Slaying Baffles Police In Kansas City Mystery
Police seek Peter McKay killer after the carpenter was found shot three times in a weed patch near U.S. 50 and the Blue River. His broken window and torn vest suggest a struggle, with clues pointing to a possible theft and a death tied to his will naming church and school beneficiaries.
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Kansas City
Peter McKay
U.S. No. 50
Blue River
Here
McKay
Fortyfourth
Montgall
Joan McKay
Francis Savier
la Salle Academy
Rockhurst College
Little Sisters of the Poor
Attempted Kidnap and Extort Plot Nets Two Greeks in Kansas City
Leon Brown and Frank Nichols, both Greek, are jailed in Kansas City over an alleged plan to kidnap and extort $20,000 from Greek waiter Stephen Exarchos, also known as Stephen Stevens. Exarchos reported being abducted to a farmhouse in Jackson County, threatened with torture, and released after promising to pay $2,000. A dummy DJ package led to Nichols’s arrest at his restaurant, implicating Brown. Nichols is said to be Gus Nichols’s brother, a Kansas City police figure. Exarchos works at the Kane Sas City Club.
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Kansas City
Leon Brown
Frank Nichols
T Kidnay
Stephen Exarchos
Exarcos
Stephen Stevens
Thursdey
Jackson County
Exarchos
Nichols
Brown
Gus Nichols
Minnesota State Penitentiary
Kane Sas
Probe into Sedalia Bank Seeks State Findings
In Sedalia Missouri June 21 AP a state bank examiner Ige¢ A Fruend opened an inquiry into Union Savings Bank Fast Sedalia after directors reported closing the bank pending investigation. Executive vice president Richard P Asbury age 65 shot himself yesterday a coroner’s jury ruled suicide. He was alone in the bank and relatives arrived to arrange funeral services and a family reunion planned for the weekend.
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Sedalia
Ige
A. Fruend
Union Savings Bank
Fast Sedalia
Richard P. Asbury
S. L. Cantley
Asbury
Opinion on Farm Board limits county debt and Farm Bureau Act
County authority to appropriate relies on yearly revenue and two thirds voter assent for indebtedness. Supreme Court discussions cite Book vs Earl and Trask vs Livingston to warn against debts exceeding current year income. Opinion suggests County Court may shorten three year appropriation if funds exist, preserving cash basis.
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Spurs
General Assembly
Jasper County Farm Bureau
Jasper County
S. W
Otto
Supreme Court
Farm Bureau
Book
Earl
Trask
Livingston
Okla Man Studies Mo Highway Methods
J A Ryndak auditor of the Oklahoma Highway Department visits Missouri to study their tabulation and bookkeeping systems with plans to install the Missouri system in Oklahoma. A Kansas delegation is also in town for the same purpose. Missouri's highway organization is praised as a model for efficiency reflected in eight years of road building results.
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J. A. Ryndak
Oklahoma Highway Department
Oklahoma City
Missouri Highway Department
Oklahoma
Kansas Highway Department
Missouri
Missouri Highway Organization
Fictitious Names in Detroit Recall Petition
Police Commissioner Thomas C Wilcox announced a preliminary Detroit check of recall petition signatures showing about 65 percent were fictitious. Mayor Bowles criticized the fraud, while Wilcox pledged to investigate, locate the responsible persons, and prosecute those who swore to the signatures. The petitions were turned over by John Gillespie, the commissioner of public works.
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Detroit
Thomas C. Wilcox
Charles Bowles
Bowles
Wilcox
Police
John Gillespie
Public Works
State Asks Hearing In Warren Gase Case Retrial Sought
Attorney General Stratton Sharter moved the Kansas Supreme Court to rehear and transfer the Warren case en banc after a June reversal. Roscoe F. Warren of Kansas City, accused of shooting John C. Deskin at a Mutual Rocky Mountain Club meeting on October 13, 1924, faces retrial for a third time. Warren, organizer of hunting lodges, protested a resolution to oust him and Deskin. Previous trials: 15 years imprisonment, then death sentence on second trial, reversal prompted by trial errors.
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Stratton Sharter
State Supreme Court
En Banc
Roscoe F. Warren
Kansas City
John C. Deskin
Mutual
Rocky Mountain Club
Division Fhe
Supreme Court
A. M. Meyer
R. F. Walker
Warren
Shob Deskin
Jury verdict for Cooper C. Farmer figure in Missouri suit
In Howard County circuit court a jury after three hours deliberation returned a verdict for George B. Smith a 46 year old Cooper County farmer in a $20 000 damage suit brought by Jake and Rachel Hamilton former tenants of Smith The trial began Thursday in Fayett e Missouri with AP reporting June 21
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Fayette, Mo
Howard County
George B. Smith
Cooper County
Jake
Rachel Hamilton
Smith
Wound marks and confessions shift Segrest trial
Kansas City reports a bank robbery near Ferrerview Missouri where two youths Frank Douglas and Everett McClain held up the Bank of Ferrerview, took 179 dollars, and fled in a car. Douglas was wounded in the left thigh and later confessed after police exposure. McClain initially denied knowing the crime but later disclosed his share of loot. The case ties to broader posttrial tensions, bracelet evidence, and venue moves amid juror shift and costs.
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Kansas City
Ferrerview
Frank Douglas
Everett McClain
RB. J. Clark
Douglas
Elmer Sprague
McLain
Secrest
Miss Anderson
Baumgartner
Memory of a game aids police in two major robberies
Four year old Louise Patterson recalled a game called prisoners used by suspects in the Lake Shore Drive mansion theft of Charles M. Richter and the Lake Forest home of Stewart Templeton. Police linked the boyish memory to the tape bindings and gagging used in the holdups and issued warrants for Ray Levis and three others.
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Chicago
Lake Shore Drive
Charles M. Richter
Lake Forest
Stewart Templeton
Louise Patterson
Kathleen Patterson
Victory
Ray. Miller
Prohibition Probe Budget Set by Senate Panel
President Hoover would get a 50,000 appropriation for a prohibition focused law enforcement commission. A Senate subcommittee approved the amendment, restricting the inquiry to prohibition under the House deficiency bill. The panel’s nine to one vote and remarks by Senator Glass are noted, with possible Senate point of order. Charlies A. Urmich reports from Kansas City as a visitor.
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Washington
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
House
Senate Appropriations
Glass
Virginia
Senate
Baggage handler shot at Union Station in St Louis
Emil Hagen, a baggage handler, was seriously wounded when a firearm in a trunk he was handling discharged. The trunk had just arrived from the west on the Rock Island line. Hagen was struck in the left chest and is expected to recover. Woodford Sheley has taken a job with Master Cleaners in Boonville.
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ST. Louis
Emil Hagen
Union Station
Rock Island
Ex-Gonmigt Held for KC Holdup
Kansas City June 21 William Clifford 23 an ex con was held by police in motion with the 1800 holdup 28 of the Robert E Lee Hotel The arrest followed identification by Neal Bushy night clerk and Jack Glenn bell boy Clifford was released from Missouri State penitentiary May 14 1929 after serving two years for carrying concealed weapons.
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Kansas City
William Clifford
Robert E
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