Bayless

A man walked into a Los Angeles bank which was insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, exhibited a blue steel revolver and an ordinary leather brief case- with adhesive tape placed where the owner’s initials are usually stamped. The bank manager, while under cover of the revolver and under the command arid threat of the man, took the brief case to the several tellers who dumped money into it. The man then took the brief case, entered a maroon Buick sedan with a 1952 Louisiana license plate numbered 91-209, and fled. A few hours later the car, with doors locked, was located by1 police officers. They forced an entrance, and discovered therein, among other things, a sawed-off loaded shotgun, extra shells, some .38 caliber revolver shells, a bank book bearing the name “John R. Bayless”, and various articles of clothing.

■ The automobile had been purchased in the name of John R. Bayless at Wichita, Kansas, with part payment by bank check signed “John R. Bayless”. The Louisiana rear • license plate' bore Bayless’ finger prints.

Early next morning Bayless was arrested in New York as he was- leaving a Los Ang.eles-to-New York plane. He was carrying a brief case similar in…