FAILURE OF TRAP

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1933, Page 5

FAILURE OF TRAP

ESCAPE OF KIDNAPPERS

ELABORATE PLOT BY POLICE

AEROPLANE CO-OPERATES

GANGSTER’S CAR WRECKED

BANDITS ESCAPE ON FOOT

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Chicago, Aug. 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 50,000 dollars from Jake Factor, who enlisted the aid of the police. A detective disguised as a messenger boy was given the 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 dipped 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 gangster’s car, but the occupants succeeded in gaining their freedom on foot through the underbush.

It is now stated that only a few bills were given the gangsters for the purposes of evidence if they were caught and not the whole of 50,000 dollars demanded.