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DEATH ADVOCATED FOR ALL KIDNAPERS Edmund Pearson, Writer, . Sees Surety of Punishment Best Curb on Crime. By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, July 14—Tt will “be & very fortunate and comfortable day for the people of this country when some Kkidnaper sits d-wn in the electric chair,” in the opinion of Edmund Pearson, one of America’s foremost writers on real’ life crimes. | “The crime of kidnaping is one which | cannot be explained by people who try! to account for all crime cn the greund | that it is a matter of sudden passion org impulse,” said Pearson. “It is a piece of carefully thought-out and calculated devilishness. *The kid- naper plans to_extort money by tortur- ing pecple. The men who plan kid- napings cughi never to be allowed out- side of prisor again. Punishment Seen Solution. Pearson believes swift and sure pun- ishment, particularly of murderers, offers a solution of the crime problem, citing the example of England and Canada. Ten years of murder trial study als> has convinced the historian of the Lizzie Borden murder case and other sensational American crimes that | 80 or 90 per cent of persons formally accused of murder are guilty. “The men who make up the plots of detective stories always go on the idea that the fellow who is accused is never guilty. My business has been to study the trials of real rder cases. esulted in the disco vy that the who are seriously and formally accused of murder are—in at least 8C or 90 per cent of the cases—actually the guilty ones. “This has made me lose the roman- tic and sentimental view of murderers.” However, Pearson does not believe that all convictions are proper or that all verdicts of “not guilty” are mis- takes. Innocent Aren’t Railroaded. “A great many guilty people get off scotfree—there’s little doubs of that. ©On the other hand, I could cite many acquittals which were quite correct— in the famous Hall-Mills trial, for in- stance. It's my opinion that all three of the defendants were entirely inno- cent—and the jury found it out. Ju- ries are better at discovering the truth than the novelists would have you believe. “When a jury brings in a first-de- gree verdict in a murder case, and when the higher court approves the murder verdict the chances of error @are small.” Pearson holds that it virtually is im- ?ossible for an innocent man to be railroaded” to the electric chair. It’s a terrible task in this country today to con a clearly guilty man, let alone an innocent one. I don't know of even one well-established case of the execution of an innocent pe:- son, either in Englafid or the United States, in the last 75 or 100 years.” ROOSEVELT PLANNING WEEK END ON SEQUOIA| Small Party of Friends to Ac- company President With Hopes of Fishing. President Roosevelt is planning to] end the week end aboard the presi- ential yacht Sequoia cruising about the Lower Potomac River and probably out on Chesapeake Bay. The President will be accompanied | by a small party of friends, who will | take along their fishing tackle, and it | is thought that all hands will make | occasional tries for hard heads and trout. The President plans to engage in very little business. He said today he 5 looking forward to a rest from His plans are to return to the House shortly after dark Sunday. PLANS EXCURSION Elks Lodge,kNO. 15, to Sail Poto- mac Monday Night. Members of Washington Lodge of Elks, No. 15, and their friends will hold a moonlight_excursion down_the Po- tomac next Monday night. Plans are being made for special entertainment aboard the “Elks’ Show Boat.” Fea- tures will be a concert by the Elks’ Boys' Band and a program of.songs and dance numbers by Earl Mossman and his Mayfair Garden Revue. The entertainers will include Mary Deery, Jobnrie Barnes, Joan Marr, Charles Demmer, the Stevens Sisters and the Fitzgerald and McCreight team Charles L. 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SRS ATTaRO. WE'RE GOOD FOLKS to know when big storms come. Practical *s 1o stop the leaks promptiy and per- us serve you. Call us up! OOFING 933 VSt. N.W. PANY th 4 Treasury Department Omce of the“.combtl’flllfl' of the Curremey e Moy give ‘“-,j:,"'um‘“ who Notice i3 hereby given to al mav_ have claims against ~The Commercial National Bank ot Washington,” District of Columbia. that the same must be present Robert C. Baldwin, Receiver, with the &llf!flof thereof within three months from is date or they flll’ly DETG‘IOI.“D'EG, Comptiolier of the Currency. Gang Victims DOCTORS SUFFER VIOLENCE IN STRANGE CASE. DR. E. J. ENGBERG. DOCTORS' SEIZURE REMANS MYSTERY Police Check Patients of One Victim in Effort to Ex- plain Attack. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, July 14.—Investigation into an unexplained attack upon two St. Paul doctcrs on a lonely road shifted today to a list of names found in the office of Dr. W. H. Hedberg, upon whom a mutilating operation was intended to have been performed. Although no results were announced by police; they also sought the identity of a woman, who had visited Dr. Hed- berg, a chiropractor, and asked that he perform an illegal operation. The names of other possible suspects also were sought in his list of patients. Motive Still Puzzle. Meanwhile, police still were puzzled as they attempted to uncover a motive for the attack, which resulted in hos- pital confinement for Dr. Hedberg and Dr. E. J. Engberg, prominent physician, who had been lured to a secluded spot Tuesday night to perform the operation. One new development came with the assertion by Dr. Joel E. Hultkrans, medical associate of Dr. Engberg, that he believed the gang of four men had planned for a long time to call upon Dr. Engberg for their purpose. Dr. Hultkrans disclosed he had re- ceived a telephone call a week ago from & man who gave his name as “John Anderson,” asking for Dr. Engberg. In- formed Dr. Engberg was out of thke city, the man refused Dr. Hultkrans’ offer to see the supposed patient, and insisted hfs wanted Dr. Engberg and no one else. Believes Visit “Frame-Up.” The next day this man arranged a | meeting at the place where the attack later occurred, but failed to keep the appointment. At the same time that Dr. Hedberg disclosed he had refused to perform an illegal operation for the unidentified woman who had visited him and that he believed her visit was a “frame-up,” Dr. Engberg revealed that the gang on the night of the attack had in its possession the surgical instruments necessary for an operation such as they insisted be performed upon the chiro- practor. Dr. Engberg refused to operate. CHINESE AIR FORCE BUYS FAST PLANES Single-Seater Fighters Ordered by Government Are Like Those Used by U. S. ‘Thirty-six of the fastest pursuit planes used in the United States Army have just been ordered by the Chinese government for use in the modernized Chinese Air Force, according to reports received by aviation officials here. The new planes are single-seater fighters, powered by the new two-row 700-horsepower engines. The ships are said to have a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour and to be capable of driving at speeds in excess of 350 miles per hour. The new planes, which will equip two pursuit squadrons, will cost approxi- mately $1,000,000. The planes will be equipped with the latest single strut landing gear and new type wheel fairing to increase speed. A number of American military air- planes of several types are used in the Chinese Air Force, which is being ex- panded and brought up to the highest standards of equipment since the begin- ning of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Church Class Plans Supper. SILVER SPRING, Md., July 14 (Spe- cial) —The adult class of the Sfiver Spring Baptist Church will hold an ice cream supper on the church lawn to- morrow night at 6 o'’clock. Mrs. S. E. Sapp is chairman of the affair, pro- ceeds of which will be used for the benefit of the church. Riverdale Women to Picnic. RIVERDALE, Md., July 13 (Special). —The Woman's Club of Riverdale and members of their families will hold a basket picnic tomorrow at the Fair- haven Beach cottage of the retiring president, Mrs. H. E. Wackerman, Mrs. Mara C. Worley is chairman of arrange- men —_ Aids Membership Drive. HYATT|\VILLE, Md., July 14 (Spe- cial) —Thdnas H. Welsh, secretary of the Hyattsville Building Association, has beon appointed key man for this section in the Nation-wide membership campaign of the United B ing and Loan League. THE EVENIIIG IDCONNELLS NAME NEW NEGOTIATORS| Fourth Letter Received From Kidnapers Is Signed by Captive Youth. (Continued From First Page.) negotiations which are being conducted exclusively by the O’Connells. “Postal Inspector Teagle in Albany will carry on the investigation,” Burden declared. “It will, of course, be neces- sary for him to see the letters.” 2 Catskills Are Watched. ‘The legend-laden Catskill Mountains, where Rip Van Winkle took his long sleep, still held the eattention of the New York State police, end interest in that area was heightened by the re- ported appearance there early today of the missing man’s father. The elder O'Connell was said to have stopped for a short time at one of the hotels in the village of Catskill, used by the slain “Legs” Diamond as the out-of-the-way headquarters for _his racketeering activities in New York City. According to information emanating from the village, O'Connell left in an automobile and presumably returned to| his brother Dan’s Thompson Lake Sum- l mer home, where the pair have been ‘waiting for a contact. The other brother, Ed, remained in the city. Meanwhile District Attorney John T.1 Delaney, in charge of the local investi- gation, conferred with his operatives who yesterday turned up three persons who were questioned by the prosecutor in his endeavor to find the Albany resi- dent, who, he said, co-operated with the kidnapers in snatching young O'Con- nell early last Friday. Investigators Silent. New York City detectives, familiar with the escapades of Diamond in Green County in the Catskill Moun- tai worked feverishly in that area, while Thomas Cullen’s Department of Justice agents moved quietly here, in Buffalo and in Manhattan. No comment on their activity was ob- tainable from either of the groups, al- though the officers in charge expressed themselves as pleased with the work of their men. Newspapers receive a report that cries had been heard last Friday night from an automobile passing through Thacher Park, a popular section of the Helderberg Mountains near the O'Con- nell Camp. There_was no verification of the re- port. State police at Troy Barracks, directing the search for young O'Con- nell, said they had not heard of it. PAPERS GET NEW LISTS. Three Sets of Intermediaries Selected By O’Connell Family. NEW YORK, July 14 (#).—The New York Sun, one of the newspapers desig- nated by the kidnapers of Lieut. John J. O’Connell, jr., to publish the names | of a new set of negotiators, received | the advertisement from the O'Connell family shortly before noon today. Jim O'Connell, former New York !saloon keeper and at present a restau- |rant man in Albany, Dave Sherman and | Joe Curro were named in simple code. Another message was received by the World-Telegram at the same time naming three other negotiators. The same simple code was used and the (form of the advertisement was the same. ‘The three named in the World-Tele- gram were Charles Wachter, Tony Condi and Manny Strewl. In this case, the advertisement was signed by “Willle Martin.” ‘Wachter is employed in a Troy, N. Y., | brewery and Strewl is a beer dis- tributor in Albany. The third advertisement received by the New York Journal named Sylvester Hess, Fred Roma and Terry Riley, in the same code and was signed “Tom Tyndall.” LUER NOTES DOU|:TED. | i Agents for Banker’s Family Await Prnolé From Abductors. ALTON, IIl, July 14 (#).—Two notes demanding ransom for August Luer, 77- year-old Alton banker, have been re- ceived by Luer's family, it was an- nounced here today. Agents for the | family said neither of the notes bore Luer's handwriting. The family’s zgents, O. S. Catt and | Lawrence Keller, jr., said they would, |insist that any note from the kid- | napers bear a few lines of Luer’s hand- | writing, and be signed by him, before they would recognize the note as gen- | uine. “This is the only condition on which we will further negotiate with his cap- tors,” the agents said, “and until we have proper proof that he is being held by one of the persons from whom we have received communications, none (of the instructions contained in the demand note will be carried out.” The agents refused to amplify their statement, and would not say how the notes were received or give descrip- tion of them. Ey P Negotiator Optimistic. . Detention of the two men for ques- tioning in connection with the abduc- tion of ‘Luer was followed today by an optimistic statement by Keller. Keller, an official in an‘Alton bank of which the missing semi-invalid is president, said he “wouldn’t be surprised to see something pop almost anytime.” He then exhihited a bottle of tablets such as Luer uses during heart attacks, and declined to amplify his comment. Relatives of the abduction _victim, seized in his own home last Monday night by two men and a woman, have expressed fear that the banker might not survive his experience because of | his ill health. The family also has made a public plea that the kidnapers | supply their captive with the medicine. Further questioning of a father and son, taken into custody in St. Louis yesterday and confined in the county ; jail at Edwardsville, Il last night, was scheduled for today. No charges have been filed against them. The older man, a St. Louis hotel proprietor, was detained by police and | Federal investigators after Thomas But- ler, Alton mayor, informed them the man telephoned suggestions designed to aid in the return of Luer. Two Profess Innocence. Previously police had withdrawn offi- cially from the case at the request of | the Luer family. This action wu; closely linked with the appointment of Keller and Gatt, manager of an Alton meat packing plant, as representatives of the Luers in possible ransom nego- tiations. Mayor Butler said the St. Louis hotel man suggested that Catt be replaced as negotiator by William Luer, a son of the missing man. He also was declared to have suggested $50,000 as the correct ! ransom amount. | Both the hotel man and his son pro- fessed their innocence and asked to be taken to Alton to make personal expla- nation. The father was quoted as say- ing he was intoxicated when he made the call to Mayor Butler and acted purely from friendly ‘interest. Before ccming to St. Louis he managed a hotel in Alton, purchased from the Luer fam- ily. The Luers later repossessed the bui 2 ilding. A threat that police power of the State would be thrown again into an attempt to capture the kidnapers was voiced by Mayor Butler after a long- distance telephone talk with Gov. Henry Horner. ‘The mayor said the Governor offered aid of as many State highway patrol- men as desired and suggested that the - i STAR, WASHINC TON, D1, 0, [ FRIT Y, JULY 14, 1933. hunt be resumed if nothing was heard soon from the abductors. SAW FACTOR PAYMENT. Woman Says She Can Identify One Man Involved in Case. CHICAGO, July 14 (#).—From a woman who is believed to have wit- nessed the $50,000 “down payment” that resuited in the release by kidnapers of John Factor has come a clue that many help investigators find the men who abducted him. She is Mrs. Cardie Kiefer of near Hinsdale, who told Police Chief George Kummerow of suburban Elmhurst a story that coincided with the details of the ransom payment as related by Fac- tor himself. Mrs. Kiefer said she could identify one of the men she saw. Mrs. Kiefer said her attention was attracted Wednesday afternoon by & taxicab which was being driven slowly along a street in Hinsdale, followed by a small coupe containing two men. Can Identify Two. ere was one passenger in the cab,” she said. “He got out and ap- proached the coupe. He was carrying something that looked like a brightly colored chain—perhaps a pair of hand- cuffs. The door of the coupe was opened a few inches and the man from the cab looked in. Thén he went back to the cab and obtained a brief case which he gave to the‘men in the coupe. The coupe left hurriedly and the cab was driven east toward Chicago.” She added she could identify the passenger in the cab, as well as the driver. - ‘While she was telling her story Factor was recuperating and 240 of- ficers were searching various parts of Cook County for the farm house where, he said, he was held prisoner and threatened with deat: by the kidnap- ers. He admitted tpat $50,000 was paid, but reports persisted that this was only part of the ransom, estimated in some quarters as high as $200,000. Others Reported in Danger. The Herald and Examiner today said three wealthy sportsmen have been marked for kidnaping by the gang that | abducted Factor. The men named by the Herald and Examiner as the next victims are: John D. Hertz, former president of the Yel- low Cab Co.; Otto Lehmann, son of a department store founder, and Warren . Wright, former president of the Lincoln Park Board. ‘The newspaper said Federal under- cover men were rushed to the Arlington Park Race Track, where all three main- tain stables and are frequent visitors, after Government agents had talked with Factor yesterday concerning his experiences. It was said the kidnapings would be attempted at the track. MOVIE COLONY ALARMED. Hollywood “Scotland Yard” Planned to | War on Kidnapers. HOLLYWOOD, July 14 (P)—Steps toward the formation of a Hollywood “Scotland Yard” were advocated yes- terday as film celebrities, feeling a bit jittery as a result of the recent wave of kidnaping, depleted the ranks of un- employed bodyguards. Many stars of cinema land during the past few days have employed private police for themselves or their children in fear that an effort will be made to abduct them. Others have had such protection regularly. The recent kidnaping of John J. O’Connell, jr., son of a powerful New York politican, brought to a new peak the demand for bodyguards and as a result former detectives, many of them pensioned from the Los Angeles Police Department, are finding new work. Joseph W. Reilly, chief of police of the Fox Film Corporation, is the spon- sor of a plan that the major studios combine in the organization of a film- land “Scotland Yard.” He has urged that ten of the larger studios raise a fund of $100.000 so a far-reaching secret police system could be put into operation. Trained investigators, having access to the so-called “underworld,” wouid be employed, and in this way, Reilly stated, many extortion and abduction plots could be prevented. Meanwhile, Chief of Police R. R. Stec- kel issued orders to his men to “shoot to kill” in combatting kidnapers. The police department, Steckel said, is keep- ing close watch on many former boot- leggers who have been forced out of business as a result of the recent lib- eralization of anti-liquor laws. OTTLEY IDENTIFIES KIDNAPER. ATLANTA, July 14 ) Ottley, president of the First National | Bank, today positively identified a New York police photograph of William De- linski, former sailor and stationery salesman with a long criminal record, as the man wanted as the leader in the banker’s kidnaping. The Fulton County grand jury has returned an indictment agairst “Grover REDUCED BRIEF PRICES YRON S. ADAMS I Never Diaggooims Murder Trusts Are Recruite From “Hungry” Bootleg Gangs With the Galloping Gold of the “Alky” Fountain Missing, “the Boys” Turn to Kidnapings and Killings. What will the bootlegger, accustomed to easy riches, turn to mow? Charles Francis Coe, criminologist, writer of special artcles on crime, author of “Me...Gangster,” “Swag,” “Hooch” and other stories, is di cussing and analyzing the situation and pointing to its solution in a Sertes of three articles, of which this is the second. The third article will appear here tomorrow. BY CHARLES FRANCIS COE. The man most publicized as an underworld character now reposes in' Atlanta Federal Prison. He is the notorious Scarface. He went to prison nof for bootlegging, or for racketeering, or for narcotic trafficking, or for glmbllng} and vice rings, or for murder. He went to prison because he refused to divide | with the Federal Government the proceeds of ! these modern activities. In other words, his crime was evading the income tax. | It is common knowledge that this man had & revenue in good years not far from $150,000,000. Of that he kept vast sums and paid vast sums. It is the experience of this writer that the crook who saves 20 per cent of his gross revenue is a fortunate crook. No crook operates without protection if he operates with success. The cost of that protection is invariably his largest indi- vidual item of operating cost. My guess would | be that it will average 70 per cent of the gross. With the passing of this master gangster one man was reported to have assumed his place in the suddenly darkened sun. This man beceme rmblic enemy No. 1 as soon as the original pos- sessor of that dubious distinction relinquished it for regulation clothes and a less fattening diet. So, presumably, the new public enemy No. 1 should now be a financial giant. He should, | literally, be rolling in millions. He took the place of Croesus Al Capone. But prohibition is just about gone. The galloping gold of the “alky” foun- tain is missing. What becomes of the successor to the millions of his majesty the Scarface? Late reports had him fleeing towagd Mexico while in his clutches writhed the victim of a sensational kidnaping. Bootlegging fails of its old profit. The king bootlegger turns to kidnaping. It seems rather obvious that our earlier suppositions are borne out by the facts. “King” Solemon of Boston built up a revenue said to be about $100,000 a year. He started at bootlegging. Re- = cently he walked into hot lead that|financially. Murder cannot. spelled finis to his career. The source Take St. Paul, Minn. There is a city of the anger which slaughtered him is| never accused of harboring organized generally admitted not to have been ngs as we have come to know them. the old-time liquor feud, but something | Yet one of the recent sensational kid- attributable to newer activities of & | napings took place there. Why? Mark more dire nature. Anyway, he was my words, it was ngt local talent it murdered in his own night club. Three | pe’;‘pelrated that cglmn. "Thee bou;:" | mere boys were tried for the killing. were called in for that. These “boys” There is Chicago. There is Eoston.!lre recruited from the ranks of I)‘he 1 I Charles Francis Coe. | but a series of crimes that left that for nervous strain. The men who kid- naped her were old bootleggers, ac- cording to information accepted by the Ppolice. Had bootlegging remained profit- able they would have continued at the| trade and foregone the kidnaping. De- prived of liquor money, they turned, in accordance with their intelligence, to the muscle business of what they call “the snatch racket.” People know nothing of kidnapings that never get into the papers. This writer knows of three cases of suc- cessful “snatches” in New York City. In each case the victim of the kidnap- ing was a criminal himself. He was caught by others of his kind, ransomed for whatever he had, and turned loose to pile up another amount for future consideration. Each time these crim- inals, well aware of their exact position as hostages, paid through the nose. One said to me: “Did I pay? Lay your last dime I paid! I had 35 grand in bank when they took me. They got it all. Only a sucker would fight them.” Another case reported to me and verified from sources I credit involves a manufacturer of forbidden fruits who 21 $100,000 to kidnapers. These men actually marched him into his bank and stood by, pistols concealed in their pockets, while the victim got the money and handed it over in the presence of the vice president of the bank. The bank official, of course, remained un- aware of the whole procedure in its true significance. “Wh‘g not fight back?” I asked this victim. “You handed over the money, but you know who got it. Why not ht?” “I've a wife and children,” he an- swered simply. “What's money, with their lives at stake?” Jack “Legs” Diamond was a boote legger. He was an interesting one in that, to the best of my knowledge, he was the first of the tribe to lay the urban problem on e suburban door- step. His trip into tiie Catskill Moun- tains wrought not only his own death, | pastoral section in the throes of terror. Men were tortured on the highways; | others were kidnaped. The country | was roused to fever pitch. That sec- tion preferred applejack to the so-called liquors of thelr urban brothers. Juk‘ tried to control the applejack traffic. | Deprived of bootleg money, he had to| replace it some way. War broke out.| Jack died broke. Only recently his widow was found murdered in her bed. “Dutch” Schultz, beer baron of New York’s Bronx, found things slipping in his business. The old profits of boot- legr'ng vanished. He was so often mer ‘oned in connection with crimes | of violence that now he is a fugitive, a cringing craven in fear for his life and | a man for whom the world, upper and | under, has little but scorn. But he was a millionaire when the booze bouncing | was good. ‘There is another traffic in the under- | world which has spread immeasurably during prohibition. It is the vilest, the | most_despicable, the most insidious of all illegal rackets. It is in narcotics. Fundamentally, it differs from booze | + A3 an orgument against long-term sen- tences. It merely explains where the violence comes from in the narcotic traffic. New York City today is going through a series of murders at once ghastly and grotesque. In the metropolitan area some 10 killings have occurred in a month. Four of the men killed were to have been witnesses in the trial of a gang leader charged with tax evasicu. Each of them has since been identified with the narcotic traffic. For several years the question most often asked me has been: “What dif- ference does it make if gangsters mur- der, so0 long as they murder only each other?” There you have the best an- swer to that question I know. These victims, all purported criminals of the ‘worst order and each presumed to be a narcotic addict and peddler, constitute the only evidence the Government can use in court to destroy the vast crim- inal rings that racketize the Nation. The underworld will tell you that all these men were murdered for what they knew, for what thiy might testify in court that would lend itself to cor- roboration. In opening this article I pointed out that the Federal charge was the wire over which Scarface tripped. It was the only one he was unable to beat. Cook County, 1., was his paradise. The State was h-lpless against him. The United States put him into prison. I want to make a point of that again as a predicate for statements to follow. Knowing literally hundreds of crim- inals, I say earnestly and truthfully that every intelligent one shuns ‘“Federal raps” as ne would the plague. In the old days they avoided counterfeiting be- cause it was a Federal offense. They robbed no post offices and they avoided national banks i their robberies. The one fear of coni.lence men has always been the mails. “Don’t write anything crooked and mail it.” I heard the most infamous of them say not long ago. “Ceiting into the mails is getting into a Federal rap. That is the hardest of all to beat. Uncle Sam never forgets. His arm goes from coast to coast. He doesn't extra- dite. He just locks you up wherever he finds you.” Uncle Sam, and Uncle Sam alone, is the hope for law enforcement in this trying era of transition from prohibition to repeal. (Copyright, 1933, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) (The third in this series of articles will appear tomorrow.) 4 A 620 EMERSON ST. N. W. St. Gabriel Parish | (A).—John K. ! A look at Detroit is interesting. De- | troit became a gang center because of | the proximity of Canada and handy | liquor. The infamous Purple Gang took | root there and gave to history some of | its most desperate bandits and Kkillers. | Detroit’s real start as an underworld haven was the business of running booze | |over the roads to Chicago. Then, as | organization and protection conspired to | the more complete rout of law enforce- ment, it ceased to be necessary to run the booze. In Chicago they cooked al- {cohol in tenements and brewed their {own . beer. Almost immediately the | Purple Gang became a murder trust. | They hired out their killers to pull jobs | im other cities. | | Harry Fleisher was mentioned most in | connection with the Lindbergh kidnap- | | ing. There has never been proof { he was implicated. But every cop in | America knows the Purple outfit are | commercial Kkillers. They have made} {murder an instrumentality of commerce. | The result is that they are fading in power. Prohibition sustained them | | Collins” as the man who engineered the kidnaping of Ottley, which lasted | 17-year-old schoolboy, released the | | banker from his bonds and blindfold. | | Bowen also has been indicted and | ‘filisjb_nlnd fixed at $20,000. He is still | ail. Authorities said at the time the in- | dictment was returned that "Groveri Collins” was not believed to be the name of the man, but they did not know his real name and the indictment | read “whose other names are unknown | to the jury.” | We speak of “taking” trips before we go we must first earnings to pay our way. I these outings, then their enj DO display foresight. ‘only a few hours, when Pryor Bowen, | hungry bootleggers of yore. Their ap- pearance in these new crime centers proves that. They are commercial criminals. They will pull a job at & flat rate. Kansas City is a case in point. “Pretty Boy” Floyd, now terrorizing the West as a Jesse James in modern dress, started as a petty booze peddler in Kansas City. He attracted the atten- | tion of local police and left town. Shortly after he took to the smoking pistol and went violent by way of re- plenishing a vanished bootleg exchequer. He kidnaps sheriffs and uses them a hostages to enforce his maddened will upon the people. It is not exaggerating to say that| local police welcome warnings that | dangerous criminals are touring their towns and villages. The warning, in- stead of closing roads to fleeing killers, opens them. What can a rural police- man do against a trained machine gun- Jner? The warned officers seek sanctuary in the jail. The killers ride unhampered. Police in many cities, alarmed by the spread of violent crime, are equipping to meet this condition. Armored cars, trained machine gunners and radio equipment are being adopted. These will win in the long run, not because they are efficacious in the extreme, but because violent crime always defeats it- self. The willingness to protect violent |crime is lacking. The same cop who winked at a bottle of liquor will stand his ground over a deck of heroin or a callous murder for profit. Kansas City saw the flagrant kid- naping of the daughter of its city man- ager. The young woman was ransomed for $30,000. She was unharmed. except A SERIES OF FRIENDLY MESSAGES TO WASHINGTON ‘ N You Can’t TAKE Vacations « + + They Must Be Earned in two major features. First, the average | man abhors it and will, as a decent cit- | izen, do what he can to stop the traffic. So narcotic laws are enforced with com- parative ease. Second, a modest for-| tune in the poison may be transported | in a fountain pen. “Cadets,” as nar- cotic peddlers are called, travel fine trains, use light luggage, and attract no | attention. That is a lot easier than transporting bottled goods by the case or beer by the keg. But the narcotic traffic is great. It is growing greater. The more insidious of the bootleggers of old are turning to this to supply revenue. This is the most violent crime I know. If there is to be a death penalty it should be for the sale of narcotics. These| cadets operate under an organized ring. More and more they become killers. | Long terms are likely to be the order | for “conviction of this crime. 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