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h- \“ ne ocean cn tng a cn a ets OS EE it tr te a te RES SAINTS RIESGO face, On Durenr of Iubestigation : 7 Beparhment of Justice Mr. Rathan & ft pute. Poison! Mr. Ldwarde...... oT re meee ee ” go Liberty Hat'l Life Building, ’ Birmingham, Alabama July 15, 1933 Director, . United States Bureau of. Investigations Washington, D.C. JUL 18 1933 Re: UNKNOMN suBTROTS FS benry Obstruction of Justice, (xndeavor to deliver Feder Prisoner Frank Nash) Birmingham File: 62-826 ECORDEn & ine Aaah Dgéar Sir: the .- | ¢. ofPlarkersate, - items . have recently been — Attached hereto are newspaper clip ings Nashville, Tennessee, Banner dated July 13, 1933, and th Tennessee, Leaf-Chronicle of July 12, 1933, which are new indicating that Pretty BoygFloyd was reported to geen at New Providence, Tennessee. ‘ Inquiry was made at Clarksville, Tennessee, on July ~~ 14, 1933, by Special Agent J. Ll. ieCaffrey and Special Agent J. M. Tovler where it was learned that the article had been written by =. J Loower of the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle who informed Special Agents . bid information had been received from rumors and that he could not point to anyone who had started this story. ot The Agents, however, located one W. H. Greqn who we advised that he had heard that a travelling man named Fr eed, living at Anderson, South Carolina, and who at one time had‘worked - - in Oklahoma, hed informed one UM. H. Watt that Floyd and several - companions in three big cars, believed to be Cadillecs, had been seen Jeet at the Austin Filling Station near New Providence, Tennessee, on July «2° 6, 1933, and that this travelling man hed talked with Floyd who stated ~ that he was enroute to the state of Georgia. re 7 as a woos Ps bir. He H. Watt when interviewed by the Agents said that one Frank Reed, representing the Kerr Glass Mamfacturing Company of Memphis, Tennessee, hed stayed in his home about a week ago but that | Reed had not mentioned that he had seen Floyd, although he did say _, , that Reed has worked in the state of Oklahoma. Vatt further stated that he had heard that Reed had epread such 4 story around Clarksville, wv Tennessee, saying, however, he did not know the names of the parties — cots DESTROYED | a ‘ tone : a A