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Kansas City Massacre — Part 4
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_ *On June 17th, early in the morning, ‘aroma 7:00 o'elock, ‘she’ was :
“in the ear and Mrs, Stites, the wife of another usher, was there talking to
her. The tw of them were engaged in a conversation shen to the west of ‘then
they heard some shooting - or some noise like fire crackers or backfire. ; sate
She described the position in which her car was aa slightly to the east of =:
‘the east entrance to the Union Station. after the shooting began, ‘she look
-@d over in that direction and got out of her car in an effort to see more,
but did not get a particularly good view of anythim. | ghe eaid that in try
ing to get back to her car, after the shooting ms over, she lost one of ber.
shoes, and when recovering this shoe, she straightened up to go to her car 2
and saw an auto coming in her direction ami that she almost ren into ite =
‘She described thie machine as 4 black sedan or coach; she does not know th
make of it or the license it was bearing. She eaid she saw a rather heavy *
get man driving the oar. He was wearing a strew hat and appeared to te ==
tamed, She said she saw another heavy set, well dressed man runing tomrd.
“this car as if to get into it, as the 1 machine, 1 wos ) moving slowly, | ae
the men aid get into the car.
ne She vi owed photographs of sispects end 1 stated “mab te man running
“40 ‘the oer resembled the photograph of Bernard PRAE NNR bat she was unable
‘to make any further identification.* OS ;
o.oo Sige Yemin, the police ‘officer - ‘stationed at the gaion station;
‘was interviewed by Agent Dwight Brantley and stated that he goes to eork.
at 7:00 ofolock mich morning; that on Tune L7th, he got to the station short~
‘Ly before 7:00 ofolock, went into the police room, ‘ehanged from eivilian :
‘@lothing to his uniforn, and immediately entered the concourse of the atatic
and walked out the east door to the platform; that he ‘looked ‘about ‘end av
an armored police car parked to the west of the east en .
‘4n the direction of the parking place of the armored car, a5 his ‘ouriosity -
iwas aroused as to the reason it was at the station, He saw no one ‘about $2
ear ani walked into the station, through the west entrance, in search: ‘ot; |
; “polisanes who might be with the armored car, Finding no. officers, he thes
"qalked through the concourse to the east door and just as he epprnched an y=
> gant oor, he heard some shooting in front of the station. “He proceeded
‘of the east doar on to the sidewalk and got behind an iron post. —
“several men in front of the station around an ‘automobile and it oonared fees!
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