The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-16
KIDNAPERS FLEE
HUGE NET LAID
BY 300 POLICE
Escape Before Hail of
Bullets as Trap
Closes in.
BIZ Unifed Press

By United Press
CHICAGO. Aug. 1.-two mem
bers of KIDNAPPING gang who easily
side-stepped the most elaborate traI
ever laid. were hunted by hundred:
OF chagrined officers today.
Authorities believed them to bt
members Of a kidnapping gang leo
by Roger Tuohy. Chicago racketeer
and Harvey Bailey. alleged kidnaper
OF Charles F. Urschel. Oklahoma
City millionaire. Bailey was arrested
near Larras Saturday.
More than three hundred federal
agents and Chicago police. partici-
pated in the trap. using machine
guns and airplanes.
Planned Coup for Days
In the face of this force, the
men drove boldly into the open,
grabbed spurious package they be-
lieved contained $4,000 as addi-
tional ransom from John Jake the
BARBER Factor, then skillfully out
diStanced their pursuers.
Scores of acres of forest land west
of Chicago were beat over by officers
in frantic effort TO capture the
men.
Factor. who was freed after pay
ment of $4,000. had been maneu-
vering for the arrest of his abductors
both through underworld connec-
tons and the police.
Recently he received a demand
for the additional $4,000.
The abductors directed that the
money be brought to an intersec-
ton near Western Springs, suburb
of Chicago.
Cop Acts as Messenger
Patrolman Frank McKenna, youth
ful appearing. donned a messenger
boys uniform. He rode to the des-
ignated spot in a taxicab, which
Sergeant John Meyers was driving
Meyers was armed with a machine
gun.
Police squads were sent to every
intersection around. Lieutenants
Barry and McNaughton, armed with
machine gun cruised overhead in
an army plane
AS McKenna and Meyers ap-
preached a barbecue stand. they
observed a small sedan following
them.
Meyers. according to previous ar
ranged plans, stepped out and
started polishing the hood of his
car.
One kidnaper came from the
other car and opened a door of the
cab. McKenna gave him the pack
age.
Plane Dives on Car
Meyers waved his dust rag to the
airplane. The plane immediately
dove sharply over the gangsters'
car.
This signaled waiting squad cars
that the transfer had been made
A second plane joined the chase.
Seem gthat the kidnapers would
outdistance the slower taxicab. Nc
Kenna fired volley from his ma
chine gun. The plane dove down
and sent burst of shots at the flee
ing gangsters.
At Twenty-second street the
gangsters ran into a blockade of
police. In an Instant, they twisted
about and started retracing their
course with squad cars in pursuit.
Car Is Abandoned
AT a forest preserve on the Mann
helm road. tire bic won't. They
abandoned the car. and disappeared
into the woods. each taking a diff
ferent direction.
One man went to the farmhouse
OF John landau, near Westchester.
My wife just caught me with an
other mans wife in the forest pre-
serve" he told landau. I'll pay vol
well if you drive me home before
she gets there"
landau took him to haywood
where he boarded an eastbounc
street car and disappeared.
Armed with machine guns, hand
grenades and tear gas bombs, two
squads of federal agents, accom-
panied by police, set out today on
their second major drive against
kidnapers within twenty-four hours
Vexed at the escape of the two
suspects Tuesday. the officers were
turned to the summer vacation land
of southern Wisconsin for another
raid.
The hideout of the remnants OF
the notorious Roger TouhY gang