Evening star., 1933-09-05
BAILEY UNDER GUNS
IN OKLAHOMA JAIL
Officials Determined Gang
ster Never Again Will Es-
cape With Life.
BY the Associated Press.

Stone walls and steel bars were rein
forced today by keen eyes and ready
machine guns to keep the word OF
Joseph B. keenan,, director Of the Ma
tion's anti-gangster campaign, that
Harvey Bailey, alleged plotter OF des-
perate crimes, would never again escape
Jail with his life.
The steel doors of the Oklahoma
County Jail changed shut behind Bailey
last night scarcely dozen hours after
his startling escape from the county
Jail at Dallas, Tex, by means OF pis-
tol which Bailey said he found IN the
mattress of his bunk.
The result of his daring break, the
only successful one ever made there,
was to hasten his removal to Okla
homa City to face charges of plotting
the kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel.
oil millionaire, for 100000, one Of the
largest ransoms ever paid. The trial
is set for September 18. Bailey prob
ably will be arraigned today or to-
morrow.
Probe Escape.
Meanwhile, authorities at Dallas
launched an investigation OF how
Bailey obtained the pistol with which
he gained his freedom and saws with
which he escaped his solitary cell, en-
abling him to surprise a jailer and
trusty who was bringing his breakfast.
Recaptured at Ardmore, four hours
after forcing his way from the Dallas
Jail and kidnapping Turnkey Nick Tresp.
Bailey, manacled hand and foot, was
brought here by five-car caravan OF
heavily armed officers.
Apprehensive of an attempt to free
Bailey at Ardmore, following tip mem
bers of his gang were awaiting him
east of there, Federal officers Speeded
his removal to Oklahoma City, where
four other alleged members OF the
Urschel kidnap ring, already were held.
The four are Albert Bates, named as
one of the actual kidnapers, and r.
G. Shannon, his wife, and son, Armon,
on whose Paradise, Tex, ranch Urschel
was held for nine days, until the ran
som was paid, and where Bailey later
was captured as he lay asleep, a ma
chine gun under his bed.
Sighted by Sheriff Sam Randolph of
Love County at Marietta, Bailey was
captured by Ardmore officers, who were
advised of his approach by telephone,
after a chase, in which his pursuers
fired three shots, none Of which took
effect.
maue NO resistance.
Although he had a heavy-caliber pis-
tol under his left thigh, Bailey made
no attempt to resist after he wrecked
Tresp's car, while speeding through
Ardmore streets to elude the officers.
Hale Dunn. Ardmore chief of police,
who with Bennett Wallace and Ray
mond Shoemaker, captured Bailey, said
Bailey was as white as paper and he
sort of looked at me with a sickly grin
on his face and his hands flew up in
the air.
An hour before the motorcade set out
for Oklahoma City, Earl Scott, automo-
bile salesman, reported a well-dressed
youth, carrying violin case, stopped
his automobile at the spot where Bailey
was captured and forced him at pistol
point to drive northward on the main
highway.
As another automobile, occupied by
two men, approached from a side road,
Scott said, the stranger waved hand
kerch1ef, ordered him to stop and got
into the other car, which sped north
ward. The report was taken to sub
stantiate the tip that friends of Bailey
were awaiting him.
On BalleyS wrists as he was brought
to Oklahoma City were the blood -fecked
handouts worn by Frank Nash, outlaw
killed at Kansas City along with four
officers, when machine gunners ap-
parently attempted to free him July II.
Bailey is accused in that Staying, the
st. Valentines day massacre of seven
men in Chicago in 1929, and the worlds
largest bank robbery, the 100000
looting of the Lincoln, Nebr, National
Bank & Trust Co., September, 1929.
Given Heavy Sentence.
He was sentenced to 10 to so years
imprisonment in connection with the
$4,000 robbery of a Fort Scott, Kans.,
bank, but escaped from the Kansas State
Prison last Memorial day, with Wilbur
Underhill and nine other desperate con-
victs, after kidnapping the warden.
While in jail, at Dallas, Bailey was
quoted as referring to Charles (Pretty
Boy Floyd, Oklahoma desperate, as
small fry" an incident which was re-
called last night as three men and
woman fled from Enid after a gun bat
tie with officers, leaving letter in their
abandoned car addressed to Bailey. 1t
was unsigned. but gave the impression
1t was written by Floyd.
Taunting Bailey with being in GUS
tody while I'm outside" and scoffing
at tough guys" stealing "a harmless
man." the letter stated:
IT don't carry guns around with me
to impress any one. carry them as
dire necessity. know some day
am going to lose, but when that time
comes, will not throw up my hands
and rely on brains to get me out. I
may be a 'small-time hister' and you the
brains of money, a 100000 tot, still I'm
outside while you probably are rack
ing your enormous brain to beat the
chair
The three men and the woman, re-
ported wounded, wrecked three stolen
automobiles in their mad dash toward
the Kansas border. They last were re-
ported near Alva. Okla, where they
stole an automobile from young
farmer who stopped to help them out
of a ditch.