CHICAGO GANGSTERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1933, Page 7

CHICAGO GANGSTERS

A DRAMATIC ENCOUNTER. [by CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] CHICAGO, August 16. Two gangsters believed to be members of a widely ramified kidnapping gang, made a sensational escape from an elaborate trap laid by Federal agents armed with machine guns. The gangsters had demanded a further fifty thousand dollars from Jake Factor, who enlisted the aid of the police. ‘A detective, disguised as a messenger boy. was given money to take to a roadside resort. When he paid the money over, he was to give a signal to an aeroplane, which, in turn, was to radio the police to block all roads in the vicinity. The kidnappers took the money, and started away in an automobile. The aeroplane broadcast a warning, when the pilot dropped low, and started firing at the automobile with a machine gun. Meanwhile a score of police in automobiles went into action, and fired upon and wrecked the gangsters car, but the occupants succeeded in gaining their freedom on foot, through some underbrush. It is stated that only a few bills were given the gangsters for the purpose ot evidence, if they were caught, and not the whole fifty thousand dollars demanded.