Because of this level of criminal activity , Van Meter and the gang became the subject of an intense FBI manhunt . Eddie Green was ambushed and killed by the F.B.I. on April 3 . Days earlier , Van Meter , Dillinger , and Dillinger 's girlfriend Billie Frechette had narrowly escaped from police in St. Paul after a gunfight . Later , on April 23 , while fleeing from Little Bohemia Lodge , Dillinger , Van Meter and Hamilton were involved in a gun battle in Hastings , Minnesota . Hamilton was mortally wounded and died four days later at the house of Volney Davis . Dillinger , Van Meter , and members of the Barker Gang buried him in a gravel pit near Oswego , Illinois
Little Bohemia Lodge
Little Bohemia Lodge
Homer Van Meter