Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-01-13 | Page 10 | 4 Arrested in Fatal Bombing

4 ARRESTED IN FATAL BOMBING KANSAS CITY Jan 13 P Three P-Three Three motion picture operators and John JohnE E Edward iward G Gillespie 22 ex convict were held today in connection with an explosion ex ex- explosion which killed Frank Alexander Alexander Alexan Alexan- der negro janitor in the Midland theater Monday night Detectives quoted Gillespie as ns sayIng saying say say- ing log he had placed a package under a balcony scat eat of the theater that night under orders of Ermal Jay Lime 34 president of the Sound Projectionists association Uon Lime E E. M M. Evans 40 business agent of the association a n local organization organization organ organ- organ organ-I and R R. H H. Dean 29 former secretary arc are under arrest Gillespie said he had been told that the package contained liquor and that it was to bo be picked up by someone else A woman companion corroborated corroborated rated his story He set the time of his visit at 11 o'clock when the last show was clos clos- ing Alexander was killed by the explosion ex cx- o of a package as he walked down a stairway into the lobb lobby at 1145 The Midland blast culminated a series of recent attacks against Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas City theaters but it was the first firstin firstin in which death resulted