Show Justice I- I Dep Department J t 1 Orders Orders' Nationwide N Dragnet V- V Thrown Out Ou Law Enforcement Group Called palled to Join Quest Quest for t 4 K C. C Slayers 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTS ACT ACTS ACTS' Considers Killing ilUng of Officers ers as Defiance of Government t 1 Br y AnH AssocIated l Press Fun WASHINGTON June 17 Attorney 17 Attorney General Cummings today ordered every ev ry law enforcement agency under his command into the qu quest t for th the gangsters who took part in the Kansas Kan Kari sas City shooting this morning Add Additional onal justice department agents were ordered immediately to the scene of the killing The attorney attorney attorney ney general considers the slaying a a direct defiance of the government While Cummings w was in close touch with the situation himself the chief chic of the bureau of Investigation tion J. J J Edgar Hoover was actively directing the search scarcE Cummings Cumming has made warfare on gangsters and racketeers one of his hb major objectives objective The Kans Kansas City attack came at a a. time when federal eder l agents were actively investigating more more than re reports orts of r racketeering rick rack k throughout the country Seeking some light on the pikes pUces of Frank Prank Nash a a mall traIn robber experts were combing the files mes ol of at Leavenworth prison pr n over ver a period erl d of years e rs Gangsters Gang I L play y Four 9 Officers KANSAS CITY Mo June 17 i 17 Trapped Trappe l in a deadly crossfire fire of t I chine gun bullets four tour peace officers were massa massacred red here ere today without a chance to to fire tire a shot in their own wn defense With them died Frank Nash Nash- Nashes escaped escaped es es- es- es convict and member of thoU theAl l I Spencer gang of ot bank bank bandits an and ll train robbers that spread terror in L Oklahoma years ago The killings occurred on the Union station plaza where gan gangsters ers ers' made madea a murderous attempt t to liberate Na Nash Mash h as he was being the federal prison at Le Leavenworth Kansas which he in l from om escaped 1930 As the officers were entering an automobile with him for the trl trip trap to Leavenworth they were caught in 10 a barrage of bullets from two One group of at machine gunners gunnes leaped leaped from behind a parked perked car and opened fire at close range Simultaneously a s second ond group In Inan Inan an automobile p passing through t the e Continued on on Jale Two GANGSTERS KILL FOUR OFFICERS Continued Prom Pom Page Paje Paie One get plaza made the officers their target tar tar- tr- tr i 1 j jNO j 1 NO CHANCE TO FIGHT v i iThe The machine gunners swung tnt J action acton so quickly that the officers Int fell ell fel without a chance to fight for their their lives Ives I T The c slain lai officers were ere Raymond J. J Caffrey Cafrey agent of the department of ot justice Ott Reed chief of nolice I of McAlister Okla Oka and William I Grooms Groom and Frank Hermanson Kansas Kansas Kan- Kan Kanj i j sas sa City detectives l F. F F. F Lackey another agent of the department of justice was critically critical critIcal- I Ily ly wounded R. R R E. E head of of ot the department of justice bureau of investigation here received a minor flesh feh wound After the massacre the machine gunners who had emerged em from b be behind be hind a parked car ran to t their automobile automobile auto auto- aut- aut mobie mobile and Joined their comrades comrad Inthe in inthe the tc second automobile in flight Nash was wa captured yesterday in i Hot Springs Ark and officers brought him to Kansas City by train tri He arrived at the Union station staton early today in custody of ot Reed Caffrey Calfrey Cal Caf- Ca- Ca Cafrey frey and Lackey As the train pulled into the Union station staton a group of Kansas City of officers officers of met the party i Nash was wa taken from the train toan to toan an automobile parked parke on the station plaza He was manacled to one of ot the officers and was placed in the I Icar icar car with wih Chief Reed and two federa federal fed fed- eral men era Suddenly bursts burst of fire from three te machine guns gun echoed through the te plaza plaZ spraying bullets bulet on the group The Te bule bullets rattled ratted against the motor motor motor mo mo- mo- mo tor car ca and found their marks mark in the bodies of ot the officers caught caugh without without without with with- out a chance to defend themselves SLUMP OVER DEAD Nash and Reed slumped over in i ithe 4 the car car dead u Grooms and ad Hermanson fell fel to the pavement mortally wounded j Caffrey died a few minutes later in inthe i 3 the general hospital 3 Lackey desperately wounded in inthe inthe I Ithe the car was hurried to t the general hospital for emergency treatment He was shot three times R. R E. E agent in charge of the bureau of investigation here was wa wounded wound cd In the arm Bullets Bulet ripped his lis clothing but he escaped with wih I the he the or one orvo vo wound nd Th The rattle ratte of machine gun fire and ad groans of the dying men brought a a crowd rushing from the station staton Women Women Wo Wo- men screamed and men cried out In i awe at the spectacle A taxicab driver standing in front rant of the station looked south across acro the plaza just as a the machine gunners guner swung into action acton The machine gunners opened fire point blank at the officers I saw two two men fall tal in the tet beside the thc car in which the officers had lad put their prisoner said sid Robert Robet Fritz Fiz the taxicab driver diver They fell In each others other's arms ar Later I learned fel that they were fellow fel- fel Lter low ow officers who always teamed to- to r gether jether With Wih the first frt sho shots I saw an another another an- an aJ- aJ other driver slump over in his cab I ducked and crawled to him think think- I tag Lg ng he had been hitHe hitHe hit hit He was uninjured He said eXcitedly ex excitedly e- e that he thought though hed he'd better beter get under cover WHIPS OUT GUN beside a stone Just back of ot me pillar piar of the station staton a a tra traffic c officer r 4 whipped out his hi gunBy gun By that time the machine gunners were vere speeding up their car toward the te i street treet that leads lp toward Penn Valley Valey Val Val- 1 icy ley ey park The traffic trac officer fired several i Quick s shots at the fleeing feeing car ca 1 I j jont dont don't think they took effect didn't have a i The traffic officer didt chance hance for a good shot with wih the ma- ma m- m through chine gunners gunners' car weaving r rUThen traffic Then UThen I rushed over to where L the te dead ead men lay The scene was wa a aw ul ful S SIt It was only by a miracle that none of f I the motorists and pedestrians pass pas the station plaza at t 1110 tag ing ng through staton plaz tle time ime missed being struck by oui- oui lets let Within the station crowds crowds' w WI were e pouring curing from staton the early momi eary tr trains rains The machine gun fire i. i of th th toe through the vast concourse of J station Many within thought the jj the station guns uhs were being fired fred in self It-self- They ran for any con enle itel Tey shelter heller sheler the he sw tta Some of the customers in te st- st ion tion ton restaurant dropped down bell j behl L the he counters 0 f f |