Evelyn Frechette

Mary Evelyn "Billie " Frechette ( born September 15, 1907 in Neopit, Wisconsin, United States, † January 13, 1969 in Shawano, Wisconsin ) was an American singer and waitress, by their personal relationship with John Dillinger in the early 1930s became known.

Your relationship with Dillinger lasted about six months until their arrest and detention in 1934. According to other sources, her relationship with Dillinger began at an earlier date. Her two -year prison sentence ended in 1936. Subsequently she toured with the family of Dillinger as "Crime Does Not Pay Show" for five years through the country.

Life

Frechette was born in the Menominee Indian Reservation. She described her mother (born Mary Labell ) the origin as " half French and half Indian " and her father's as simple French. My paternal great-grandfather was Moses Frechette Sr., a fur trader from Quebec, who moved to the U.S. in 1850, and was naturalized in Brown Township, Michigan and lived in Menominee. His first wife was her great-grandmother, her parents were Mawsawquot and Poway. The first of eight generations of North American Frechette was Guillaume, he came from France to Quebec City 1655-1680.

The parents of Moses Frechette Sr. were Charles and Ursule ( Girouard ) Frechette. Moses was born in Quebec on ​​December 10, 1824. He married Marie Leclair Nokishiki, and they had 12 children. Moses Frechette Jr. and two of his siblings were still living in the Menominee Reservation, he was the father of Evelyn Frechette.

Her father died when she was eight years old.

In 1925 she married Welton Sparks, who was convicted of mail robbery and in the same year was serving a prison sentence.

Entanglement with John Dillinger

Frechette was arrested by a team from the FBI, led by Melvin Purvis on April 9, 1934. Her arrest was observed by Dillinger and a companion. The indictment accused her of harboring the criminal Dillinger in her apartment in the Twin Cities. She was sentenced to two years in a federal prison or $ 2,000 fine.

Later life

Frechette returned to Menominee, where she married twice more. She died in 1969 from cancer.