Dillinger

This might be difficult, but try to imagine someone sincerely making this weird proposal to you."I have an idea for what we can do tonight. Let's go find a stranger and murder him."Huh?"Yeah, then we'll chop up his body and cook some of it. Maybe eat his heart."Whaa?"Sure. And we can put the leftovers away in the freezer. How's about it?"Assuming that you thought this person wasn't being humorous, how would you assess his mental stability?If you didn't spring away screaming, you would probably sputter, "You're crazy," or words to that effect.

WASHINGTON -- They came from as far away as Germany and as nearby as Silver Spring. But at the corner of 9th and E streets, visitors to the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building all found disappointment at their final destination yesterday.The attraction that brought them there -- the popular public tour of the FBI's headquarters -- has been halted indefinitely, after recent unspecified threats against the agency's facilities in Washington.By yesterday, news of the tour cancellations, which began Friday, had clearly not reached everyone in the nation's capital.

If you're a believer in the pop culture marketplace, then you nTC know that no one loves a murderer like an American does.Popular iconography includes Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, and Bonnie and Clyde. But even those deemed too weird, psychotic or unredeemable for mass hero worship -- Chessman, DeSalvo, Gacy, Bundy -- have had their followings.They are written about, read about, studied by psychiatrists, law enforcers and loners. Recently serial killers have been put on the faces of a line of trading cards.

On August 20, 2005, CHARLES WILLIAM KRONER, SR., of Mt. Airy; beloved husband of the late Dorothy Ella Sauter Kroner, devoted father of Bill Kroner, Jr. and his wife Kathleen, Robert W. Kroner and Elise Langrehr; dear brother of Charlotte "Sis" Engel, Mildred Dillinger, Dorothy Lanasa and Norma Grine and the late Alan Kroner; also survived by six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Funeral Services will be held on Thursday at 11 A.M. from Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, Rt. 32 near Eldersburg.

Where have all the good bad guys gone? You know the type - the dashing, likable, maybe even lovable, rogue, craftier and a step faster than the authorities trying to catch him; one who steals mostly from the well-off and shares some of it with the less fortunate (preferably without comparing himself to Robin Hood); an outlaw who, if he does kill, does so only sparingly, and without consuming the casualties afterward. He comes from meager beginnings, usually; probably was a victim of some unfair treatment; and his lawbreaking - looked at in context - almost seems logical, maybe even just, especially if it involves some entity we'd all like to get revenge against.

Opening Wednesday Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: (20th Century Fox) The prehistoric gang has 3-D adventures with a new species: dinosaurs. Public Enemies: (Universal Pictures) Outlaw John Dillinger faces off with the top agent of the brand-new FBI. With Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Cheri : (Miramax) A man retreats into fantasy after he's forced to end an affair with an older woman. With Michelle Pfeiffer. Opening next Friday O'Horten: (Sony Pictures Classics) An engineer is forced to retire and give up his scheduled, structured life.

MOVE OVER, Great Pumpkin. You've got competition.The Cloisters Children's Museum is filled with pumpkins that look like lamps and lions and ladies, with pumpkins dressed up as Santa Claus and decked out to carry Cinderella, or her contemporary counterpart, Barbie.They're all great pumpkins, but there's not a jack-o-lantern among them.Area beauticians, teachers, florists, designers and advertising executives created about 55 of these fashionable pumpkins for Le Masque Macabre, last weekend's benefit for Baltimore's Pumpkin Theatre.

Elisha Cook Jr., 91, the villain in more than 100 movies, including a role as a sycophantic, frustrated killer in "The Maltese Falcon," died Thursday at Big Pine, Calif., after an illness of several months. He played shifty-eyed gangsters, hired guns, vengeful ex-convicts and quiet, psychotic killers in a career that spanned 54 years. He played in such classics as "Sergeant York," "Dillinger," "The Big Sleep," "The Great Gatsby" and "Rosemary's Baby." In one of his few roles as a good guy, he played the defiant homesteader killed by Jack Palance in "Shane."

From The Sun June 25-July 1, 1845June 28: It is certainly a pleasant thing to have the streets watered daily, and those who bear the expense of it deserve the thanks of the community.July 1: The Battle of New Orleans and other performances, in honor of the memory of Ex-President Jackson, will be performed at the Front Street Theatre to-night.4&From The Sun June 25-July 1, 1895June 25: The first completed of the row of twelve handsome houses now in the course of erection on Eutaw Place extended, above North Avenue and opposite the Gill estate, was last night illuminated from top to bottom and its conveniences exhibited by the builder, Mr. Jacob S. Rosenthal.

Seven women stand reverently in front of the grave marker of Albertina Allen Forrest. The women do not know her -- she died in 1904 -- but they are learning a bit about her as part of an art and architecture tour at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. Forrest is one of more than 190,000 people buried in the cemetery. Among them are Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger and President Benjamin Harrison, whose grave is one of the top tourist destinations in the cemetery. The mix of historic figures and lush grounds draws 2,000 to 3,000 people a year to Crown Hill's public tours, generally offered twice monthly from March through November.