Yes. it was ordered by Chicago to have Frank Nash escape from the authorities. Nash had many strong connections with many of the Midwest families. The incident has an ironic twist as it was one branch of the old James-Younger gang killing off another branch.
**All this info is incorrect. Sorry to disagree but Chicago didn't order anything in KC in those days. Kansas City at that time was every bit the machine and power Chicago was. Pendergast and Lazia didn't get bossed by ANYONE.
Verne Miller was the culprit behind the botched escape attempt, and that's all it was a botched escape attempt and nothing else. Miller was a very strange and unpredictable commodity and will be found not long afterwards in a ditch
outside of Detroit after a brush with the Purple gang.
The only old west gang connection is to Henry Starr who pulled the first getaway in a motor vehicle after robbing a bank. There's no connection to the James/Younger gang to this incident at all. Unless you put it in things that happened in Missouri.
