Evening star., 1933-09-04
Bailey Is Regarded
AS Most Dangerous
Criminal in Country
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, September A.
Harvey Bailey, who escaped from Jail at
Dallas, Tex, today is rated by authori-
ties as one of the Nations most dan
gerous criminals.
He was regarded as so desperate that
Federal authorities did not take him
from the Jail recently when he was ar
raigned on kidnapping charges in con-
nection with the 100000 ransom alb
duction of Charles F. Urschel, Okla
homa City oil man. A United States
commissioner went to the Jail for the
hearings and officers armed with ma
chine guns were posted about. Bailey's
bond was fixed at 100000.
Although others arrested in the kid
naping were removed to Oklahoma City,
Bailey was held in Dallas while Federal
officers guarded their plans for his
transfer to Oklahoma.
Recently Joseph B. keenan,, special
Assistant Attorney General in charge of
kidnapping and racket prosecutions, is
sued a challenge to Bailey and his
gangster friends at liberty to attempt to
effect his release.
keenan, declared the Government was
ready to answer any such attempts with
machine-gun fire.
Under Murder Indictment
Bailey is under murder indictment
here as one of the machine gunners
who killed four officers, one Depart
ment of Justice agent, and Frank NASH
Federal convict, in an ambush at the
Union Station Plaza June IT. Nash,
Oklahoma train robber, died in the
effort of his gangster friends to free
him while he was being returned to the
Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth
after his arrest at Hot Springs, Ark
Bailey and Wilbur Underhill, another
killer, led the bold break from the
Kansas State Penitentiary last Memor-
ial day in which IL prisoners escaped
by kidnapping Kirk Prather, then war
den, and two guards. A long series of
kidnapings, robberieS and shootings fol-
lowed the break. Underhill and three
others still are at large.
Bailey, middle-aged man of mas
Sive stature, was sent to the Kansas
prison, August II, 1882, to serve 10 to
so years for the $4,000 robbery of a
Fort Scott, KanS., bank He was cap
tured on a golf course in Kansas City
with Francis L. Keating and Thomas
Holden, Chicago mail train robbers, who
were returned to the LeavenWorth Fed
eral Penitentiary from which they had
escaped.
Convicted of Bank Robbery.
With Ed Davis, Jim Clark and Bob
Brady, three of those who escaped with
him in the Kansas prison break and
who still are at liberty, he was con-
victed of the Fort Scott Bank robbery.
Witnesses at the trial identified him
as the leader in the s2,00O,000 hold-up
September IT, 1890 of the Lincoln, Neb.,
/ Bank g. Trust Co., known as the
worlds largest bank robbery"
A few weeks before his arrest on a
gang sent a letter to an Oklahoma City
newspaper confessing the robbery of a
Black Rock, Ark, bank, for which
others were under arrest.
They authenticated the letter with
finger prints, which proved to be genu-
inc Authorities saw in the confession
possible attempt to establish an aibi
in the Kansas City Union Station
slaughter as the bank was robbed the
day before the killing here.
The desperate was reared on farm
in Sullivan County, Mo-, and served
in the World War.
1t was on the Bailey farm that Fred
(Killer) Burke, suspect in the Valen-
tines day massacre in Chicago and
then called Americas most desperate
criminal" was captured. Burke now is
serving life sentence in Michigan for
| Staying policeman. Bailey confessed
| he provided the hideout for Burke.
Trapped on Remote Farm.
Bailey was trapped August IA on a
remote farm near Paradise, Tex. A
squad of Federal officers, accompanied
by local authorities, surprised the fugi-
tive as he lay asleep on a cot in the
rear of the farm house. Although
Bailey had numerous weapons at hand
and motor car nearby, he offered no
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