Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-12 | Page 1 | Notorious Bandit Slain by Gunmen

NOTORIOUS B BANDIT Sl SLAIN IN BY GUNMEN Death Ends Career Marked by Great Cleverness and Profligacy NEW NES' YORK la I May 12 United Roy 26 boy prodigy and imd nd former Columbia university student stu- stu dent who attracted d nationwide at- at when ho he won on his freedom from rom Sing Sin SIng Sine prison through use usef of f his lila knowledge of or the thc law gained hUe b behind the bars bar was vas shot to death cath today In a waterfront eilf cafe Ills His body was riddled with slugs from rom shotguns fired police said aid by bj four our men Patrolman John who detected detected de- de the faintest sign of life me in loane's loanes body took him to Jewish Memorial hospital where lIe he died soon oon after ater being admitted Sloane who was out on ban ball await await- awaitIng lag Ing ng trial on a n char charge e of participatIng lug Ing ig in a gem robbery barely two months after he gained his release from rom Sing Sing was tho the son of ot Mrs Anna nua Sloane B. B A. A M. M A. A Ph h. h D. D founder of the National Arts and nd Crafts institute at Washington D. D C. C a former investigator for tor the department of labor and an author of several crai books She Sho had stuck by her herson son soil throughout all his difficulties SHOT HOT DOWN IN CAFE Police Pollee said the shooting occurred ill In u the Mad Dot Boat club a Dykeman Dyke- Dyke Dykeman Dykeman man street cafe shortly after alter mid mid- tI 1 c. c NOTORIOUS BANDIT SlAIN BY GUNMAN Continued from Pa Pace Face e One night Sloane's body was not identified iden- iden until several hours later His death recalled an assertion he made shortly after his release from prIson rison When a man has seen the worst worst and and I have have have- he said life doesn't hold any terror for him Sloane was convicted six sL years ago agon on n a charge of or stealing an automobile In n Mount Vernon Mount Vernon N. N Y When it was discovered ered he had served a sentence in n Pennsylvania for tor two similar offenses offenses of- of he was sent to Sing Stag Sing for foren forten forten ten en vears years H Hardly had had the gates of the prison shut hut behind him than this paradox of f prodigy and profligate began to study tudy two exits from Sing Sing One was through the law The other over th the he walls His study of ot the lat latter r was Interrupted d by a vigilant keeper WINS NEW TRIAL Despite his isolation for attempted prison irison breaks Sloane continued contended his bid ld for tor freedom by legal means Fi- Fi ally nally the youth won a new trial on the 10 automobile theft charge He conducted conducted con- con ducted his did with own case and case and it the he shrewdness of ot a rate first-rate criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal lawyer Ho He produced two fellow prisoners both long as his chief wit- wit nesses esses They testified they had stolen olen the car In question and that Sloane loane had been framed The Jury acquitted him But a brass knuckles sentence was still against him and ande he e was sent up to Dannemora At Dannemora Sloane finally discovered discovered dis dis- covered cred a legal loophole which might win him his freedom He argued that hat since Ince he had been acquitted of his last motor car theft he 00 was only a first offender under the law The court of appeals agreed with him and he was on a reduced charge to misdemeanor misdemeanor to a a maximum maxImum maximum maxi maxI- mum penalty of one year ear Since he already had served four tour his release was automatic He obtained his freedom and went to o work in a New York law office Nine weeks after aUer his return to society so- so so society clety he was arrested atTested Identified as one of three armed men who held up upa a manufacturing jeweler Sloane was indicted and was out on ball bail when the shotgun slugs put an end to his career