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Was a famous gangster shot in Kansas City during the thirties?
Just watched Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and it reminded me vaguely of a story I heard about a gangster being shot at the train station in Kansas City. Anybody heard of it?
The Kansas City Massacre, or Union Station Massacre, occurred on June 17, 1933. Frank "Jelly" Nash, a convicted mail train robber and sometime member of the Barker-Karpis Gang, was being returned to Leavenworth, from which he had escaped three years earlier, when would-be underworld rescuers attacked the two carloads of lawmen guarding him with machine guns. A federal agent, Raymond J. Caffrey, two Kansas City police detectives, Frank Hermanson and William J. Grooms, and Orrin H. (Ott) Reed, Chief of Police of McAlester, Oklahoma, were all killed in the attack, as was Nash himself.
The shooting only lasted a minute or so and was witnessed by many people, with myriad confusing accounts as to what actually happened. Some witnesses claimed that one of the officers in the car actually shot Nash, rather than hand him over, which would possibly explain the sudden and otherwise unnecessary machine gun attack. Ballistic and photographic evidence has also been cited by author Robert Unger to suggest that some of the damage was actually done from within the car by an inexperienced young federal agent attempting to operate an unfamiliar shotgun. Nash was also, for some unexplained reason, sitting in the driver's seat of one of the cars and it is also possible he was not recognized by his rescuers, as his appearance had been somewhat altered over many months in hiding.
The Massacre spurred new legislation from Congress resulting in increased federalization of crime control and largely creating the modern FBI, which hastened the end of the marauding interstate bands of bank robbers then terrorizing the nation.
The alleged gunmen in the Kansas City Massacre were Verne Miller (murdered by other gangsters in Detroit, November 29, 1933), Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd (killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio, October 22, 1934), and Adam Richetti (captured in Ohio just before Floyd and subsequently executed, October 7, 1938, in the gas chamber of the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri).
Note to "advocate": The Union Station Massacre occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas. What's more there have been plenty of murders in Kansas. Ever heard of "In Cold Blood"? The BTK Killer? The Dalton Gang? Just a few well known examples.
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