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Kansas City Massacre — Part 32

138 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 3, 1916 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 138 pages OCR'd
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Lert ape est i aes ane Lena 7 ee 6. Seeke Dick Galetne. ae > Ent on w of Killers’ Gang. + 1: New Your, ‘Jan. ‘B—The “anton ‘station massacre at Kansas City of ‘four officers and their prisoner will be completely avenged with the ar-. rest of Richard T. (Dick) Galatas, alias Dick Sheridan, who today is the subject. of an intensive search,” by) government agents. - Galatas, underworld boss. ‘ot - Het Springs, Ark., was the master mind of the -slaying of @ department of . justice agent, the chigf of police of.) - - McAlester, Ok., two Kansas City de- tectlves and their prisoner, Frank Nash, on June 17 last when an at- ‘tempt was made by gunmen to’ take Nash away from the officers... > : It was charged by the governinent | that ‘George “Machine: Gun* , Harvey Bailey, Verne Miller and wil- ‘bur Underhill were the main mem- . bers of the mob that actually’ did the shooting. There were others,’ however, who contributed to the kill. Angs by advising the gang.as to the “movements of the officers. - : :. Frank Nash, bandit and bank robe, , ber, wanted by the United States, j was found to be in Hot Springs, fe-; mous hide-out town for mobsters from | au over the country. Dick Galatas “owned” Hot Springs and any crirai- ‘nal he knew was safe in that town, _ vestigation arrested Nash and spir- ‘ited him eway without even the Jogal ‘police knowing what was going on, .Galatas felt that his prestige os. % was at stake. and ‘deter- j Protector was ats fete Vad She With Mre. Nash he chartered j teirplane and within dn hour from "the arrest was on the way to Joplin, Mo. he having been informed that; ~ » -- j the federal men had taken the au-]. =" = tomobile road toward that city, +: - | Arriving at Joplin, he went tothe ,home of Henry Farmer and from! . ~ . there made several Terig distance tele. } z phone calle to Chicago and Kansas, ~ , Clty, The Kansas City, calls were a _ direct to Verne Miller, - -- | Miller was positively. identified ‘as ‘one of the machine gunners in the {6laylngs white other evidence pointed . to Kelly, Bailey and Underhill. -. Bailey and Kelly were taken ‘in the’ - " Urachel kidnaping case, and Verne ‘ Miller was alain by Detroit gangsters. ; Wilbur Underhill was wounded fatally - ot ce Ig i by federal agents and police when hes mo, J ea | resisted arrest at Shawnee, Ok. - end Mrs. Farmer and Mre. Nash Wash were taught shortly after the massacre. 4 . Today's orders are out that Ga _ Be Ss the master mind, must be taken dead. . me wi. eet ‘or allve, and Hoover ts determined TT : ° ;this will be soon. When this under- . \world protector ie In custody or in the morgue the case will be placed on the , telosed fleas ene ied ee .
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