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= oe ‘O'CONOR, POLICE! - CONFERRING ON SAMMONS MOVE State’s Attorney “Uncer- tain If City’s Charge Has Priority GANGSTER FACES TWO QUIZZES IN MISSOURI Is Last Of Trio Wanted Here For $47,000 Son- neborn Robbery The further adventures of James _ ur) Sammons, whose reputation as @ Capone machine gunner won him position No. T on Chicago's list of pub- ic enemies soon after be had been in-- dicted here for participetion in the! Sonneborn pay-roll robbery seven yesrs) ago, todey rested an his standing with’ police and Federal wuthorities in Kan-| was City. ¢ Under errest in Kansas City for ques-! Honing about the murder of four off-' cera and Frank Nash last June 17 dur-' ing an attempt to rescve Nash, 0 train wobber, Sammons wes acheduled for « session with the Federal Bureau ef Investigation. And it vas posible, that developments out there would de- a pre ym ep eet ee cee ee irre oe a coe eae ee ee ee ae ee ee Pade Promless Fight “Of course we want Semmons if We can get him,” State's Attorney Herbert R. O’Conor sald today. “We haven't given up our quest for him atall. We have bad a detalner against him im Chicego ever since 18%. And sob we have informed Kansas City au- thoritles that we «lll want him” Sammons has been on the Baltimore Police Department's wanted list ever since the pay-roll robbery on October 1, 1528, when #1,000 was taken by three bandits from employes of the One Dead, Ona in Prison - One af the bandits, John Danko, Jeter was found dead from s bullet” ‘wound in an‘ sutomobile shandoned by the trio. A second member of the gang. Willie Niemoth, wes arrested in Chi- engo after considersble jockeying on the ‘part of Chicago police, brought tack to Baltimore, and is now serving a ten-year sentence for the robbery tn the Maryland Penitentiary. “ Meanwhile Sammons has been play: | tog patty-cake with the Chicago police! Bh of and on for almost seven years.’ . Bome times he was unde; arrest and gometimes he whm't He dropped out af sight last September, when hea was samed a6 8 suspect in a bombing, ap- parently directed at a judge's home, which maimed @ youth end e young When be frst saw the @potbes. . : Much Wanted Here : On the deck of Chief Lomector tera here today lay a telegram from Sherif Thomas B. Bech, of Kanms Ci. tread: - |; ae (Fur) “Bermmens in eus- fody here Understand wanted by department ou pey-roll rob- dery and murder, Answer.” - a ocr An answer to the effect that Bam- mons is very much wanted by the Polic Hs a Hi fia ie City press tches indl- ented, however, that even if authori- ties there were satisfied that Sammons hed not been implicated in the gun batiie to free Nazh, the State of Iili- nols " * now Moving Van Arrest Cius . Sammons wes arrested in a Kansas City house to which Federal — ; # is the hou. *_ : - Sammone’ alr Dyed Black Mr. Ma-hay . re. Tolaon Oe ee wine Fie, Beweray ii:, Olorg, . 2-2 1918: 5-3) TZ _.