The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07
u. s. IDENTIFIES
GANG INVOLVED
IN MASSACRE
One Suspect Is Arrested in
Kansas City; Six Others
Are Sought.
HUNT OUTLAW FLOYD
Desperate Killers Are on
List; Machine Gunner
Is Named.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo, July THE
United States department of Justice
and the Kansas City police depart
ment announced today they knew
definitely the identification of the
gang which shot down four peace
officers and an escaped convict in
the Union station massacre here
June H.
simultaneously, it was learned
that an unidentified suspect had
been arrested He was apprehended
by federal agents and deputy sher-
IFS and rushed to the Jackson
county jail, where he was held in
communicate.
Charles Arthur Pretty Bow
Floyd, notorious Oklahoma outlaw.
and Harvey Bailey, escaped convict,
who formerly worked with Frank
Nash, the convict slain at the Union
station, were ordered arrested in
warrants issued today by Attorney
General Homer Cummings in Wash
ington.
Warrants for Others
Warrants also were issued for
Robert G. Brady, alias Bob Brady;
Ed Davis, alias w A. Davis; James
Clark, alias Jim Clark, and Wilbur
Underhill, alias Henry Underhill. all
notorius criminals with national
regulations.
Underhill and Bailey were the
rlngleaders in the gang which CAP
tured Warden Kirk Prather. two
guards and more than a dozen civil
hans in the spectacular break from
the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing
on Memorial day.
Besides the six for whom warrants
were issued, the department of JUS
tlce said Identification orders would
be issued shortly for Harry j. Car
ner, Vernon c. Miller and Bernard
Phillips.
Machine Gunner Identified
Miller, a former sheriff and ex-
convict in North Dakota. was the
man who handled the machine gun
which shot down the four officers
and Nash, according to T. j
Higgins. detective chief here.
Higgins said Miller was accom-.
panied by William Weissman, a
gangster suspected of crimes in
many cities. WeiSsman was not
mentioned in the Washington or
ders, however.
This omission led to the opinion
here that the federal agents and
city police were working separately
on the case.
The Washington orders also
omitted any word of Mrs. E. B
Conner of Hot Springs, Ark, and
Herb Farmer of Joplin, Mo. who
according to Chief Higgins, engaged
in a series of telephone calls that
enabled the officers to connect
Miller with the crime.
Desperate Killers Involved
The men named in todays orders
are mostly desperate killers, all
capable of planning or executing a
wholesale killing such as the one
which took the lives of William j
Caffrey, federal agent; w. j
GroomS and Frank Hermanson, city
detectives; Otto Reed, police chief
at McAleSter, Okla, and Nash.
Nash, Bailey, Underhill and Mil
Ter were all connected with the
same gang. Crimes charges against
| them include a bank robbery at Ft
Scott Kan, for which Bailey was
sentenced to prison, and the $2,000,-
900 holdup of a bank at Lincoln
| Neb.
Pretty Boy" Floyd is as ruthless
a killer as ever worked in the mid
die west, his activities rivaling those
of Jesse James, the HINES boys, or
the Al Spencer gang.
Doubt Floyd's Guilt
City police. however, hesitated to
believe Floyd was in the station
massacre, despite the fact that Mrs
Lottie West, agent of the Travellers
Aid Bureau. said she saw him at
her desk few minutes before the
killing, and that the massacre &C.
Cured only few hours after Floyd
released a Missouri sheriff and an
| insurance man whom he had kid
mapped. Floyd was only few miles
from the city when last seen.
Floyd, according to police here
and in Oklahoma. shoots to kill
when he is cornered, but not other
wise.