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Kansas City Massacre — Part 8
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During the course of this investigation various parties interviewed at Kansas
City, Missouri, have stated that they secured automobile license ‘pumbers of the
Chevrolet car which was s0en departing from the Union Railroad Station and:
believed to have been used by the slayerse Conflicting statements as to the .
Jicense numbers have been secured from witnesses, who in each instance wore Fl!
Gnable to give the definite numberes put stated that they hed turned ‘over the |
4n formation originally to the Kansas Citys Missouri, Police Department, peing
unable to furnish the names of the officers to whom they gave the mombersbe |
Investigation through the Police Department developed thet these numbers were .
not preserved ani no definite license mumber 18 knows a check of ell licence | -
pilates of numbers similar to those tentatively mentioned by the witnesses = we
4{nterviewed has failed to develop any {nformation of value OB et 3
A& photogra of Vernon Ce Miller has been displayed to the entire group of ;
witnesses mentioned in both reference reporte from the Kansas City office who oe
beheld the occurrance at. the Union Station and who were present at that place .
- during hours preceding the slaying of the officerde Hone of these witnesses
bave been able to definitely {dentify Miller from the photograph except samel
Link, who 18 mentioned in the reports as having been an eye witness to the
shootings Mre Link positively gdentifies Miller as the md whom he saw using
_ @ machine gun in the slaying of the officerse His statement is not definite es
$o detailae However, he does identify Miller as having participated in the
actual slaying and also identified Harvey Baileys It is believed that he can
be relied upon to {dentify Subjects Miller and: Bailey, at such time 48 those --~
Subjects are in oustodye -_ a ae a
It should be pointed cut here that the ‘photograph of Miller which is ‘evaileble -
for {dentification was taken ten yers 660s Herbert Farner, who knows Miller i
personally has stated to Special Agent in Charge Jones that the photograph nn
of Miller 1s not a likeness which would be readily jaentified, unless @ ee
witness wore acquainted with Miller, since he has chan ged considerablye ‘Bis
hair is somewhat thinner, his face fuller and his features considerably aged.
since the time the photograph was takene , oly Poa ss, ;
Link's qaentification of Miller is strongly corroborated by the statements
later quoted herein of MrBe Nash and Mrse Farmer, who 6ay that the telepone ers
calle from the Farmer residence at Jopling Missouri, were mate to one Verne 2a...)
anf referred to the liberation of federal prisoner Frank Neshe Telephone - LS
records rhdicating that the number ealled from the Farmer residence was oe Soe
Jackson 7075 and further showing that Jackson 7075 was the telephone of Vernon — .
C. Miller, aliss Vince Ce Moores show beyond & doubt that the calle were - :
received by Miller in view of the other facte mentionsde Mrse Nash and Mrse
Farmer also indicate that the individual named Verne, *ho wes called originally
at Jackson 7075, made the call to the Fermr residence. around midnight on
6-16-38 and that the party calling at thet hour wae the same individual with
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