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The gangs robbed around this county all through 1933–34; on this ground they left a funeral and a court action, and no job. The banked thread, restated at its strength: after Harry Pierpont's execution on 17 October 1934, his funeral was conducted at his parents' home on US 31 in Lakeville; in summer 1937 the town authorities took court action to clear the "roving coppersmiths" at Lena Pierpont's White City Inn (the Historical Bureau's essay, Tribune-cited, lk-rem-crime). Around that thread the era's documented course runs at county distance, never closer: the Dillinger gang's 1933–34 work was done in other towns' banks across Indiana, Ohio and the Dakotas, and the nearest bank robbery of record to this ground is the Walkerton State Bank's Wyatt branch robbery of May 1933 — Madison Township's, boundary-printed in lk-rem-crime-tests expressly to keep it out of this town's count. No carrier reached places a gang member, a gang car, a hideout night, or a dollar taken on Lakeville ground; the gang-era article for this town is therefore aftermath and residence, mapped as such: the gang's road in was US 31, the parents' road, and what stopped here was a coffin in 1934 and a nuisance action in 1937. Residue: the Tribune's October 1934 and summer 1937 files read entire, and the FBI's gang files, remain the row's settlers for any thread finer than the essay's; the map above stands at the essay's strength and does not pretend past it.