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pir nireren neta ~2- Lansing, Kansas, When Caffrey and J talked with Bailey at police headquarters, immediately after his apprehension last July, he admitted that he was acquainted . with Nash, but, of course, would volunteer nothing further. He professed to be a member of a liquor-running crew between Chicago, Illinois and Oklahoma City, Okiehoma, and advanced that as reason for hie having been in possession of the. bond later identified as having been taken in the Fort Scott, Kansas bank robbery for which Bailey was subsequently convicted. You may also recall that an attorney named Smith who was to have defended Bailey, but for some reason failed to do #0,. was murdered by unknown persons within two days after Bailey's conviction. Smith, | understand was a Tulsa attorney catering exclusively to criminals of the gang = strata. During the further investigation, after the apprehension of Holden and Keating, a relentless search was made to locate one Bernar@rhillips, alias Phil Courtney, a former Leavenworth convict who was on the golf course when Holden and Keating were apprehended, but was not playing with them and at the “time we did not have any information concerning him, The woman with whom he was living and who claimed to be his wife, one Ma rawford, alias fnnie-Winkle alias Mary. Courtney, Wae taken snto custody together with the Holden"and Keating women and she was questioned at length, but refused to divulge any information whatever - goncerning herself or Phillips, However, the investigation disclosed, and the ‘Bureau and Kansas City files. will show that Phillips is a dangerous criminal, He . 4s wanted by the Minneapolis! police for the robbery of a bank there in March, 1932, at which time he, with six others, procured two hundred thousand doliars in cash, and there ie a thousand dollar reward for his apprehension. The investigation further disclosed that Phillips ie very close to Holden and Keating and that he is a killer mibly; he being hired to do all the shooting that is necessary to the gang's welfare. Re was a former Minneapolis or St. Paul motorcycle patrolman; had service during the World War as & Machine-Gunner and, if I recall correctly, he is 7 said to be somewhat mentally unbalanced; knows littie or nothing more than the - i use of a machine-gun at which he is most adept. In this connection I recall that the woman employed by the Travelers’ Aid Society, Union Station, Kansas City, in | a press dispatch, was quoted as saying that one of the men in the gang was rather large and that it was he who, she believed, might have been wounded or fell as the gang mde ite getaway, but managed to pick himself up and get into their car. There is a ossibility that the mn ehe had r fe: | of Bernard Phillips. I sincerely believe that’ he has been with Nash continuously ‘ since Keating and Holden were apprehended and as soon as he learned that Nesh had been apprehended he, together with the other members, and possibly by instruction of Harvey Bailey who, I believe contacted Rash immediately after his escape from Lansing, came to Kansas City determined to retrieve Nash and to kill any and all who opposed theirn demands. _ oe ot i P tion e 1 pete if Phillips and Bailey can be Located thet some of value w procured, Of course not through them, but I feel that they » or at feast Phillips, may poesibly be identified by one or more of ___ fae witnesses to the tragedy, for I don't believe any one would mistake Phillips.