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Kansas City Massacre — Part 8

199 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 197 pages OCR'd
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"$1000.00 bills ~ Federal Reserve Bank, Chicagot . . fication, revealed that he has the following known criminal record: |. 600003774 4 Ts a , The above serial numbers on the $1000.00 and $500.00 bills, which were taken down by Agent Allen, were telephonically trans- ~ mitted to Special Agent in Charge Purvis at Chicago, with the request that they be checked up, as it was believed that same may be part of Te the ransom money of the kidnaping of Hamm at St. Paul, Minnesota. > - “Mr. Purvis was also furnished with the numbers of the © .38 Special Police Posttive Colt Revolvers, which were found in the - personal effects of Of Hara, with request to ascertain their origin. - 7k ' (he serial numbers, Which appear on these two revolvers are 4B follows: | 4402606 and 496 70b 7 It may be steted that, upon examination of these two —. guns by the writer, it was established that one of then had recently been fired, while the other seamed to have deen unused. O'Hara Vir gorously denied that either of them had ever been fired, and stated =~ that they were brand new guns. Se re O'Hara was fingerprinted, and a copy of seme wast. immediately forwarded to Washington via air pail and Special Delivery, = with the request thet the Kansas City office be telephonically or tele- . graphically advised of the results. Te : I Fy . on July 7, 1933, Mr. Harold Nathan, assistant Director, advised this office by telephone thet O'Hara's fingerprints, upon classic red As Janes Sammons, No. 883, received from Chicago at the Illinois State 7 Poritentiary, Joliet on June 16, 1004, for life sentence, ‘charge - murder. | Escaped from that institution on June 10, 1017 and returned on October 4, ' 1917. as Jobn Nolan, No. 28167, received, fram Chicago, ‘at U. S. Penitentiary, ‘Leavenworth, Kansas, on August 12, 1927; charge - conspiracy to violete © Internal Revenue Act; sentenced 18 months.
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