Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1933, Page 5

BAILEY UNDER GUNS IN OKLAHOMA JAIL Officials Determined Gang- ster Never Again Will Es- cape With Life. By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, September 5.— Stone walls and steel bars were rein- forced today by keen eyes and ready machine guns to keep the word of Joseph B. Keenan, director of the Na- tion's anti-gangster campaign, that Harvey Bailey, alleged plotter of des- perate crimes, would never again escape Jail with his life. The steel doors of the Oklahoma County Jail clanged shut behind Bailey last night scarcely a dozen hours after his startling escape from the county jail at Dallas, Tex., by means of & pis- tol which Bailey said he found in the mattress of his bunk. The result of his daring break, the only successful one ever made there, was to hasten his removal to Okla- homa City to face charges of plotting the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire, for $200,000, one of the largest ransoms ever paid. The trial is set for September 18. Bailey prob- ably will be arraigned today or to- IMOFTOW. Probe Escape. ‘Meanwhile, authorities Dallas launched an investigation of how Bailey obtained the pistol with which he gained his freedom and saws with which he escaped his solitary cell, en- abling him to surprise a Jjailer and trusty who was bringing his breakfast. Recaptured at Ardmore, four hours after forcing his way from the Dallas jail and kidnaping Turnkey Nick Tresp, Bailey, manacled hand and foot, was brought here by a five-car caravan of Theavily armed officers. Apprehensive of an attempt to free Bailey at Ardmore, following & tip mem- bers of his gang were awaiting him east of there, Federal officers speeded his removal to Oklahoma City, where four other alleged members of the Urschel kidnap ring, already were held. ‘The four are Albert Bates, named as one of the actual kidnapers, and R. G. Shannon, his wife, and son, Armon, on whose Paradise, Tex., ranch Urschel was held for nine days, until the ran- som was paid, and where Bailey later was captured as he lay asleep, a ma- chine gun under his bed. Sighted by Sheriff Sam Randolph of Love County at Martetta, Bailey was captured by Ardmore officers, who were advised of his approach by telephone, after a chase, in which his pursuers fl’x;dtthree shots, none of which took effect. at Made No Resistance. Although he had a heavy-caliber pis- tol under his left thigh, Bailey made no attempt to resist after he wrecked Tresp's car, while speeding through | Ardmore streets to elude the officers. Hale Dunn, Ardmore chief of police, who with Bennett Wallace and Ray- mond Shoemaker, captured Bailey, said Bailey “was as white as paper and he sort of looked at me with a sickly grin on his face and his hands flew up in the air.” An hour before the motorcade set out for Oklahoma City, Earl Scott, automo- bile salesman, reported a well-dressed youth, carrying a violin case, stopped his automobile at the spot where Bailey ‘was captured and forced him at pistol int to drive northward on the main ighway. As another automobile, occupied by two men, approached from a side road, Scott said, the stranger waved a hand- kerchief, ordered him to stop and got into the other car, which sped north- ward. The report was taken to sub- stantiate the tip that friends of Bailey were awaiting him. e On Bailey's wrists as he was brought to Oklahoma City were the blood-flecked handcuffs worn by Frank Nash, outlaw killed at Kansas City along with four officers, when machine gunners ap- parently attempted to free him July 17. Balley is accused in that-slaying, the St. Valentine’s day massacre of seven men in Chicago in 1929, and the world’s largest bank robbery, the $2,000,000 looting of the Lincoln, Nebr., National | Bank & Trust Co., September, 1929, Given Heavy Sentence. He was sentenced to 10 to 50 years’ imprisonment in connection with the $32,000 robbery of a Fort Scott, Kans., bank, but escaped from the Kansas State Prison last Memorial day, with Wilbur Underhill and nine other desperate con- victs, after kidnaping the warden. While in jail, at Dallas, Bailey was quoted as referring to Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, Oklahoma desperado, as “small fry,” an incident which was re- called last night as three men and a woman fled from Enid after a gun bat- tle with officers, leaving a letter in their abandoned car addressed to Balley. It was unsigned, but gave the impression it was written by Floyd. Taunting Bailey with being in cus- tody while “I'm outside,” and scoffing at “tough guys® stealing “a harmless man,” the letter stated: “I don't carry guns around with me to impress any one. I carry them as a dire necessity. * * * I know some day I am going to lose, but when that time comes, 1 will not throw up my hands and rely on brains to get me out. I may be a ‘small-time hister’ and you the | brains of money, a $200,000 tot, still I'm outside while you probably are rack- ing your enormous brain to beat the | chair.” The three men and the woman, re- ported wounded, wrecked three stolen automobiles in their mad dash toward the Kansas border. They last were re- ported near Alva. Okla., where they stole an automobile from & young farmer who stopped to help them out of a ditch. TRUSTY IS BLAMED. Sherift Believes Prisoner Gave Bailey Pistol. KANSAS CITY, September 5 (#).— R. A. (Smoot) Schmid, sheriff of Dal- las County, Tex., said here last night he believed the hacksaw blades and Distol used by Harvey Bailey in his frustrated bid for freedom yesterday had been smuggled to_the notorious outlaw by one of the Dallas jail's 60 trusties The sheriff, 6% feet tall, stopped over here enroute to Dallas by air- plare from Chicago, where he has been —_— THE LINDBERGH LINE Davison Party Escapes Charge _Of Bull Elephant in Jungle Letter to Sons Describes Dangerous and Thrill- ing Two Minutes. Fires Last Shot, Trips and Falls, Upsetting Mrs. Davison, He Says. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 5.—Details of how he faced a charging bull ele- phant with one shell in his gun were related in a letter from F. Trubee Davison, president of the American Museum of Natural History, made public yesterday. Davison, who described the en- counter as “the most exciting and dangerous two minutes I have ever been through,” was hunting with his wife and the Martin Johnsons at Nai- robi, Kenya Colony. On August 3, he wrote in a letter to his sons, which was made public by the museum, the party encountered a herd of 12 or 15 elephants and Davison shot a calfless cow. “Immediately the herd stampeded and milled around in every direction, as they didn't seem to know where the danger was,” he wrote. “But within visiting the Century of Progress Ex- it,” Sherift 5 “The old death cell block in which Bailey was held is on the ninth floor of the building. To enter the cell, three doors had to be unlocked. The door to the block proper is solid steel. “I have all the confidence in the world in my deputies, especially Char- lie Young, the deputy who was first held up by Bailey. Every one who has been within reach of Bailey has been_searched. “The pistol and saw blades must have been taken to the block by a trusty.” COULD HAVE KILLED BAILEY. Chief of Police Tells of Chase in Cap- turing Gangster. BY HALE DUNN, Ardmore, Okla., Chief of Police. (Copyright by the Asoclated Press, 1033.) ARDMORE, Okla., Septemebr 5—I could have killed Harvey Balley, the kidnaper, two or three times when I and my two men, Bennett Wallace and Raymond Shoemaker, were chasing him through the residential and business sections of Ardmore. 1 did think about doing it more than | once, but I was afraid I might shoot Nick- Tresp, the Dallas jailer he had with him, so I held off. I'm glad I didn’t have to shoot him, but since it seems that he is about the “hottest man” in the United States, it is really remarkable that we didn't have to use our guns. If he had made any play for the gun he had, we would have had to let- him have it. We heard early yesterday morning that Bailey had made his e: from Dallas and was on his way north. Then about 10 o'clock Sam Randolph, sherift of Love County, who had found the desperado near Marietta, south of here, sent in a runner to tell us that Bailey was on his way toward Ardmore. ‘We immediately set out. myself, Wal- lace and Shoemaker, on U. S. Highway 70. About 2 miles from Ardmore we passed a green sedan in a little road- side filling station. The attendant was just putting gas in it. We recognized Bailey by his picture and by the license on the car, but we were going too fast and we had to go about 100 yards before we could turn around. He turned around as quick as he saw us, dashing out of the station and back toward Ardmore. We gave chase. Our car was fast and we were right on his heels all of the time. He turned down a residential street and we were right on him. I fired three times, aiming right at him then, but T ‘missed. We dashed on through the residen- tial streets and into the business sec- tion. He turned corners and dodged in and out of traffic trying to evade us. We made half a dozen loops of the busiest part of town before we got to the place where he tried to turn into 2 narrow little street about two blocks from the main business section. - As he did so, his rear wheels swung over and one of the tires went out and a wheel crumpled as it struck the curb- ing. We were right on his heels and as soon as his car hit the curb, I was on the ground, dgun in hand. Wallace ran to one side, Shoemaker to the front and I ran right up to the side of the car where Bailey sat. He was white as paper and he sort of looked at me with a sickly grin on his face and his hands flew up in the air. He made no effort to reach the .44 revolver that was pinned under his left thigh. 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