Show RAID BY G C MEN NABS SUSPECT IN ABDUCTION Weyerhaeuser C Case as e Figure Caught in lit N. N Y Apartment By United Press NEW YORK March 13 13 Edward Bentz Bent pal of Machine Machine Machine Ma chine Gun Kelly and other desperadoes suspect in numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu bank robberies in several several several sev sev- eral parts of the country and wanted for questioning in the of Geo George ge Weyerhaeuser Weyerhaeuser Weyerhaeuser Weyer Weyer- haeuser was arrested by federal federal fed fed- eral agents tod today y in a tear gas raid on his Brooklyn ap apartment apart apart- rt i ment ent hideout The apartment was a virtual ar ar- ar- ar senal The raiders discovered two m machine chino guns a rifle three pistols hundreds of rounds round of ammunition and a a bu proof bullet vest Lived a as Boa Boarder de Ben Bentz had- had been been living as a boarder in the tho room five-room flat occupied oc by Louis wife and three young children since February February Feb Fob 20 The Phillips family mUy was wa driven Into the street by the t tear ar ar gas bombs which the G men dropped into the apartment through a rear window Bentz was hId vered ing l in a dumbwaiter clinging clinging- to rop ropes s between the second and third floors He surrendered without a fight B Bentz and t the e were taken aken to department of justice headquarters In Manhattan for lor questioning Refuse Information Aside from admitting that Bentz Beats was wanted for questioning In the Weyerhaeuser federal agents refused to divulge any Information information information in In- formation concerning his alleged par part In the case Bentz was clad lad only in his underwear underwear underwear under under- wear when captured Ten G men surrounded m al four- four story brick tenement In Brooklyn and concentrated on the room five apartment in which the Phillips family lived The door of the flat fiat w was locked and there was no response to Continued Continue on Pigs Page Two Column Six r Run fl to foG Ground round I 4 m Edward Bentz Trapped in Brooklyn Apartment G 0 a MEN CAPTURE KIDNAP SUSPECT Continued from p Page cOne One knocks One of ot tho the agen agents opened a R. rear window and tossed in several tear tear teargas gas bombs Phillips tears running running run run- ning ring down his face opened the d door or and ond ran into the with his wife and children I They were held only for lor questioning question question- ing and investigation I A search of f the apartment failed to disclose any trace of ot Bent Bentz al although although although al- al though his weapons were found When the dumb waiter was wu opened an agent saw the fugitive clinging to the ropes between en the s second cond and third floors and appa apparently trying to reach the roo roof Threatens to Firs FIre Come down or Ill I'll shoot the agent shouted Bentz slipped sUpped to the ground floor level where he was arrested Bentz was alleged by federal agents to have been implicated in inthe inthe inthe the r robbery of the Lincoln Neb National bank in hi September 1930 1030 Bentz Bents and one James L. L Hipley Ripley were indicted by by bya a a. federal grand Jury at Rutland Vt VL on October 11 1934 1931 on on charges of ot robbing the Caledonia National bank at Danville Dan Dan- yule ville Vt of OO Rob Bank Barik I I On S September 10 10 1934 three men two of whom were identified as Bentz and Ripley alias ahas Avery very Si Simons Simons Simons Si- Si mons robbed the First National bank of Brandon Vt and escaped with 2404 in hl cash cash- They They he were Indicted Indicted in indicted In- In for the robbery on March 15 1935 by a grand jury in Burlington Bentz and Simons were believed also to bo be the tho bandits who robbed the First National bank of Morrisville Morris Morris- yule ville N. N C. C of ot In cash bonds and travelers travelers' checks on November 28 1934 Bentz criminal record dates back to 1910 when he was sentenced to the state training school at Chehalis Wash on petty larceny charges but bul later escaped Arrested In Tacoma He was arrested in Tacoma Wash a year later and sentenced to the state reformatory at Monroe Wash and later was transferred to the state penitentiary at Walla Valla Walla VaUa He was discharged in 1914 and two years later was arrested again in Tacoma on charges of grand larceny larceny larceny lar lar- lar- lar ceny and forgery He was Nas paroled twice and both times Umes violated the parole but on the second time was not From 1916 to 1932 he was arrested on various charges in more mor than a I dozen cities He served a three one-three- year term in Wisconsin state penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary peni peni- and another in Michigan state prison His lat latest st previous arrest was in Fort Worth Texas on November 7 1932 on a Do fugitive from justice charge He was saz re released released released re- re leased on bond and forfeited It |