Evening star., 1934-06-17
MASSACRE Of FIVE
AVENGED BY j. S.
Three Dead, Two Are in
Prison Following Kansas
City Machine Cunning.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, June l6-One year
ago tomorrow machine gunners killed
four officers and their prisoner in the
Union Station plaza.
Scarcely had the echoes of the mur-
derouS rat-tat-tat died away than
Edgar Hoover. chief of the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation, set his men
TO work on the case.
I'VE never stop until We get our
men if it takes ages to accomplish it, "
he said.
Three Dead, Two in Prison.
The Government has piled up this
formidable record in the intervening
~ months:
Three dead
Two in prison for life.
Six arrested and released under
bond.
Verne c. Miller, identified by the
Government as the chief killer. was
found slain near Detroit last Novem-
Der 29, his. body trussed up jack-knife
fashion. He was the victim of his
own gangster world Officers believe
that gangsters reasoned if they got
rid OF Miller 1t would put a stop to
the widespread Federal search which
might endanger them.
Bob (Big Boy Brady and Wilbur
Underhill, two of the convicts who
fled the Kansas Penitentiary Memorial
day, 1888, and believed by authorities
to have been in the gang at the Union
Station, were wounded fatally by posse
bullets. Underhill at Shawnee, Okla
Brady near Paola, Kans.
Harvey Bailey, a friend of Frank
Nash, the gangster prisoner who was
killed with the officers at the Union
Station, now is serving a life term
at the Leavenworth Federal Peni-
tentiary as one Of the kidnapers OF
Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil mil
lionaire. Bailey, another of the con-
v1cts in the Memorial day break, was
identified as the man who limped to
the information window in the Union
Station that fatal June day and asked
when the train would arrive from Fort
Smith. Ark. on which Nash was in
the custody of officers. Nash had
escaped from Leavenworth and was
being returned to prison after his
arrest In Hot Springs, Ark.
Given IL Life Terms.
Ed Davis, sought for questioning in
the station killings, was sentenced re.
Gently in California to IL life terms
TOR robberies.
Mr.. and Mrs Herb Farmer Of Jop-
lin. Mrs. Mary Nash, widow of the
slain gangSter; Mrs. Louise Connor
Fort Smith, Ark; Louis Stacci, Chi
cago road house operator, and Fritz
INFLOW Of Kansas City. all indicted in
the station case on charges of con-
spiracy to obstrlict justice, have been
arrested and released on bond.
E. James Clark, still another in the
Memorial day prison break; Charles
pretty Boy) Floyd, the Oklahoma
outlaw, and Richard Galatas, Hot
Springs, are sought as suspected par
ticipants in the station plot
Those killed at the station in addi-
ton to Nash were: Raymond j. Caf-
frey, Federal agent: Otto Reed, Nc
Alester, Okla, chief of police; Frank
Hermanson and w. J. Grooms, Kansas
City police detectives.
Agents Critically Wounded.
Federal Agent Frank ]. Lackey was
dangerously wounded but has since
recovered. and Reed Vetterli. agent in
charge of the Kansas City detail, was
also wounded.
Authorities believe >the gangsters
were attempting to free Nash, but
killed him accidentally, being misled
perhaps by the fact that he was Hesr-
ing a toupee and that he was seated
in the front rather than the back of
the motor car that was to take him
to Leayenworth.