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ede po meee meee ents ne of aapenie oo He scared me.like J never have been soared before in/life, ma I don't know if it was the smile, the laugh after whichhe — flung hishead up into the: ait; or the fact that be had gotten close to me without my haying Imnow ear me s-was all reported to Agent a yped up in 7-64, and which you, no doubt, nicrofilm COPys _.-_ . ee ee was 12-20-54, - The last letter I had "and he recommended that I correspond directly with Prosecutor Cullitan. But our letter crossed in the mail, as I had then told -- him in my letter of 12-27-54, because of .the type of publicity that was nz out authorities and papers. But I did mail it to Mr. Corrigan when he made the statement, that they would not go out and disapprove themselves after getting the verdict they did. But the Sheppard family is going to need all the help they can get, and I have civen all I can. I most certainly would have sent the report sooner, as I stated in my "enclosure* Ja31l-5 made the crack about"everyoody wanting to get Into » and then Prosecutor Parrino making another public crack about"we have a long list of women, anybody want welcome.” ‘Yell, that just did it. and do what my conscience most certa ’ ~tOl1d me should have been done, he sct I know for a fact that several prominent Cleveland attorneys made the following remark," the police have no proof he committed the crime, but they think he did, So they have allowed the newspapers to put out a slanted viewpoint. So that when he is oS arrested and arraigned, the Public will be ready for his 8 conviction", Surely this ien't the American way of trying a man for a crime, assuring me that he wouldn't have to sta rial, as.they didh't have enough evidence to convict him, But, Mr, Hoover, they did, With a mother taking her life, because of the terrible pit of hopelessness facing her, and a father, apparently dying from abroken heart, surely there if something which vour department, with all their wonderful facilities and abilities could do to help Dr, San, . The adults of the Sheppard family, while I do feel extremely sorry for them too, Yet it is the youngsters, six of them, that will have to put up with a cruel Public, that can be so extremely cruel, all the days of the lives. This is the part that hurts so very much. ; . I know that your department does hot indulge in giving out information when they are working on a case, and I know you are an extremely busy man. But, Kr. Hoover, this is almost killing me, to know that maybe -we could have helped him eae carrer nd that he may have o spen en years o s life in jail. Just because of the type of publics this case got, and my being forbidden to do what I felt I should have done at that time, ‘