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FRANK NASH AND: ‘(FOUR OFFICERS: Gun Baitie Staged at the’ Union Station Early. | This Morning: : ONE MAN WOUNDED. Officers Were Returning’ Nash, a ‘Former Spencer. j Gang Member, ‘to Prizon : "(By fhe Aamociated Prem) KANSAS CITY, June 11.—Unéer- world machine gunners abot and | killed four officers and their pris- oners, Frank Nash, Oxlahoma train robber, in front- of the Union Stas. tion here today. One federal officer was seriously’ Wounded. ' Officials differed on whether the attack was an attempt to frée Nash, who was being returned to the Lear- enworth federal penitentlary from which he had escaped, or whether’ 'the main purpose of the gangsters: ‘was to kill the outlaw. Og TE The Killers, believed to number: . I thetr sub machine gimas barking af, ' ter the shooting. ‘ | FF. J. Lackey, the “wounded officer. told police he had been traliing _ | Nash for. three years.‘ © °° 0 tor “When we gathered at the car gnd. had got Nash into the front seat,” ‘] he said, “two men stepped out trenr between ears parked south of te gorernment armed car, I believe; elther with shotguns or "riftes, Fie. jot believe they bad « machine gun, ‘: “One of them said ‘let's let thei have it,’ and before any of the of- | Tigets could get their fire arms, the shooting began. There were abot- guns and aidn't getat theme but we couldn*t vt Bet at shen.” (By ‘the Amcciatad Pre} . aS “KANSAS CITY, June 17— Four, | officers were slain by maching fon: fire and another was wounded- da _ Pfront of the Union Station here fo-| ‘}day by gunmen who apparepily sought to effect the release of Frang rd - SHOT TO DEATH | ; the officers ghd their prisoner ware. .{ boarding just south of the ) east door = te - | some vtticers exprossed: the -beltef Fal four, fled in an automobile with | tentiary at Leavenworth in 1980. =... ; chief of the United States burean of ‘} Nash, Okianoma’mau trata’ ee -| being retarned to Leavenworth 26d, ce et [eral prison, “** Moe Tarll. Nasb, one of the “few-wurvivi” members of the Al Spencer gang of train robbers, also died in the hail; of bullets, Dacre y . The. killers’ ‘fled in one oF moze, i automobiles after pouring # murd- booth te erous fire ite a parked car ‘a of the station, baa . The dead: web ; ot Frank Nash, “the federal ‘ooo. Cot Wet: being returned t to Lemyess* Ji ee the bureau of investigation, ~ * W.-J. “Red”. Grooms,. ctty ee tective of Kansas City. - Frank Hermanson,’ "ay eee), tive of Kansas City. ; Otto Reed, chief of. police | Mcalester, Okla, “°=:) ; . - ‘The wounded: Co 7 . eral barca of threstightion:. Boe ye --Aosounts differed as 40 the aims Dee ber of men in the killers’ party.Qnq oo! . eye witness eaid be saw onty - two me ~._ Serr o Meee ee came from two automobites; ‘and H four men were involved. . r Arrived With Nash Early Today = . Frank Smith, investigator tor the. | department of justices: Lackey and . Reed arrived at the station shortly : after 7 a. m. with Nash, captared - | resterday ‘in Hot Springs, ark. - Sat Nash escaped from the federal peni-. . - They were met by R. B Vetterit,: investigation for Kansas and wost-. @m Missouri; Raymond J. Caftrey, > - investigator for the bureau: | Grooms and Hermanson. The seven escorted Nash, handcuffed, throngh © the station to Caffrey‘s car, wait- ‘ rather than-wait for‘a train, -:: a ory -the dead - ware: ‘whot a on "Thought hots were Pirecretkaay™ One taxicab driver, near the beat. of the Iine'af cabs moving up t6,0* See MIRE Se Sasi a oo.