The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-22
BOY ISSHOT
IN GUN BATTLE BUT
ESCAPES TO WOODS
Captured Confederate Is Beinl
Questioned on Kansas
City Massacre
MURDER WARRANTS ISSUED
Purvis Expresses Belief Desper.
ado Is Dead Of Wounds;
Hunt Continues

Wellsville, o., Oct. 22-R-Char.
les Pretty Boy" Floyd, desperate
western gunman, seemingly had made
one of his characteristic disappear
ances Monday as posse Of heavily
armed officers and citizens tramped
through the neighboring woods look
ing for him.
In the village Jail here. officers re.
sumed their questioning of Adam
Richetti. confederate of Floyd who
was captured after a gun fight Sat-
urday from which Floyd escaped.
Believed to be seriously wounded
Floyd entered the woods not far from
Wellsville and local officers said there
was little likelihood that he had es-
capped this section. The posse, how
ever. was unable to locate or pick ur
his trail.
Melvin Purvis, head investigator
for the department Of justice in Chi
cago, Monday expressed his belief
that Floyd was dead or dying in the
woods where he took refuge.
Coal Digger Sees Floyd
Contradicting these statements o.
the seriousness of Floyd,s wounds was
the word of coal digger, David Ram.
sure, that he had seen q man re-
sembling Floyd walk out Of the woods
and attempt to get ride on the bord-
ering road.
Purvis waited Monday for murde.
warrants from Kansa City to serve on
Richetti On arrival here by plane,
Puryis asked for immediate custody
of Richetti, but Chief J. H. Fultz, his
captor, refused to turn over the pris-
oner. Both Floyd and Richetti are
wanted by the law as trigger-men in
the Kansas City Union Station mas
sacre OF five men In June, 1888.
Should Floyd be captured alive.
court fight over his custody was seen
as q possibility, as there IS murder
indictment pending against him IN
Ohio.
Three years ago in April, Floyd and
Billy the Killer" Miller staged . spec
tacular gun battle In Bowling Green.
O., fatally wounding Patrolman Ralph
Cashier. Miller was killed. but Floyd
escaped.
K1C0ett x248O VIOy
In his heavily-guarded cell RichetN
talked freely, but denied that Floyd
was with him Saturday.
He denied participating II thu
Kansas City crime.
Chief Fultz had received . cal
that two suspicious-looking mer
we're lying in q ditch beside the car.
With two citizens, he went to the
point described.
"Oh, he's q policeman" one Of ths
men said finally, ''let him have It"
Both opened fire, then ran. Floye
made the road and stopped small
car.
Wounded in the ankle, Chief Fultz
took Richetti to jail and formed
posse.
Floyd changed to the larger car Of
james H. Baum, but police IN the
neighboring city Of Lisbon blocked
his way, at bridge. Turning back
to Wellsville, he encountered the
posse gathered by Chief Fultz ano
stopped the car.
Baum, at Fqoyd's orders, stepped
out Of the car and held up his hands.
The gunman opened fire from the
rear window and then ran into the
woods. Police have not found his
trail since that time.
Wanted for Jury Probe
The capture Of Adam Richetti, com
panion Of Charles pretty Boy Floyd,
southwest outlaw. set Kansas City
legal machinery in motion to bring the
man before q federal grand jury
which Monday started an investiga-
ton Of the Union station murders
here In June. 1888.
Richetti and Floyd have been named
by the government as two Of the
three gunner who Embossed . stream
OF death which felled four officers
and their federal prisoner IN the Un.
ion station Sayings.
r. B. Nathan, special agent IN
charge Of the bureau OF investigation
here, said a formal charge would be
placed against the 32-year-od Richet-
Il 50 he could be brought here to ap-
pear before the grand jury.
The third accused killer is Verne G
Miller, former South Dakota sheriff
who later was found slain near De-
troit.