Dwarf ‘King Kong’ Charged In $3000 Extortion In K. C.
By The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 22. – Herbert Hayes, who federal bureau of investigation agents say, signed an extortion note “King Kong”, although he is only five feet, three inches tall and weighs but 105 pounds, was indicted this afternoon by a federal grand Jury.
Arrested this morning, Hayes was formally Charged by the grand jury this afternoon with using the mails in an attempt to extort $3000 from Alfred R. Wallace, department store official.
W. A. Smith, special agent in charge of the F. B. I. office here, says Hayes, a former Missouri state penitentiary convict, signed a statement admitting he wrote the note. He was found yesterday in the reading room of the public library by federal officers acted on a telephone call from an unidentified informer.