| Show PLANS OF DESPERATE MAN fAilED TO MATERIALIZE Millionaire Merchant Has Narrow Escape Es-cape from Clutches of Man Bent Upon Depleting His Bank Roll 11 Kansas City Lawrence M Jones1 a millionaire dry goods merchant president of the Jones Dry Goods company his wife and his son Chester Ches-ter narrowly escaped death Tuesday III the hands of a desperate man who entered Mr Joness home and with a dynamite bomb In one hand and a revolver In the other demanded 7000 from Air Jones After clever maneuvering Mr Jones managed to iflln the mans consent to accompany him and his son to a hank for funds While the trio were about to enter the Jones motor car lo be whirled I downtown Mr Jones threw himself upon the man from behind and seized him around the chest In such a fashion fash-ion as to pinion his arms At the same time by a trick he learned when a boy ho kicked the mans feet from under him Both fell and rolled down the stone steps at the edge of the Jones porch Chester the son < vas upon the Intruder before he could recover The young man seized the mans pistol In one hand Just as the trigger was pulled The weapon failed to explode The man who gives his name as C II Garnett admits that ho Intended to capture Mr Jones and hold him for ransom having hired u house In the suburb of the city where ho Intended to keep his captive until the ransom was paid I |
