ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Aug. 4 (UPI) — Charles Winstead, who was credited with firing two of the bullets that killed John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, in 1934, died yesterday at the Albuquerque Veterans Hospital. He was 82 years old.

Mr. Winstead, for many years considered one of the most accurate pistol shots in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, also spent much of his early years in the agency chasing the gangster team of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow through Texas and Louisiana. But his meeting with Dillinger on the night of July 22, 1934, was the most?publicized event of his career.

He helped gun down the gangster when he emerged from the theater accompanied by two women, Anna Sage and Polly Hamilton.

Mr. Winstead later recalled that Dillinger was flanked by his two women companions when he emerged from the theater at about 9:30 P.M.

It was Anna Sage, the “woman in red,” who had tipped off the F.B.I. that Dillinger would be attending the showing of “Manhattan Melodrama” at the Biograph.

Mr. Winstead recalled Dillinger attempted to run into an alley and reached for his gun. The agents fired simultaneously. Dillinger began to “spin like top and fell dead.”

A laboratory analysis revealed that two of the bullets that hit Dillinger were fired by Mr. Winstead.

Mr. Winstead joined the F.B.I. after having served in World War I. He retired in 1943.

Survivois include hit, widow, Maude; two sons, and a daughter.

Charles Winstead (1891)