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- 2 Mig a et re “OLS. Gato toc vase . 1 syne me. SL the ad BE OS ram fo ES ‘quest oat Phe Whites Front’ ae ": o "Poo Beil was parety owned and operated. vy Bubject Mohard Tallman ‘Daletess: CEN vey ;:., Jp apprehending Nash the Agents took him ine hurried and ‘wieerenonious manner; ek 3 : due to the fact that the escaped prisoner was strongly entrenched with’ thes: AEX © - local Police Department at Hot Springs, ‘Tmuediately after epprebonding Rie Ae OEY -“those Agents and Officer Reed drove et a high rate of speed with the prisoter s "5. | from Hot Springs, Arkansas, toward Fts Suith, Arkansas, proceeding by wey.? 2 of Benton and Little Rock, Arkansaes They were stopped by a group of officers 4 - at Benton, who aie that they had been telephonically adyiee¢ that_e mas af ae beon kidnapeds Ths Agente identified themselves and proceededs . They mee , stopped at Little Book, arkansas, by officers, sho informed’ then ‘giso. thet ‘they *> had Deen notified telephonically that a man dad: deen kidnaped, after identitp~ ae thonselves the Agents, with the prisoner, accompanied by Mr» Reed were 22277: sagt eacorted to the olty limits, and having inquired the roed to ‘Joplin, Missou . hich ds the same highway out of Little Book ‘that leads to Fés Smith, tho Agents proceeded to Fort Suith, Arkansas, At Fort Smith, Arkenses, they :; ". communicated with Special agent in Charge Ry He Colvin, Division of Inveotign: “= ' $Lony Uy Se Department of Justice, Oklahom City, ani were instructed by his esti "that authority had been received through Mrs J, Eagar Hoover, Director of Spe ia i" Division of Investigation, Use 8s Department of. Justices, pursuant $6 {neta 2b: vy tons of the Attorney Generel of the United States, for them to transport the 4, "yw prisoner to Kansas City, Missouri, in order that he be resurned by thep-40:} 2s che . - a the United States Penitentiary et Leavenvorth, Kaneass They vers 0100 euthor set! % © have Mre Otto Reed, Chief of Police of McAlester, Cklehom, accompany. t! 7S “uf asourt, and arrived af Eanses City et the union reilrced etation on the”. in 1 jeu, morning of June 17, 1955, aa thoy had left Fort Suith.s Upon their prrival. ' fee - aan Kaneas City they wore joined at the train by Specie) Agent in Charge Bo. kell | Rae: ae ae ae “Votterli,. of the Diviaion of: Investigation, Kansas City, “Migsourt,” pet iy: a ity” by Special Agent " paynond Je ‘Caffrey, of ‘thie Divieion,' at: ‘Paneas city; fe Wen 6 sf Eolize Officers Grooms end ‘Hermanson of the Kansas Gity; ‘Migeourd Poliss Departs’ 2 wt, : Dments which Agents and officers hed met the train for the purpose “ot assieting: 3: “qa guarding the prisones and’ transporting hia to Leavenworth, Kansas : _mbons seehe =. 9420 Se, June 17, 1908S, while the Agents and other officers sere preparing’ sarge ', @acort prisoner Nash from the Union Station at Kanses City to Leavenworth, Kansas," '" by auto, @ group of assassine attacked the officers sith machine gun fire ang / ae killed Specie] agent Raymond J, Caffrey, Chief of Police Otto Reed, and Police : Sah Officers Groome and Hermanson, They also seriously wounded Special Agent F, Je Lackey, and elightly wounded Special dgent in Charge Re Be Vetterli. Prisoner | Hash was also killed by @ machine gun bullet from one of the weapons of the - ; aesaseines Investigation developed immediately after the massacre show thet an _long distence telephone calla had been made from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to various pointe tmedieveay | after the erprebeneton ¢ of Fabs eng these 106 Atetance. of calle a