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* Chicago File No. 58-19) RER : LAL The ste i aa cite was conducted by Special Agents WALTER Je CuiciNGS, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Continental sate aa B= [llinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, 239 South LaSalle : he Street, Chicago, Illinois, was interviewed on September 29, 1947. Mr-e x acne CUMMINGS advised that the parole of the subjects in this case first came to < we his attention through a newspaper article quoting some of the testimony of = %*. Attorney PAUL DILLON of St. Louis, Missouri, The newspaner stated that PAUL —~ - DILLON had testified that he had gone to Washington at the request of an official of the Continental Bank, Chicago, Illinois, to arrange for the transfer of some of the prisoners from Atlanta, Georgia, to Leavenworth. . Mr. CULEONGS stated that after noticing this article in tha newspavser, he inmediately had a meeting called of all of the officers of the Continental Bank, and ‘asked - them at this conference if any of them had had any business or financial, trans-::: é actions with the parolees and whether or not they were acquainted with PAUL a . DILLON, a St. Louis attorney. Mr. CUMMINGS stated that none of the officers ef was acquainted with PAUL DILLON or with any of the parclees, and that none of.» ¢ the officers had ever been contacted by anyone relative to assistance in ag securing paroles or the transferring of the prisoners. > ne Mr. CUMUINGS stated that the "Chicago Tribune” contacted him after the testimony" . of DIL! ON, and he made the statement to them that none of the officers. of his - bank had had’ any dealings with PAUL DILLON or the parolees. hir. ancHikr Vin, Auditor of the Continental Illinois National Bank. and Trust -. Company of Chicago, was interviewed, and he was requested to search the files ~ of his bank to ascertain whether or not any of the parolees had ever maintained ~ an account or had any transactions with his banke kr. REVIE was given the mean ts and kn lateaw adtsanA that he hat eas eand 2a amah names of the five DaePoLeEs, ana mG zaver aavisea Wiel Ne AaG Causéa a Séarca to be made, and that his bank had no record of any of the parolees ever having" (1) savings accounts; (2) commercial accounts, or (3) safe-deposit boxes. ° Mr. P2VIE was also requested to check the bank's Real Mstate Department, but as it was necessary to have a specific transaction in mind before the files of © the Real Estate Department of his bank could be checked. A ~47 <= . “ae he advised that he could not check the Real Estate Department by name inasmuch. aes + leat he evr Sad “+