The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-08-31
Bailey's Arrest Gets One OF Gangs
Big Shots Among Escaped Conyicts
BY SHERMAN .. MeNALLY

OKLAHOMA CITY, August 81.
Half dozen desperate escaped
convicts, part of the band of IL
who escaped from Kansas state
penitentiary last Memorial day.
have left a trail of bloodshed and
terror throughout the southwest.
They have invaded small towns,
cowing citizens with sub-machine
guns. robbing banks and shoot
ing it OUT whenever challenged.
Hideouts Deep In Hills
Reputed hideouts Of those evad-
ing capture so far are deep in
the rugged eastern Oklahoma hill
country, where officers seeking
them for crimes ranging from
motor car theft to murder might
search for weeks without finding
them.
u. S. District Attorney Vande-
.venter at Kansas City said that
Harvey Bailey, ARRESTED recent
81 in Dallas, Texas, was one of
the machine gunners taking part
in the slaughter of four officers
and their prisoner, Frank Nash. in
Kansas City June IL, and that
Wilbur UnderhilI and Verne G.
Miller, a former South Dakota
sheriff, participated.
It was UnderhiIl, youthful des-
perado serving a life term for
numbering a Wichata, Kansas, po-
liceman. who officers said led the
prison break.
Baily A Bank Robber
His right hand man was Bailey,
who helped to seize Kirk Prather,
then warden, and the two guards
used as shields while the convicts
made their mad dash across KAN
sas. Bailey was under sentence
.of 20 to 100 years for bank rob-
berry.
The other three, all convicted
bank robbers, are: Bob big Boy)
Brady, who also escaped from the
Oklahoma penitentiary, serving a
life term in Kansas as an habituaIi
criminal; Ed Davis, escaped Okla
homa convict, serving 90 to 100
years for bank robbery; and Jim
Clark, serving 20 to 100 years for
bank robbery.
Among the major crimes for
which the five are wanted are the
staying of a policeman at Ghetto
pa, Kans., May 81; the robbery Of
a bank at Chelsea, Okla, June Il
the killing Of four officers, includ-
ing federal agent, in front of
the union station in Kansas City
June IL: and the robbery of a
bank at Weir City, Kans., Aug. q.
Gang Friendly To Nash
The Underhill Bailey gang is
sought in the union station slay-,
ings because OF its known friend
ship for Frank Nash, federal CON
Wet whose rescue was attempted
but who also was slain in the
bloody encounter.
On July 26 the five desperados
wrote a letter TO an Oklahoma CITY
newspaper, asserting they had rob-
bed d bankaat Black Rock. Ark.
June Is, and affixing their thumb
prints as evidence that their sig.
natures were genuine. Their pur-
pose, they stated, was to exhonor-
ate several other men accused of
the crime.
Others Accounted For
The other convicts who part;-
eipated in the Memorial day break.
abdueting three women as host
ages, have all been accounted for
Lewis Bechtel and Frank SAWYER
were recaptured in Oklahoma d
few days later. Sawyer after al
pistol battle with officers. Bill
IS Woods and Clifford DopsonI
We're apprehended June 10 near
San Angelo. Tex, and returned to-
the prison.
Kenneth Conn was shot to death
and Avis Payton seriously wound
ct and taken into custody July
"a at Altamont. Kans., when
Isaac McCarty. bank cashier. re-
pulsed their efforts to hold up the
Institution By firing on them from