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Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette (September 15, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was an American Métis singer, waitress, convict, and lecturer known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s. Frechette is known to have been involved with Dillinger for about six months, until her arrest and imprisonment in 1934. She finished two years in prison in 1936, then toured the United States with Dillinger's family for five years with their "Crime Did Not Pay" show. She married and returned to the Menominee Indian Reservation, where she was born, for a quieter life in her later decades. ==Early life== Frechette was born in Neopit, Wisconsin, on the Menominee Indian Reservation.〔, "Lareau Family Master File" on RootsWeb.com〕 She described the background of her mother (née Mary Labell) as "half French and half Indian",〔("Primary Sources: 'What I Knew About John Dillinger' – By His Sweetheart" ), ''Public Enemy #1'', ''American Experience'' (represented by them as transcriptions of two installments in a series of articles by her, ''The Chicago Herald and Examiner'', August 1934.〕 and that of her father as simply French. (Her paternal great-grandfather was Moses Frechette Sr., a fur trader born in Quebec, who moved to the U.S. in 1850 and became a US citizen in Brown Township, Michigan. He lived in Menominee. As of 2009, about 90 descendants named Frechette lived there.〔(''Les Descendants des Fréchette'' (English version) )〕 His wife—one of Billie's great-grandmothers—had parents named ''Mawsawquot'' and ''Poway.'' The immigrant ancestor of the Frechettes in North America immigrated to Quebec City from France between 1655 and 1680.)〔〔, "Lareau Family Master File"〕 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. He named one son after him. In later years, Moses Frechette Jr. and two of his siblings continued to reside on the Menominee Reservation. He became the father of Evelyn Frechette.〔 . Mary Frechette's father died when she was eight years old. She attended a mission school on the reservation, and then was sent to a government boarding school for Indians in South Dakota. After time there, she moved to her aunts to become a nurse. At the age of 18, she moved to Chicago to be closer to her sister.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evelyn Frechette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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