Evening star., 1934-10-23
HOOVER SPURNED
FLOYD'S OFFERS.
Gangster Reported to Have
Suggested Surrender
for Immunity.
BY REX COLLIER.

Realizing that his capture by the
Government was inevitable, Charles
Pretty Boy" Floyd, Just few weeks
before his fatal shooting by Justice
agents, made the fourth Of series of
proposals to surrender in return for a
promise of immunity from execution.
All Floyd's overtures, made dis
creetly through friends, were rejected
fatty by J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the Justice Departments Division Of
Investigation.
He killed one Of our men and he
must take the consequences. More
over, we don't deal with gangSterS."
This, in substance, was the answer
which Hoover sent back to the man
| whom Hoover's agents had identified
as one of the three trigger men" who
slaughtered Special Agent Raymond
Caffrey, three other officers and their
prisoner. Frank Nash, in front of the
Kansas City Union Station in July,
1888.
In State Of Desperation.
The insistence with which Floyd re-
| peated his propositions" and the way
in which he elaborated on concessions
| involved in them, convinced Hoover
that the long hunted killer was des-
perate.
Floyd had learned he had been def
nitely identified as one of the machine
gunners at the station massacre, along
with his lieutenant in crime, Adam
Richetti, now in custody Of Wellsville,
/ Miller slain
months ago by gangland enemies.
The outlaw proposed through inter-
mediaries that in return for his peace
| full surrender to Federal authorities,
the Government guarantee him
against imposition of the death SEN
tence for the murders of which he was
accused.
Justice officials declined today to
divulge the identity of the emissaries
sent by Floyd.
It Is known the Intermediates were
told, each time. that Floyd's sugges-
tions were preposterous The Depart
ment Of Justice let Floyd know they
expected to get him eventually and
they intended to show him no len
iency.
List Is Cleared.
The death of Floyd crossed of the
LIST Of wanted men in the massacre
case, the last publicly posted name OF
actual participants in the slayings.
OF the seven men sought as ring
leaders in the slaughter, all are either
dead or in custody. Here is the list:
John Lazia, Kansas City gangSter-
politician, slain by underworld gun
men who feared he might talk
about the massacre. LaZia is said to
have arranged the killings.
Verne Miller, former Dakota sheriff
and the man who enlisted aid of Floyd
and Richetti as trigger men,; also
slain by gangsters who wished to seal
his lips.
Floyd. killed by Hoover's men yes
terday on a farm near East Liverpool,
Ohio.
Wilbur Undernill, shot and killed in
Oklahoma several months ago.
Harvey Bailey, serving life sentence
in Alcatraz prison for the kidnapping
of Charles F. Urschel.
Richard Galatas, accused of tipping
off Miller and LaZia and aiding in
plans for the Kansas City slayings;
now in Federal custody at Kansas City
Richetti. held in the Wellsville, Ohio,
Jail, pending transfer to Federal Of
flcers.
Sisters Are Sought.
Hoover said today his agents are
seeking a number of persons for aid
ing Floyd in his flight from justice.
Among these friends Of Floyd are
Juanita Beulah Baird and Rose
Baird. sisters, who were with Floyd
and a former companion, Bill The
Killer" Miller, when Floyd shot and
killed an officer at Bowling Green
Ohio, in 1881. The Baird sisters were