His father, John "Pappy" Nash, started hotels in several southern towns, including Paragould and Jonesboro (Craighead County) Arkansas, and Hobart, Oklahoma.
[2] In May 1911, he was charged with burglary again,[3] this time for the bungled attempt in March of that year to crack safes and empty cash registers at four stores in Gotebo, Oklahoma.
Wartman fled to Texas after the trial, spending two years there before returning to his mother's farm near Hobart, and on March 5, 1913, he visited the town itself.
After some drinking, Huber and Nash lured Wartman to a remote area of Hobart under the pretext of getting his help selling stolen silks.
Once the three were seated, according to the March 13, 1913, edition of the Hobart Republican, Wartman was "shot at close range with a 32 or 38 caliber pistol, the ball entering the right temple and coming out over the left eye."
Blinded but alive and conscious until his death a few weeks later, on March 28 of that year, Wartman implicated Huber and Nash in his murder.
Many sources claim that Nash hoped to falsify the date on the marriage license to provide him an alibi for the time of the train robbery.
Nash escaped to Chicago, Illinois,[10] where he fell in love with a barmaid named Frances Luce and continued his criminal activities, now in the major cities of the United States.
On June 15, 1933, two Oklahoma City Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, Joe Lackey and Frank Smith, learned that Nash was in Hot Springs.
Accounts differ regarding who fired first, but what is known is that in the end, Nash was killed, as were Reed, FBI agent Raymond Caffrey, and Kansas City Police detectives W. J.
Floyd, who became "Public Enemy Number One" after the July 1934 death of John Dillinger, was killed by the FBI in Ohio in October 1934, denying to the end any involvement in the massacre.
However, Richetti was arrested in Ohio, tried and convicted for the Kansas City Massacre shootings, and executed in Missouri's gas chamber on October 7, 1938.
Prompted by the massacre, in January 1934, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed FBI agents to be armed and gave them the authority to make arrests.