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| ‘oe Starts is : For or Slayers OF Office Escaped ‘Kansas ‘Con- victs and Pretty | Boy ; Floyd Among Suspects € KANSAS CTY, Mo. july #°CAP). ‘The: Department of Justice Thurs- "day ordered the arrest of Charles “(Pretty Boy} Floyd, Okla! kitler; : five gina Kanona-ovic, Verne ‘c. ormer Huron, S. BD. Sher- ‘$ff, and William Weissmari in connee- “tion with the machine gun aleying of “four officers and their prisoner, Frank _.Nesh, at the Union Station plaza here prune 1... . announcement by Directar of yp Police Reppert that Miller and Weiss- ‘man were known to have had a part iin the slaughter was followed by the 2Un Sete arculars imued by the tes Bureau. of Investiga- ag for the ne, arrest ot Floyd :& &. Hoover, director ‘of the bureau. \| named Harvey Bailey, Wil iid ‘| hill, Ed Davis, James Clark and G. Bredy, who escaped fram the the six men, described them minutely and said they are sought in the mur- der of Otto Reed. chief af police at McAlester, Ok.; William J. Grooms and Frank E, Hermanson, police of- ficers af Kansas City, Mo.:; Raymon J. Caffrey, special agent of the’ Unit- ed States Bureau of Investigation, and their prisoner, Frank Nash, aj Kan- eas City, Mo, ‘June 17, 1838. ; Bailey was tid by ‘police have been a clase friend cf Nash, who was alain in the attempt to effect his es- cape. Bailey. was the feader of the Prison break Memorial Day In which the warden, Kirk Prathar, was kid- naped. He wes identified through a Photograph by a statiod usher as the man who inquired the time of arrival of the tréin bringing Nash from Ar- kansas to Kansas City. - ~The usher said the man limped and carried a cane. Bailey was wounded in-the leg in the prison break. Aman ; answering Bailey's description came to the house where Miller had been living Se nee are the Kulling, po- lice ware ormed. - ey | ied by an officer of a Lincoln, Neb. bank as the jeader, of the group which robbed the institution of about $2,000.000 several years apo. "Underbill, an ‘estaped Oklahoma “| prisoner, was the sleyer of Merlve Cotver, a Wichita, Kan. policeman. Skilled in Use of Arms, ¢ . * Miller, who served,a term as Sheriff at Huron, S. D. was widely known for his skill with firearms. He was wicted of embezzling funds while office and sent to the State peni- entiary. Later he went to St. Paul Weissman is wanted at “Los Angeles the slaying of David Antink, drug pany treasurer, in 1926, and for the killing of John G. G. Finiello, a pro- hibition agent in Elizabeth, . N. Sent. 18, 199, Floyd. who. ‘emerges : from the ‘Osage badlands for a foray. against a bank now and then, is accused of half a dozen murders. Police sey he was in Kansas City the night before the plaza sleyings, A witness to the shoot- ing identified hing as one of the ma- chine gunpers through a photograph. Miller had been living in Kansas: City In a fashionable residential dis- trict where he was Known to neigh- bors as a gentleman of leisure who devoted considerable time to galf. eeu re ea. OETA °. = . ae