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JOHN EDGAR HOOVER -@ Woe PELL __ DIRECTOR a os July 8, 1933. crecaee cee “MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR, 8 I have just telephoned -Vetterli at Kansas City with regard ~ *.,.: to the A. P, dispatch this morning referring to the taking into ~~: custody of James¥Sammons Yesterday afternoon a wire was received from Kansas City ‘asking for the record of this man. It was given - - ‘as per the attached. Vetterli states, in amplification of informa fptle tion received yesterday afternoon, that in connection with the. = = telephone tap upon a certain house in Chicago information was re : ceived that a certain man there wanted two trousers from the = 2. i:.: cleaners immediately as he had to leave tom. Deputies of the ... Sheriff's office covering Kansas City and two. Agents of the Bureau ™: ee immediately went to the house, the Deputies of the Sheriff's office SP entering and taking into custody James Sammons. Chicago and Joliet ~~‘ were conminicated with end Chief of Detectives Shoemaker of Chicago ~ stated that this man was wanted in Chicago for robbery and as one _ of the'public enemies.” Shoemaker also said he understood he was...) =) wanted in Baltimore for robbery. There is apparently no connection ©": a with the Union Station killing on the pert of this individual. -Vetterli steted that the A. P. dispetch was very mich garbled; thet he made ~ >">... ‘mo announcement in this case; that the newspapers told him that they et had gotten their information as to the apprehension of Sammons from oe am Chicago and he simply told them that Sammons hed been taken into | 7 custody by the local Sheriff's office on 1 Suspicion and was being held. - wy