The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-23
MASSACRE OF
five LAID TO
DOUBLE-CROSS
Outlaw Frank Nash Slain
Because He Robbed Pal,
Left Him in lurCh.
VICTIM GETS REVENGE
DeSpoiIed Convict FIeeS
Prison, Gathers Gang for
Kansas City Killing.

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KANSAS CITY. Mo. June %
Frank Nash was put on the spot
because he double-crossed a pal. it
was believed today by city detec-
tives, trying to trail the machine
gunners who killed Nash. an es-
capped convict, and four peace Off
GERS in the union station massacre
here last Saturya.
Harvey Bailey. one of the eleven
convicts who escaped from the Kan
Sas prison on Memorial day. kid
mapping the warden, two guards and
more than a dozen civilians in their
flight, was linked more closely with
the wholesale killing by new evil
derce
Bailey and Nash had been pals.
They had been on several big Jobs
together, and lived together in an
expensive hotel while they spent the
loot from their pillaginC, it was
learned.
Then Bailey was arrested on a
golf course here, while playing with
Francis Heating and Thomas
Nash Makes Escape
What police did not know then.
but found out later, was that Nash
was playing right behind them. He
saw his friends arrested, but calmly
played out his game.
Then, while the officers quizzed
Bailey, Holden and Heating, the
bank bandit Nash jumped into his
automobile, raced to the hotel where
the men were living, and escaped
with some $4,000 of Bailey's money.
part of it loot from the holdup of
the Citizens National bank of Ft.
Scott, Kan, according to informa-
ton just made public by police.
That was all right with Bailey. He
confidently expected that the money
would be used to hire an attorney
who could help him fight the
charge of robbing the Fl. Scott
bank.
Attorney Is Slain
But he was met with the double
cross, police now say. Nash disap-
peared, taking the money. The
hlgh-priced lawyer whom Bailey ex-
pected to go from Kansas City to
defend him, did not appear. An at
torney hired on his behalf in Tulsa.
Okla, was slain on lonely country
highway.
Bailey was convicted and sent to
prison. Hr'lf @sft
Then he escaped, less than two
weeks before federal investigators
arrested Nash in Hot Springs, Ark.
How the killers got word from
Hot Springs that Nash had been
arrested and would walk out of the
Union station here after arriving on
the a. m. train, has not been
learned. But the word arrived. and
the Union station literally was sur
rounded by members of the mob"
intent on seeing that Nash never
reached the safety of a prison cell.
Moved Down by Gang
AS Nash and his escort left the
front door of the station and en-
tered a waiting motor car, bullets
nailed at them from machine guns.
Nash and four officers were killed,
and another officer wounded.
If they had left by any other door.
the result would have been the
same, police believe.
Another band of gunner waited
at the side door of the station, it
was learned
Another group waited near the
gates of the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth, in case Nash got
through here alive.
AS these facts were unfolding be-
fore the intensive prying of the po-
lice, the investigators were more and
more inclined to free Charles (Pret-
ty Boy Floyd from suspicion in the
case. They are more firmly con-
vinced that his postcard, mailed
from Springfield and declaring that
he was not present, was genuine and
truthful.