Cowley seems to have understood this relationship . After Purvis 's botched raid on Little Bohemia Lodge , Purvis went on a drinking spree , and Cowley hushed it all up . During the Dillinger stakeout , Cowley was in charge of the team at the Marbro Theater , while Purvis ' team was at the Biograph Theater . At 8:30 p.m. , Sage , Dillinger and Polly Hamilton strolled into the Biograph Theater to see Clark Gable in Manhattan Melodrama . Purvis phoned Cowley , who shifted the other men from the Marbro to the Biograph . Later , after Dillinger was killed , Purvis was in one room , holding a press conference and Cowley was in the next room reporting to Hoover over the phone . Hoover kept telling Cowley to break up the press conference , but Cowley refused
Little Bohemia Lodge
Little Bohemia Lodge
Samuel P. Cowley