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| , Office Memorandum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : SAC pare, 10-24-51 “BEWJAMIN (BUG8Y) STEGEL, “. Be 7 Miscelilansous . Bae Bow, wet eae ~ Remylet 9-25-51 (62~2637-968) to Chicago and reply 10-19-51. | Investigation in the URAP-MURBER CASE agaIns] Joveloned thn wes a subject in a Bureau ¢ Fucitive, @FI3 peal or n searching hie apartment they found a loaded ss d ~ caliber carbine, SN 506459, .* gwhich wa the Chiqago FBI office. Federal complaint againet eines wa ed at Chicazo on 4-1~50 ewas no ~ en cation at thet time as being identical wit Thus there -, “a8 no reason to have test specimen fired from the carbine. was 4 suspect -dn the SIEGEL murder, which took place in 1947. - tee - Ae stated 4 ation with ~' earned e thou! 8 FEL laboratory had checked the gun foun ‘bili apartment in Chicsgo against the cartridge cases found at the eacene of the . SIEGEL mirder. The writer did not think that was correct and” br 6 with the PBI laborctory a . On 10-24-5} the writer talked to told him that the FBI — Laboratory Waa never tested the carbine found apartment in Chicago. He said he thought he had learned recently tha 8 pr end incorrec| such test has now been made. Me phoned above mentione sen che ou $ are nd ag the carbine ‘an the Siegel case, told him that vcrprar cas thtth test sapecinen from the carbine, which specimen’ had been chacke y eone istics laboratory were not eimilar to those found at the Siegel murder scene. ke told wit: he considera the Siegel murder solved through the recent murdere of -. TONY BRANCATO and TONY TROMBINO in Los Angeles. re hte -No further action need be taken on the ca 62-2837 rbine at Chicago. “oat SEARCHED._..-...INDEAED. 4-7. SERIALIZED. CACAEILED. Men, OCT 8 G10! Ful - LOS ANGELE-