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‘mentioned. ° . ccewttan hoe . 2 ibe ata tyes Tete RT ot : eee. se . tee ee ee tet SRI aT eet ta 7 > te ame cate | Ps ERT Ag tga ama AA LAT oti wt te meron me ATT . 7 ae a > . a 7 - Fh ae “he : Received as #8838 at Illinoie State Penitentiery, Joliet, 6-24-52, and was released on July Bth, 1952, on & writ of habeas corpus. . On same date, Syecial agent in Charge Purvis from, Chicago telee phonically advised this office that Chief of Detectives Williem Schoe- «|. maker of the Chicago Police Department informed him that James epur® i. Sammons was wanted by the Baltimore, Md., Police Department on & charge of a payroll robbery of $47,000.00, committed in October, 1926; also that he was wanted by the Chicago Police Department on & charge of | vO rotbery and vagrancy. er a ee Upon receipt of the above information, the writer, acecmpanied by Special Agent Jobn E. Brennen of the St. Louis office, proceeded to on the Jackson County Jail, where Sammons was incarcerated, and we again interrogated him, at which time O*Hare admitted his eriminal record as above set forth, but beyond that, he declined to make any state- ment. He contended, however, that he hed nothing to do with the Union Station massacre at Kansas City on June 17th, etating that fo, his presence here was merely to visit his friend Fritz Mulloy, above _ ae He, Sammons, snformed agents that in July of 1925, he was paroied by the - Tllinois Perole Commission, after having served 19 years out of a life . sentence et Joliet, and that in 1926, be was fully pardoned by the | —_ Governor{Governor Snalljof the State of Illinoie, but that shortly there- . after, Attorney General Carletrom declared that his parole was granted _— illegally, as e result of which he was re-arrested in 1929 and committed to Joliet. For this reason, Sammons asserted ho desired to keep awey fron Chicago as much 48 possible, and that he had made up his mind not to give himself up in the event an adverse decision is rendered against him by the Supreme Court in the State of Illinois. SS Ce In further conversation with Sammons, he advised agents that some of the | rival gengs in Chicago have for some time in the pat wanted to *bump him off,” end, 65 & matter of fact, he had been shot sometime in 1929 oo and on some other occasions, but in each intance, he escaped assassination. | Concerning the dyoing of Samons' hair and the growth of a mustache, hs.. - stated this was done to evade recognition by the mob, "whom he knew was» affer hin.® oo . SB go. Mr. Thomas Bash, the Sheriff of Jackson County, Missouri, advised the .— writer that he was going to communicate with Baltimore and Chicago and ascertain from the Chiefs of Police of these cities if Sarmons ia wanted by them, am that in the mentine, he was gdng to confront Sarmons with a number of witnesses of the massacre, which took place in front of the Dnion Station on June 17, 1935, inasmuch os Sammons’ description fite vosemiy one of te Ren, aPBRagReED Seem Am the MALO SA at the ee rs