ARMED GANGSTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1933, Page 7

ARMED GANGSTERS

CRIMES IN AMERICA’. MURDERS OF POLICE-MEN. NEW YORK, June 18. Not since the Jgt. Valentine Day massacre by gangsters several years ago j h'gs the United States been so stirred by -a. crime as by the -shooting of foil," policemen in cold blood right in front of the Union Station, Kansas City, yesterday. Machine-gun 6 were turned on an official party by gunmen, who -apparently were trying to effect the rescue of Frank Nash, -a, member of the notorious Spencer mail.train robber gang, who was being esco-rted to Leavenworth Federal prison. Nash also died in the hail of bullets. Raymond Caffrey, head operative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, w-a-s killed with two Kansas City detectives, Grooms and Hermanson, and the fourth office,, was Otto R-ee-d, Chief of Police, Oklahoma. Two other policemen were wounded. Nash -and his six escorts were entering a parked motor-car outside the depot when two other motor-cars swung round and from each ,a deadly stream of lead was poured. The policemen drew their guns, but neve,, succeeded in getting them into action. Three of the officers and Nash died on the ,spot. All were shot in their heads. More than a hundred phots were fired in all. and consternation seized the large crowd of travellers who were emerging from the train. j At Lafayette (Indiana) another encounter occurred between police and gangsters. Two gunmen walked into a trap in a .surgeon’s office, where they had gone for medical aid. The gunmen were so ciulek, however, that they compelled three policemen to run. Two o-f thc% officers were fatally wounded. Harry Hutson, an innocent passer-by, snatched a machine-gun f"om a wounded policeman and mowed -down the two gunmen -a$ They ran away. Cue gangster is dead and the isecond may die.