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Kansas City Massacre — Part 9

39 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 14, 1933 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 37 pages OCR'd
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het “WH AT BAO a M.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Inbestigatiot: =v. 625 Lafayette Bufyaing- . * Detroit, Michigip, <-‘' July 14, 1933.7. cee ” omy, woe fey ‘os Director, United States Bureau of Inveatigation, Washington, D. Ce Dear Sir: Pursuant to a long distance telephone call from Agent Trainor of the Kansas City office pn July 13, 1955 requesting certain information regarding Richard Tallman Galatas, I wish to advise that Special Agent Le De Socey of this office mde immediate inquiry concerning same and. secured the following data: , ‘yur. Ne J, Engatler, Secretary of the Elks Lodge, Noe 4, upon request exhibited to agent application for membership, sutmitted by Galatas, which reflected the following informtion: | Dated - April 27, 1926 re) Name of Applicant - Richard T. Galataa Born = Montgomery, Ala., 11-18-00. - 4 Residence address - 155 N. Kitchener St., Detroit, Mich. Business address - 1039 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Occupation - Salesman, real estate. Claims to never have been a member of any other lodge. | L, Roy Crites, 467 Hary St., Detroit, ia listed on said application as the person who proposed that Galatas be admitted to the Elks Lodge. 7 (NOTE: - attention is called to the fact that Crites: is subject of Detroit file #26-3861, and is presently confined to the U.S. Northeastern Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., to serve a total period of 12 years on five different indictments, which were outstanding against Crites at Cleveland, Ohio, and Tanvilie, Til. In this connection, he was found to have been actively engazed in the interstate transportation and sale of atolen automobiles between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, Danville and Chicago, Ill., the State of Indiana and other surrounding or no __ RECCREED SL PIES Des 3 DESTROYED JUL 19 1933 “ FLAT ee Seren at ma ett P.M.
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