Show MA MACHINE CHINlE GUN KELLY r WARNS UNCLE OF WIFE I DAUGHTER OF KANSAS KANSAS' CHIEF UNDER GUARD Governor Landon Reveals Plot to Kidnap p Member Menther of His Family B BAILEY ILEY GANG aANa BLAMED Underworld Seeks to Free Life ermers Br BT Associated Press Frets TOPEKA Kan Sept 21 A 21 A kidnap kidnap kid kid- nap nap plot in which his year 16 year old ld daughter Pem Pegy Ann was to have been en held a prisoner until he granted grant granted ed executive clemency to members of of the n notorious Harvey Wil Bailey bur gang ur gang now confined in inthe the Kansas penitentiary was made public today by Governor Alfred M. M Landon While denying receipt of any ac actual ual threat the governor said id so 80 much u h c confirmatory evidence had hind b been n- n disclosed by that guards have hav been be maintained at the executive mansion 1 Miss Landon attractive high school senior enior has been under the survell- survell 1 lim cc lance of ot armed since guards th plo was revealed to the governor than lan three weeks ago r Guards armed with riot guns also have maintained watch over the executIve executive ex ex executive mansion where the governor lIves ives Miss Landon and her old month sister Nancy Nany Nan Nan- cy y Jo Eleven men including six long long- term erm convicts In the penitentiary and anda a woman were said by the gov gov- to 10 have been involved in the plot lot Their names were not dis closed INCLUDES PRISONERS Governor Landon Landoni said In a statement statement state state- ment meat however the gang included prisoners prisoners' identified as having affiliations affil affil- with the Bailey Underhill gang ang Information given to him he said was as that the plot was organized by friends or relatives of members of 01 the ic gang in the penitentiary Some of ot those on the outside Governor Landon said possibly Continued on Pace Pate Two I DAUGHTER OF KANSAS CHIEF UNDER GUARD Continued from Paw Pare One I w a among ong the 11 convicts who par d In the break from the Kan Ken sos Sas as penitentiary ry last last ast Memorial day under the leadership of ot Bailey am and Underhill Bailey now Is on trial tria for far the Charles F. F Urschel at Oklahoma City and Underhill MillIs still Mill is a fugitive along with Ed Davis Bob Brady and Jim Clark Clark all all illers ill lif ers The others have been recaptured recap t red or r slain In the dash for tor freedom the gang ang Kirk Prather former warden warden warden war war- den later releasing him unharmed In m Oklahoma The leak first came to me about abou throe three weeks a ago ao o from an convict ex-convict with a long c criminal record through af ir poll police e officer outside of Topeka Governor London Landon said We of ol course tried to keep the story quiet in-an in I an attempt to round up those in in- v wh e names had been given to jus Here is the story J PLOT The The plot was to kidnap one of my ray daughters and hold her for ransom e r ransom was to be ten day e pa pa- pa roles role for Zot six men now held hd under J Jong ng sentences in the Kansas peni peni- Some of the men who were to be paroled h have ve been Identified as having affiliations with the Bailey Baile- gang of outlaws in Okla Okia The Information given to me was mat tHal the gang which organized the plot were friends or rela rela- of ot those in the i penitentiary ry and possibly were some of those who had ha C s escaped with Bailey and at atthe atthe the time of ot the Memorial day break when Warden Varden Kirk Prather was kid and taken to Oklahoma In addition to the six Ix men in the penitentiary my information was wac yas that five men and a woman outside the prison would carry out the plot My Informant said that the victim of the was to be taken to a farm tarm not far from my home in Independence Inde and was there to be held until the the paroles were granted delivered delivered delivered de de- de- de livered to the prison and the men re re- leased eased and given sufficient time to escape possible capture REASON FO FOR FOn REQUEST The reason given to me for ask ask- ing ng for ten-day ten paroles Is this A day en-day day parole does not have to be advertised a ten-day ten parole does n not require notice to the authorities in other states which want most mort of th the six Ix men who were in the Kansas Kansa prison In other words if we were to o advertise these paroles we would have lave had to notify for tor instance Oklahoma Oklahoma Ok Ok- lahoma to be waiting for its ill men o on hold lold orders when the paroles were granted Temporary paroles ar are are those hose granted to attend members o ohe or of orthe the he prisoners' prisoners families when there is sickness or something like that The Theo They do o not require notice and Kansas Kansa would be under no obligation to notify no other states and the prisoners would have ten days to Jo break their paroles and get away No actual threat was delivered t to tome torae me rae but in checking up p the information tion on which was given there was s so much confirmatory evidence disclosed dis dis- closed by the investigators that for a considerable period since the plot lot was wa first revealed we have maintained at the governors governor's residence guards g enors |