Old Crown Point Jail - Paranormal Investigation

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Published Oct 11, 2016

Daywalkers Paranormal Investigations jumped at the chance to investigate this historic location located in Crown Point, Indiana. Daywalkers brought the SLS camera, IR camera, a Canon camera, REM pods, Mel Meters, and other emf detectors to explore the building and jail cells.
The building is famous for housing such violent criminals as John Dillinger jr, and Al Capone hitman James "Fur" Sammons.
Daywalkers sought out contact with the ghosts of sheriff Lillian Holley, who ran the jail at the time of John Dillinger's escape. We also sought out contact with James "Fur" Sammons and any other ghosts willing to communicate.
We did have one member grabbed while she was filming.
A little history about the location:
Built in 1882, the house and jail were the county’s first permanent buildings for this purpose. By 1910, the jail facility was inadequate and the first of a series of additions was built. A new jail was built in 1974 and in 1989, the old sheriff’s house and jail was placed in the National Register of Historic Places.

At about the time of the Civil War, a new architectural style enjoyed a rather brief and intense popularity. This was the Second Empire or French Mansard style based on contemporary French architecture. During the years when Louis-Napolean reigned over France’s Second Empire (1851-1870), French architects revived the mansard roof, a seventeenth century design associated with the work of architect Francois Mansart. In France the Second Empire was a period of highly-charged nationalism and to the French people the mansard roof was a distinctly French innovation whose nineteenth century revival evoked the glories of their country’s late Renaissance era. To Americans, increasingly looking to Paris for the latest in fashion, the Second Empire style was a strikingly modern and sumptuous form of architecture.

The mansard roof, the major defining element of the Second Empire style, is a dual pitched hipped roof, the lower slope being quite steep with a concave, convex or straight surface, and the upper slope being of a low pitch so that it is often concealed. In addition to the mansard roof, the Second Empire style is characterized by lavish ornamentation and boldness of form. Second Empire homes and public buildings were generally imposing structures, often with towers. The roof ridges were decorated with cast iron cresting; quoins and decorative eaves brackets with round heads and highly embellished surrounds. The style was well suited to the flamboyant post-Civil War and post-railroad era when ostentation was not discouraged.

DILLINGER’S ESCAPE

With the exception of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Dionne quintuplets, no celebrity received more attention locally during the early 1930s than bank robber John Herbert Dillinger. He carried out a series of daring heists in New Castle, Daleville, Montpelier, Blufton and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dillinger robbed the First National Bank of East Chicago Indiana. During the getaway he fatally shot his first man, Patrolman William Patrick O’Malley. Three weeks later, Dillinger was captured in Arizona.

When Lake County, Indiana, officials heard of Dillinger’s capture, they made plans to arraign him for the murder of Officer O’Malley. In charge of the extradition arrangements was county prosecutor Robert Estill, a politically-ambitious New Deal Democrat, who discovered that he was competing with several other jurisdictions for the captive.

Successful in winning custody of Dillinger, Estill escorted him to his new place of confinement, the supposedly “escape proof” Crown Point, Indiana, jail.

Local politicians considered it a feather in their caps to have gained custody of Dillinger and posed amicably with him in a crowded room of the Criminal Courts building. The most widely publicized shot showed Dillinger and Estill with their arms around each other.

Shortly after 9 a.m. on March 3, 1934, John Dillinger and his black cellmate, Garyite Herbert Youngblood, escaped from the Crown Point jail.

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