| Show GUN IN ONE HAND BOMB IN OTHER Dynamiter Attempts to Black Blackmail Blackmail Blackmail mail Millionaire Merchant of Kansas City CAPTURED BY THE LATTER OUTCOME RESULT OF COOLNESS AND CLEARHEADEDNESS t Kansas City Feb 16 Lawrence M Jones a millionaire dry goods merchant president of oC the Jones Dry Goods com corn company company pany his wife viCe and his son Chester nar narrowly narrowly narrowly escaped death today at the hands handsor of or a desperate man who entered Mr Sir Jones Tones home and with a dynamite bomb bombIn In one hand and a revolver In the other demanded from Mr Jones Tones After ACter maneuvering Mr Jones Tones managed to gain the mans consent to accompany him and his son to a bank for the funds White the trio were about to enter the Jones Tones motor car carS to be he whirled down town Mr Ir Jones Tones threw himself upon the man from behind and seized him around the i chest in such sueh a fashion as to pinion his Ms I arms anns At the same time by a trick ho he I learned when a boy he kicked tro tho mans feet fe et from under him Both fell at aid d rolled rolle I down the stone steps at tie the t e edge of or the Ule I Jones Tones porch Chester the son was upon the intruder before he could recover The young oung man seized the mans pistol In one hand Just as the trigger was pulled The weapon failed to explode Mrs Mm Jones Tones then ran in close and seized the bag containing the tho bomb which she carried to the house An Art examination of It showed that the match had Ignited but failed to explode the powder doubtless having smothered the flames Desperado a Foreigner At the tho police station the intruder gave the name of or C IL Garnett He Me acknowledged acknowledged acknowledged edged however that this was wa not his real name Garnett Is about five feet six Inches tall weight about ISO pounds and is 40 years ears of age He lie has the appearance of being a foreigner but speaks English quite well He Mo has a tanned skin and dark hair recently cut His eyes are a awater watery water brown and are crossed His ears are set close to his head and with his black slouch hat pulled far over his face faCt one Instinctively thinks of oC border ruffians Garnett says he is 40 and In hard luck Ills His home Is In Omaha Im rm not ashamed of my Intentions said he I 1 go Ing to slug a poor man over the head In Ina Ina ina a dark alley aile I 1 made up my mind to go out to some mansion in broad daylight daUght and make my demands A maid at the Jones Tones home homo corroborates Garnetts statement that he called there thereon on last Saturday Garnett Gamett told an Inter Interviewer Interviewer interviewer viewer that he planned to make the late J K Burnham also a wealthy dry goods good goodman goodsman man his victim At the Burnham home he learned that Mr Ir Burnham had been dead two years On my way down town from Burnhams he lie said I saw the Jones Brothers sign and decided to go after Mr Jones ToneR I looked his address up I In the telephone directory and you know I tho thi th rest Following Garnetts statement the po police police lice lato late this found the house where Garnett proposed to imprison Mr Jones after getting the money monc It is a small frame affair at Linden avenue In Independence Mo a suburb A closet on the tho second floor of oC the house was rigged up for the prison A large screw ring was set Into the tho wall all about four feet from the floor A chain with links of oC one Quarter of an Inch thickness was vas at nt attached attached so that about three theo feet of or chain fell on either cither side At each end of the chain was a new lock These Those were wen for Mr Jones Jone arms On the tile floor just Inside the door sill was as the second chain each end of which bore boro a lock loek Then Garnett had made a bench that just fitted into the tho closet It was as sufficiently high so to that when the victim sat down he lie could have hac been securely chained In place The house hous Is In a secluded spot Garnett said he ProPosed to tn chain Mr Jones Jon un Mrs IrS Jones Tones of of her lur husbands il wll whereabouts ie 1 O ts i by b mall mail and make his hi escape Mr Jones was as full fun of praise for his bravery when seen se n this afternoon Praise for Wife and Boy BoyTo Two To hours and a half prisoner said Mr Ir Jones with a sigh of relief and throughout hout the experience Mrs Irs Jones was more calm by b far than 1 My I boy too deserves great credit for fur his coolness I 1 knew we would get t the man sooner or later but I J was helpless In Inthe Inthe inthe the face of that dynamite I feel that we all have came through a dangerous ex cx experience experience with the greatest good fortune Mrs Mis Jones Tones said saH she offered the man some coffee shortly after entering the li Ii library braT and seeing s the situation Ive Ie neither eaten nor slept for four tour days das he told her ller Poor man she said have hae you ou a wife and babies Yes Tell me about them Oh you be Interested d because you ou have hae plenty plent of money responded the Intruder Lawrence M f Jones Tones s 5 well wen known throughout the entire country because of his interest in national waterways He was a delegate to the recent national waterways convention In Washington He lIe has been conspicuous in Republican party circles In Missouri In 1903 lOOg Mr Jones Tones was a delegate at large from Missouri to the tue national Republican convention He HeIs HeIs Heis Is a pioneer a merchant whose fortune has grown Irown In equal proportions with Kansas I City |
