(From the Bluffton Ohio Historical Society)

The Bluffton Ohio Historical Society received the pieces from the John Dillinger jail cell in the old Allen County Jail in Lima.

Dillinger spent four days here in 1933.

We received the bars/door, sink, toilet, wall-mounted desk, chairs, coat hanger/shelf, and a nice old chair from the jail complex – all on permanent loan.

Now to work out funding to display all of this.

Special thanks to Allen County for making this happen.

Dillinger and his gang robbed Citizens National Bank of Bluffton of $2,100 on August 14th, 1933.