The robbers operated across state lines , and Hoover pressed to have their crimes recognized as federal offenses so that he and his men would have the authority to pursue them and get the credit for capturing them . Initially , the Bureau suffered some embarrassing foul-ups , in particular with Dillinger and his conspirators . A raid on a summer lodge in Manitowish Waters , Wisconsin , called " Little Bohemia , " left a Bureau agent and a civilian bystander dead and others wounded ; all the gangsters escaped
Little Bohemia
Little Bohemia Lodge
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