The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 4

i THE SALT LAICS TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST 1938 ft Union Urged To Fight AFL Resolution Ready for Smelter Meet Writer Recounts Death Of Floyd Inside Story Reveals How Government Men Surrounded Murderous Bandit in Chase Through Ohio Cornfield morning of June IT 1933 as they arrived In Kansas City Mo from Hot Sprtngar Arkwhers they had captured Nash When the officers started to get into waiting automobiles in front of the station'' three men opened fire with machine guns killing Special Agent Raymond Caffrey Chief of Police Otto Reed of McAlester Okla and Detectives Ilernlanson and Grooms of the Kansas City police Nash also was killed in the picked a photograph of Floyd as that of one of the killers It was learned moreover that Floyd and his pal Adam Richetti had driven into Kansas City the previous night in the car of a salesman whom they had kidnaped after abandoning a stolen car in which they had kidnaped the sheriff of Bolivar Mo The most damning piece of evidence linking Floyd with the crime Hoover sent word back to Floyd that such a proposition was out of the uestlonr -that he and his men intended to make Floyd sooner or later pay the full penalty of the law for the merciless massacre at Kansas City Three times thereafter Floyd sent similar propositions to Hoover and each time the latter flatiy ejected them with a curt: "We bargain with gangsters and Hoover ordered his men to "intensify their hunt for Floyd and Richetti but it can be said definitely that at no time were on or to orders issued to the men by Hoover or anyone else During this time Floyd and Richetti with two girls who had been in shooting scrapes with them in Ohio in years past had been hiding out in a respectable apartment house in Buffalo The men seldom ventured out of the apartment Neighbors afterward said '-i' rtf 4 tr I The police officer pretended he a workman en route to a near-l fctryvbutFloyArefujed cept this explanation and called to Richetti Who had awekpned'tto him have it A brief fUn battleenaued with Richetti And Floyd tunning down a hill' None of ths bullets took effect but Richetti- having emptied his gun surrendered Floyd escaped intothe woods believing his captive was a tramp the officer took Richetti to the police station where ho gavo a fictitious and identified Floyd as of Toledo" Recognized Killer Sheriff Long of Steubenville- who had become familiar with appearance through photographs supplied by the men dropped into tho Wellsville police station on another matter while Richetti was being- questioned He recognized him immediately and called him by name Richetti thereupon admitted bla identity The Wellsville officer then identified companion asFloyd Sheriff Long notified the Cincinnati office of the and the federal forces promptly swung into action Inspector Samuel Cowley was In the vicinity in connection with the Stoll kidnaping investigation Special agents proceeded to the East Liverpool airport by plane where Sheriff Lohg met them East Liverpool police were enlisted in the manhunt Woods were searched and roads blocked Jumped From Car Learning that a man answering description had asked for lunch at a farmhouse near East Liverpool the agents and East Liverpool officers proceeded to the farm About 4 Monday October 22 1934 as this squad was making a systematic search of farms in that vicinity Floyd was seen in an automobile which a farmer was starting to drive from behind a corn crib on the farm of Mrs Ellen Con-kle He had asked' to ba driven to Youngstown When Floyd spied the officers he ordered ths farmer to back the car up behind tho crib Floyd jumped front the car as it backed up dashed past an outbuilding across an open field and over a ridge toward nearby woods The agents and police pursued The slaying by department of Justice agents of Charles Floyd who had notched his watch 10 times to keep tab on his killings caused accusations that the agents killed in "cold and resulted in an under-cover investigation of the activities by members of the secret service Here is the real story of Floyd as obtained the secrit ftles of the 1 one of a series of articles on the men's battles with public enemies i By BEX COLLIER Copyright by North American Newspaper Alliance Inc WASHINGTON Aug Charles Floyd who notched his watch 10 times to keep tab on his killings feared death in the electric chair far more than he did bullets of the men He weighed the prospects of both chose the latter The result Was inevitable under the circumstances FOR SALE SO-h Wntlurlmn A Me tor no voitl eo eyrie 3 phate 1 170 Style 371819 WeetlnflioeM Auto tarter 3S to SO 220 volte 00 cycle 3 pbaae etortlny perto 15 eee-end Style 254776 General FSectrie Tnunfnmere -37A a oU tapoelty 87 callout Switch board 14 10-Inch 8 Sulllvaa Air Compreeoort Air receiver Title equipment raa betieea at Ar tetlaa Park la Ofdek Valley la-ulr Ofdca City Water Department Ofdea Ctah IRWIN Ai kept Watewrerke Federal bureau of Investigation agents have been accused of shooting him in the back in "cpld There were rumors among critics of the bureau that Floyd fell on his knees and begged for mercy as ruthless agents poured lead into his body It has' been reported Floyd repeatedly offered to surrender before men -caught up with him but that Edgar Hoover rejected the offers and ordered his men to "kill Floyd on4ight" Considerable Sympathy There is no doubt there was Considerable sympathy in scattered places for this notorious outlaw and killer from the Cookson hills Yet this was the man yho coolly turned a gun on agents and police in the Kansas City Union station massacre and then cut four more notches on his fob and watch and who killed kidnaped and plundered his way to the top of the list of public enemies The record of Floyd's crimes provides a gory chapter in the books of the federal bureau of investiga' tion Finis was written to that story when a squad of agents and police shot Floyd fatally in an Ohio corn field on the afternoon of October 22 1934 The true details of that shooting and the events immediately preceding it have been unfolded to me by the I so that the public may judge whether Floyd's death was Hunt Begins men began their hunt for after the ambush-jng of four officers and their prisoner Frank Nash early on the 01 5 chettT found on a beer bottle at the home of Verne Miller who was chief plotter of the massacre It was known that Floyd and Richetti were inseparable Cooperation Sought Cooperation of police in various parts of the country was enlisted in the hunt for Floyd and Richetti Everywhere that this pair was known to have surveillance was instituted Richetti had relatives in Ohio and the men obtained the aid of Sheriff Ray Long of Steubenville Ohio in keeping watch on a house it was thought Richetti might visit Months passed' Floyd was re ported in nearly all parts of the often at the same time All tips and leads however minor were run down by the tireless agents Here are the facta on Floyd's offer to surrender An emissary of Floyd relayed to Hoover what he claimed was a message from the fugitive The emissary explained he did not know wherl Floyd was but that "Pretty was willing to giving himself up if the government would promise not to send him to up and down the floor at night as though pacing restlessly After staying in Buffalo more than a year the pair grew increasingly restless and decided to venture back to their native Oklahoma hills With the girls they set out from Buffalo about the middle of October 1934 in a newly purchased car Head for Ohio They headed first for Ohio where lived Floyd and Richetti alternated at the wheel Floyd was driving through a rainstorm on the outskirts of Wellsville Ohio early on the morning of October 20 when the car skidded into a telephone pole Floyd and Richetti took their guns and baggage out of the car and sent tha girls into Wellsville to have repairs made to the car which was not seriously damaged A resident of the community several hours later saw Floyd and Richetti lying on the grass in a field not far from the scene of the accident He thought they were tramps and telephoned to police headquarters at Wellsville When a police officer appeared the electric chair The emissary de- in civilian clothes Richetti was $0 -iJ W-i it isCiIv 'A- -v th i -4 yifs c4fii f'f -ha II I 1 i- A Ltlf fl'y 'V they often heard someone walking asleep on the grass end Floyd was seated near him Floyd jumped up leveled a pistol at the officer and ordered the latter to "stick' A' i'b ft III 4:: tr' dared Floyd was willing to take his chances on a sentence to prison but he had an overwhelming fear of the VjAA' 5 -if DENVER Aug resolu tion urging member of tho International Union of Mint Mill and Smelter Workers to support Industrial unionism ths dictatorial and coercive despotism of tho executive committee of tho Federation of awaited action by the am annual convention hers Thursday The union is among tho 10 labor organizations threatened with suspension from the A' of within the next 30 days un less they renounce as advocated by John Lewis United Mine Workers" president and his committee fop industrial organization Tho resolution has been referred to the organization committee and members of that group would not say what action they had taken However it is expected to come up for discussion by tho delegates before the (lose of the convention Saturday Is described in tho resolution as inadequate to modern mass production him nd commanded him to surren-der Floyd's response was a gesture of defiance He may have been thinking of that electric chair Instead of stopping he whipped out a 43 caliber automatic pistol was carrying and chew to fight it out The agents fired first Floyd was running to seek protection of a dense woods With his head and shoulders turned toward the officers he flourished his gun The agents paused and aimed their guns They knew that to permit him to gain-the woods would give him an advantage which doubtless would result in the loss of ths lives of several agents He fell mortally wounded with his pistol fully loaded still in his hand Ths other pistol a 45 caliber automatic was in his belt An xtra clip was in his pockets Floyd was shot at 4:10 and ho died in the Conkla house at 4:25 He admitted his identity just before he breathed his last Ho refused to answer further questions With his dying words he cursed his captors Ths notched was found attached to his watch On this fob and at three places on the watch were found groups of 10 murder record Photographs of the watch and fob are bn exhibition in the an object lesson peen daily by young and old who visit the headquarters of the men Leader Lauds Alaska Colony Sees Matunuska Venture as Defense Plan SEATTLE Aug 6 (JPi Representative Byron Harlan (D Ohio) returning from Alaska Thursday hailed the Matanuska colony as a move end said he would recommend tho expansion of ths equipment and activities got to build up Alaska agriculturally to support a larger he said is plainly a national defense The congressman made the trip for the department of commerce He will report his findings at Washington Commissioner of Fisheries Frank Bell and Colonel Charles March Chairman of tho federal trade commission returned with Harlan on the bureau of fisheries boat the Brant The congressman said a measure of the success of the Matanuska activities might be seen in ths move by all ths farmers in the district outside the colony to join their cooperative "The colony has a long waitlng of families who want to fill Harlan said also is already a market in ths Alaska fail-road belt which will take six times as much produce as ths colony can Colorado Plans Finish Of 40 in 1937 DENVER Aug 8 Governor Ed Johnson said Thursday A highway 40 between Denver and the Utah state line would be completed under the $25000000 road building program begun this year Johnson mads ths statement to Preston Peterson of Provo vice chairman of the Utah road commission Ths 213 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