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OR aE SS DE OE OT OC IN TORN SSL Sn LE DS EEE DO RTL SEE Ce atin! e ..f N 5 in Atlanta 91-49 DETAILS: Sergeant P. L. Hutson, Detective Bureau, Michigan State Police, East Lansing, Michigan, Chief of Police : Lawrence DeWitt, of Grand Haven, Michigan, and this Agent interviewed meters syns __ Edward Wilhelm bentz, #48025, at the United States Penitentiary, | At- As - a lenta. Sergeant Hutson, who conducted the interrogation of Bents,*” ‘informed Bentz that the State Authorities of Michigan possessed suf: _, -fLeient evidence to definitely involve him in the robbery of. the” ~ Peoples Savings Bank of Grend Haven, Michigan on August 18, joss: Sergeant Hutson advised Bentz that it he would furnish detailed in=..., formation concerning his participation in the robbery of. the Grand”: Haven Bank and disclose the identity of his associates, the State ~:. of Michigan would decline to prosecute him and that the information - is furnished by him would never be used in Court against him, tut that: if he refused to make the desired disclosures, the Attorney General: of the State of Michigan would request the Attorney General of the © United States to permit Bentz to be removed from the Atlanta Peniten=, tiary to Grand Haven, Michigan, for trial in the State Courts and .:”: that a Grand Haven jury would not require more than five minutes +8, _ Convict Bentz on the evi dence already accumulated. . # .: s, : NS tate Rw. oe! at ain, : Bentz ‘replied that he had ‘alteaay made a lengthy aa statement to the Agents of the New York Burem office; that he has * =. - confidence in the Agents of the Bureau and feels certain that the information which he furnished would be treated confidentially by the Bureau and would not be broadcast in the newspapers. Sgt. But eon immediately assured Bentz that the information which he might —.0c.°77 - . Gisclose during the present interview would be treated confidentially eee by the Stete Authorities in Michigan and that not one word would tind » Ate. way to the newspapers. ee i Se a be _ ~ Upon being thus assured Bentz stated 25 that neither he por his vrother Ted, who is at present serving a life sentence in the ‘Michigan State Penitentiary at Marquette, Michigan, for participation in the whbery of the Grand Haven bank, had anything to do with the . actual robbery of this bank; that about’ Decoration Day of 1933, infor. mant moved into a cottage on the shores of Lake Michigan at Long Beach, Indiana; that during Jaze and July of the sane year, Baby Face Nelson, © : TonrGerroll, Homenyar\eter, Earl Doyle, "Chuck" Fisher and a fellow”: called "Freddie", had two fingers of his right hand amputated and who was later found murdered in Melrose Park, Illinois,’ moved into 2. , Cottages at Long Beach; that Nelson approached informant : ‘soncerning. .? i. Dank in‘that vicinity which would be Yeasonably safe and profitable to rob; that informant, who ‘bad “cased” the Peoples Savings Bank - i :° Grand Haven, Michigan the year before, advised Nelson that this | the caer hese: .:_ Would probably be what he wanted. (.~ <-vaues ict wi at bE