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UNE 17, 1933i~ FOUR OFFICERS “AND PRISONER(IMS), for a State to-•f aland i are rltles lie a 1 Di most pay com-com-siib-*80.-The nlgel anyKILLED IN BATTLEDeadly Hail of Bullets Near Main Entrance of Union StationIn Kansas City..ncour-unani-Roose-retaryiy Jn-xperts iposats luionic•re the parley, aching it into recoin-f Hull lenaryAmerl-ictionslateralwithexport■s.rn to Ram eed to garden i. Sec-posals Repre-raem-tition, de theKansas City. Mo.. June 17. (INS) — Four officers and a prisoner were killed and another officer wan wounded here to-day when the officers engaged in a battle with gunmen at the union station.The officers were returning Prisoner Frank Nash, an escaped convict ! from Leavenworth Penitentiary, who was captured yesterday near Me-Airs ter. Oklahoma.As the officers, who had been met. by city detectives, emerged from the train, they were met by a gang of gunmen.Raymond J. Caffrey. of the department of justice opened Are with his revolver.The bandits returned the fire.The station was crowded with the early morning rush of traffic and It was impossible to learn the number of gunmen who attempted to rescue Nash.Moro than one hundred shots were fired and as the gunmen fled they left four police officers killed, one department of justice man probably fatally wounded and the escaped convict dead.Those killed were:Frank Nash, ex-convict.Raymond J. Caffrey. United States department of justice.Chief of Police . Ott Reed, of Mc-Alester, Oklahoma.. .••••'. Frank Hermauson, Kansas City detective.Red” Grooms. Kansas City detective.Another local department of justice operative, R. E. Veterll, was wounded in the gun battle and rushed to a hospital.i Waller Johnson, famous pitcner aim former manager of the WashingtonJ raged from gation a cur-is just'. the are in andin ap-effect. red to essioa Distrain* in favor-Waab-placed on ofweek.sWli-■sident 94 Of it Id a I court NtrolL libeled orjo4. ofIti,—The •»r*M Kr «f iru lo formerUetr flier hi oi.sly i went i of hri Tiiniup j Keillor j rluiuir, repcrte spine. Field, iSenators, who is now piloting the Cleveland Indians, sits in the grandstand with Billy Evans (left), Indians’ general manager, as they look over the team. “Big Train promises some changes.SHERIFF IN WEST GIVEN FREEDOM BY HIS ABDUCTORSKIDNAPERS HOLD WESTERN MAN FOR IMMENSE RANSOMBolivar. Mo.. June 17. (IMS).—Sheriff Jack Killlngsworth, of Polk county, kidnaped by Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, notorious desperado, returned here early today after a wild 500-mile ride at the point of a machinegun.Killlngsworth said that Floyd and an accomplice. Adam Ricclietti. threatened him with death If he disclosed details of the abduction. The sheriff was reluctant to describe his abduction.The sheriff was driven 600 miles in a stolen automobile before be was finally released at Lee summit fifteen miles from here, at 11:00 o'clock last night.Ife immediately telephoned E. W. Bitxer, an employe at the garage here where the sheriff was kidnaped yesterday, asking Bitter to meet him at Clinton. Missouri. Bitter drove to Clinton and returned the officer here.Authorities were Informed that the gunmen had abducted an elderly coaple near Deepwater in their flight. There they abandoned one automobile and commandeered another.Rewards totaling $€.000 have been posted for the capture of Floyd dead or alive. He is accused or bank robberies and murder In Oklahoma. Missouri and Ohio.M il RELIC,Fremont. Ohio. June 17.—A cannon, lusty from age. Micved to have l«vn I nsrd l.r the British in the War of 1*1?. 'has just been dlsrovered on Brady's Island. North of this city. The cannon. 1 doiiMfcss. was tivd in the attack on Ft. Slo|*ben.lt;*in.FISHING POOI.Ads. Ohio. June 17.—-The mnnkips!St. Paul, Minn., Juno 17. # (INS).— William Hamm. Jr.. 39-year-old millionaire brewer and scion of one of St. Paul’s oldest families, was being held to-day by kidnapers who have threatened to kill their captive unless $100,000 ransom Is paid.Warning that they ara dealing with a veteran kidnaping gang of the Northwest was served on authorities when a taxi-cab driver who 'delivered the. ransom note made an identification of the mn who engaged, him for the mission.Police withheld news of the abduction, which occurred Thursday, until late last night in the hope of trapping the kidnapers. Efforts to contact the gang had proved futile, however.Although police were without definite information as to where Hamm was seized, it is believed that he fell into the hands of the kidnapers while walking from his offlco to the Hamm residence.A son of the late William Hamm, St. Paul capitalist, the abduction victim is president and treasurer of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, of St. Paul. He likewise directs extensive realty properties anil is promiment in St. Paul social and industrial circles.FLASHES OF NEWS FOREIGN FIELDSLondon. June 17. (IMS).—An intensifying search for the mysterious germ tiiat causes foot-and-mouth disease, the dread of farmers. Is being carried on by scientists of the world.The germ is so small that the most powerful microscope cannot see It. yet Is docs damage each year that can be reckoned in many millions of dollars.Experiments are now in' progress at the London Royal Veterinary College which will ultimately lead to the discovery of a serum to counteract the disease.Paris. June 17. (IMS)-—Jenny Dolly, member o: the famous Dolly sisters dancing team, gravely injured In an automobile accident, underwent a delicate plastic surgery operation today. Physicians reported her doing well. Fears liad been expressed Miss Dolly would lie permanently disfigured.SI7H1EM.Y STRICKEN.Fremont. Ohio. June 17.—Stanley Kurtz, aged 30 year*, snh-s manager of llie Gordon Luml«er Company, died sialikfjly.MFK ROBBER
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