a farmhouse near East Liverpool, Ohio. When Floyd, armed with two .45-cal. pistols, fled across a...
Melvin Purvis (1903-1960) William J. Helmer. Like his boss J. Edgar Hoover, Melvin Purvis was a middle-class Southerner.
