Vernon C. Miller
Identified by the FBI as the leader of the gunmen at Union Station on 17 June 1933 and named with Richetti and Floyd in a federal conspiracy indictment concerning the custody of Frank Nash; the FBI says his body was found near Detroit on 29 November 1933. No conviction of Miller exists in the records filed.
- Died
- 1933
- Aliases
- Verne Mason, Verne Moore, Verne Miller
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 17 June 1933 — The FBI says its investigation developed evidence that the Union Station attack was carried out by Vernon C. Miller, Adam C. Richetti and Charles Arthur Floyd, and that Miller, age 37, "had led the killings" (FBI History essay).
- 1934 — W.D. Mo. indictment No. 12777 names "Vernon C. Miller, alias Verne Mason, alias Verne Moore" with Adam Richetti and Charles Arthur Floyd in a conspiracy concerning Frank Nash (National Archives item 24734664). A charge, not a finding.
- 29 November 1933 — The FBI says that "during the FBI's search for Miller, his mutilated body was found in a ditch on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan" (FBI History essay).
For the shooting, this page says only “identified by the FBI.” The Bureau’s attribution was not tested in a trial of Miller, who was dead before any trial. No role or family is entered. The indictment names him with aliases; the FBI essay calls him Verne Miller. The FBI essay dates the finding of his body, not his death, so the died field gives the year only.
Records
itemKansas City Massacre and "Pretty Boy" Floyd (FBI history page)The FBI's history essay on the June 17, 1933 shooting in front of Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, in which four officers and their prisoner Frank Nash were killed. It places the car directly in front of the station's east entrance.
itemUnited States v. Adam Richetti (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS101: indictment No. 12777The first page of the 29-page W.D. Mo. case file is an indictment charging Adam Richetti, Charles Arthur Floyd alias 'Pretty Boy' Floyd, and Vernon C. Miller alias Verne Mason alias Verne Moore with conspiring to violate federal law concerning the custody of Frank Nash, an escaped Leavenworth prisoner.
itemUnited States v. Adam Richetti (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS101: indictment No. 12777The first page of the 29-page W.D. Mo. case file is an indictment charging Adam Richetti, Charles Arthur Floyd alias 'Pretty Boy' Floyd, and Vernon C. Miller alias Verne Mason alias Verne Moore with conspiring to violate federal law concerning the custody of Frank Nash, an escaped Leavenworth prisoner.