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eas eee ye tes ‘ ALE 2 SETS AUERD, :- «AR att, wy . Pred one c,h oe tt ale tee . oO LEPsuEr swine m0 BuARATION REWiALS FALSE oh tefe le balen was reacled that ui cies to Colonel Foby :eCorni “ba taste - “\ secured a confeasion frou - 2 Peenah and lees Meenas Haneewnt ra. We 3 466s C6 EK SS OEE Wwe Se ee TS tow awe gutnitted te the FBY Laboratory and the investigation of this was handled by the i * 9-10 % During the course of isvestiration, agents of the th: Office © the effect that had written extortion Letters adcre te ¢ Fovert Z, KoCormiick, Doris Crema, . (The letter to tre, Reosevel’i moe not * - _ Cecrst Services.) Esch of the lettera sutmaitted for. tion in the Laboratory threatenad to harm the recipients and was signed me _ nn, Handwriting specinens a are DY culmitted to the Fpl Laboratory and the concluaion was did not write the sub- mitted extortion letters. When confronted by acents of the Chicago Office with the statement that differences were found in hie handwriting, the subject . . ryaterically ineteted he had written the mestioned letters, saying that they ‘fF Sewe 49 eee, ree = See were written under the influence of liquor and that hie hand had been bound by rubber hose {n order to discuisethe writing. Purther specimens wore taken with the subject's hand bound by rubber hose, but exarination of these specimens by the FET Laboratory resulted in the sane concluaion, namely, that the subject did not write the extortion letters. a It 19 interesting to note that the suspect, expreseced great deal of curiosity as to whether the handwriting tion FBI - . ratory hed shown that he had written the questioned letters. Shen qiestioned res Se as Erne os es —— a rerarding a statenent “nade to a representative of the Cricaro Tribune that bis wife had the letters written by a young girl, he stated he jd cone to the con clusion thet the girl had written the notes by secing a Christuas card aligned by the girl and the hanteriting agepred Sieniica) with that of tho questioned letters. . Later he confessed that he had ET voce! the lettors becaise her handwriting resenbled his own. or to this confession, hovevor, MRE nformed the agent that he was endeayoring to find out who hed written the Ictters. He stated that he had made a test of hisself and taken e few drinks to seo if he could remezber writing tho notes — that be often remnbered things wi.tle érinking ae ee a ot that he could not ronenber when sobers siotor=in-law of the suspect nation in the Laboratory and the eee rer y Cage any er Dewey Bae eh ee STOOLS Ve GxALOrio letters adibressss be Wj Toowell and CG. Tranch. A confession secured stating that the subject had dictated fan: nr specinens of vere suisit ° eel 7 « se =. <3 Pees Me we, Ae TO ee me