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fai eee en ne a et - fae et ae ad crane ata mAh tan het hat Ta ee %, Atlenta 91-49 Continuing, Bentz atated that Nelson later {informed him thet he, Nelson, Carroll, Nan Meter, Doyle, Fisher end “Freddie” seme em op Bocided to ob the Peoples Savings Bank and that they wanted infor=- > ant to assist them in their preparationss Bentz admitted he fare yy _pished them a set of Indiena license plates which had been issued - ' ¢o him under the name on@entes with the understanding that these oP: plates were not to be use Ain the actual robberye "-Informant ad. A 4 mitted he loaned Nelson a machine gun, @ rifle and the tacks te: 27" prevent pursuit; that he egain "cased" the benk in Grand Haven for. ‘them and aleo prepared the get-away chart but that he did not par ticipate in the actual robbery of this batke ... wt RR : Bentz stated that on the day following the robbery ~- of the Peoples Savings Bank at Grand Haven, Michigan, Nelson came *: _ to him with about $20,000 worth.of Trevellera/Cheques andyeonie; | ee that informant purchased this loot from Nelson for $5,000 less $500,.0 ee the latter amount being the allowance which Nelson made to ‘compensate ot } . informant for the loss of informant'’s machine gun, which ped been ts) aed abandoned during the robberye_ With regard to the disposition of the eae oa ponds and Travellers Cheques which he bad acquired from Nelson, Bentz +“ A te. stated he turned the Cheques over to his brother Ted, who had agreed: . Jacana. to Aispose of them end who actually did diapose of them both in thig country and in Englande Ne ae . Concerning his brother Ted Bentz stated Ted was never “4nvolved in a dank robbery; that Ted lacked the courage. and wag too. ewoak"” to enter a bank "waving @ gun"; that fed was in Long Beach, (2. - Indiana only two hours during the entire Sumer of 1933; that Ted .“: met two members of Nelson's gang during this short visit but that: _ Oe Red did not receive any 4nformation concerning the proposed robbery. rena of the Grand Haven bank and certainly was not requested to partici- | a pate in the robbery of thia bank because no intelligent pank robber °<)> - would enlist an inexperienced man like Ted. Informent further steted me that all the evidence presented against fed in his recent triel at -.2". Grand Haven, Michigan consisted solely of a mistaken jdentifieation =< -: and the fact that Ted had disposed of the Travellers Cheques which wt had been stolen from this benke ee rae soe oF ~ Sot ate ate ‘. a7 ve, ra 1° + s, Continuing, Bentz stated that the bonds which he pur” chased from Nelson end which were pert of the loot of the Peoples. “Savings Bank, were buried by informant and that no one but informant *“-. " Jnows the exact spot 4n which these bonds were hidden, “Asked ‘to fur - pish a description of the place where these vonds were buried, Bentz ae atated that “if you drive from New Buffalo, Michigan toward Michigen” * City, Indiana over highway #12, you'll have to pass highway #20, which >. runs into highway #12 and just about 400 feet before reaching the inter- ° - a3