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Te 2 Ere pe cee mee ee Oe ere ee een WR. NATH mR, TOLSO DIRECTOR mA, CLECO em houn EDGAR HOOVE i {) las. eOWwal SPC:DSS - 2. S. Bepartment of Justice ‘ata aGAN, D . @ bint B. a. V ne Quine i ea, CAT 2 : Ayr May 11, 1934. f \ ys i w i MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR, . It is noted in Mr. Hanni's memorandum on page two e states that upon his arrival at the telephone office at Rhinelender, Wisconsin, he and the Agents accompanying him were net by Agent Suran "who advised us to have our guns ready as we might meet Dillinger on the way up there". In the second paragraph on page three Mr. Hanni states that shortly after 10:30 P. M. they Baw & car approaching from the opposite direction at rather high speed and at ebout one-quarter of a mile before meeting "it was a matter of uncertainty as to whether or not this car might be a car of Agents. coming to meet us, or it might have been anything", It later developed that this was the car driven by George "Baby Face" Nelson, who had killed Agent Baum. Mr. Hanni states in the second parégraph on page five, in referring to this incident, that “the writer himself and those accompanying him en route to Bohemia proved to be tripped into a regular death trap. #* Had it not been for the fortunate good treatment accorded the motorist who flashed a spotlight right into the writer's face, four more Agents would, undoubtedly, be not here today". LL 5 — 3 Ux, Yount, of course, indicates in his memorandum that 2 he was perfectly aware of the nature of the assignment and in view of Agent Suran's statement to him concerning the likelihood of oS meeting Dillinger enroute to Little Bohemia no further precaution o could have been taken and his statement to the effect that he was 3 tripped into a regular death trap is without any basis of fect. On the contrary Special Agent in Charge Hanni's actions in seeing the approach of this car were inexcusable, he and the Agents accompanied by hin having ample opportunity to block the road and be in a positiar to protect themselves» DED & INDEXED ka. 24 a q- \- Resp Stig? tL 7 ti.. t aco. ot rn oer | pros aaeFu bat