Evening star., 1934-04-22
THREE MISSOURI
K|DNAPERS HELD
One Caught in Stolen Car
With Cabtive-PoIice.
man Abducted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 21-Three
desperadoes who terrorized West
Central Missouri-kidnaping q State
highway patrolman and two others in
an effort to escape the law-were in
custody here tonight.
The alleged leader Of the trio was
captured today near Higginsville. MO,
as he was fleeing in a stolen motor
car with Victor Kreuzenstein Of Bill
lingsville, Mo, 19-year-old minister's
son, as his captive.
H. H. Holt, State highway patrol
man, and Herbert Mock, Higginsville
constable. forced the surrender. The
kidnapped youth was unharmed. The
prisoner gave his name as Arthur
Voueht, %, but officials identified him
as Clyde Cornett, alias Coglett.
CrawIs Through window.
Cornett crawled through a window
of the home of the Rev G. B. Kreu-
zenstein, Evangelical minister of Bill
ingsWlle, at o'clock this morning,
waited until the family awakened,
and, flourishing a revolver, forced
Mrs. Kreuzenstein to prepare break
fast for him.
Then, taking SIS from the minister,
he compelled Victor Kreuzenstein to
drive him away in the family motor
car The alarm was given to State
highway patrolmen and Holt and Mock
stopped the car near Higginsville.
The officers covered Cornett with
their guns. He dropped revolver he
had taken from State Highway Pa
trolman Chester R. Oliver. who was
abducted Thursday afternoon when
he sought to question Cornett and his
two companions, Virgil Marks of
Springfield, Mo, and James E. Dixon,
Joplin, Mo.
Left Officer Bound.
Marks and Dixon were captured
Thursday night at Boonville. Mo. The
trio had left Patrolman Oliver and
B. T. Mccullough, a filling station
operator. trussed up in school house
near Syracuse, Mo.
Oliver encountered the men while
they were repairing a tire on q car
which police said had been stolen
from Grand Island. Nebr. They got
the drop on him and later kidnapped
the filling station owner while pur-
sued by other members of the high
way patrol
Officers said the men confessed they
planned to rob banks at Buffalo, Mo,
and Raymond, Nebr Marks had been
sought for a $500 tire robbery at
Springfield, Mo, last December. Cor
nett said his home was in Oregon and
he had been in Missouri only a few
days.
Wanted TO Shoot.
While Patrolman Oliver was a cap
tive OF the men on wild ride through
Central Missouri, Cornett boasted that
he was Clyde Barrow, notorious
Southwestern killer. Marks and Dix
on told officers they had difficulty in
dissuading Cornett from shooting
Oliver
Cornett escaped when his compan-
ions were captured Thursday night
and slept in a barn near Boonville,
going to Billingsville last night.
Young Kreuzenstein related the
story of his abduction.
This man, who told me his name
was Corglett, was in the kitchen of
our home this morning when my
father entered" he said.
He had a pistol and threatened
to use it unless We prepared him some
food and promised to take him to
Kansas City in our car. My mother
and l hurried about getting some
breakfast while Corglett waited
Demanded Money.
"In a few minutes the man said he
wanted money. My father got SIS.
part of which was church money. and
gave 1t to him. Corglett was nervous.
but when We got into the car and
started for Kansas City he put the
pistol away and did not take 1t out
again during the drive.
"Corglett had disconnected our
phone, but my father ran across the
street to a little store as soon as we
left and notified the highway patrol
office at Boonville.
While I drove along, Corglett ex-
planned that he had been trying to 60
straight recently. 1t struck me that
he had been in difficulty with the po-
lice before. He said he hadn't had
much chance to earn an honest liv-
ing. He also said he would not harm
me and that I could return home In
my car as soon as We got to Kansas
City.
"Corglett made no attempt to use
his gun when we were halted The
two officers had guns trained on us
both. and for an instant I thought
there would be shooting. However,