Mary Northern Kinder (August 29, 1909 – May 21, 1981) was a Prohibition era gun moll, most noted for being the girlfriend of Harry Pierpont and associate of John Dillinger.
By the 1910 census, the family was residing in Washington Township, Morgan County, Indiana, where Mary's father's occupation was not listed.
[1] By the 1920 census, the family was living at 1060 West McCarty Street in Indianapolis, Indiana,[2] where Mary's father's occupation was listed as an engineer at a factory.
[3] Mary, along with her mother, discovered her father's body at their Indianapolis home after hearing a report from a shotgun blast in the early morning of November 12, 1925.
[4] On September 26, 1933, Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, John "Red" Hamilton, Russell Clark, Walter Dietrich, James "Oklahoma Jack" Clark, Edward Shouse, Joseph Fox, Joe Burns, and Jim Jenkins escaped from Michigan City,[5] using pistols that Dillinger had smuggled into the prison.
[8] Mary was one of two women, known to be associated with the John Dillinger gang, named to the Chicago Police Department's Public Enemies List.
She accompanied Pierpont, along with John Dillinger, Billie Frechette, Russell Clark, Opal Long, and Charlie Makley to Tucson, Arizona in January 1934.
The sheriff had been killed during the gangs break out of John Dillinger from the Allen County Jail on October 12, 1933.