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secrete eee er eee lle le pee ar a Tye eS = _ — . ot ee + a ‘ ue ital enti po Il, Sos oe _ very uy yours, = BN 905 Pederel Reserve Bank Building Koneus City, Missour$.«.: 9/3, duly E46, ee gat Nor aa a g ATTENTION: Thos. J. Layson «=~ Hon. Tm. Le Vandeventer =" United States Attorney Se Kansas City, Missourd we ve a we Year Sir: —= — - "RRs VERNON Co MILLER with aiteccs, et al 7 OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE (Endeevor te ~ Deliver Federal Prisomr Frank’ oe) K.C.File 62-7600) 2 ion & ote, aaa A" h aaa ‘ ‘fe $ en . Vly. Pursuent to your » pequeat there is furnished herewith ‘tnfomuation © oonearning the conviction of Frenk Nesh, his escape from the Dai ted States Peni tentiery, Leavenvorth, Konese, end hie subsejuent arrest, foLowed by the occurrence which took place at the Union Station, Kansas CL tYe Meoourt, on June 17, 19356 ee eee lw kee Frank Rash wee received at the United States Penitentiary, Lenvenrorth, Kuness, on March 3, 1024, to serve a ecntence of tventy-five yeura, huving becn convicted at Oklehiwa City, Oklahoma, in the Nestarn District of OKLahons, for assauulting a mail custodiane The date «f hie conviction is not definitely known to this office, but a-certified copy of the sonmmitment will be in the . hands of the farden of the United States Peni-entiary at Leavenvorth who will aleo be a witness to his incarceration there and hie subsequent escapee He ' @acaped from the United States Penitentiary at Lesvenworth on the evening of ~- October 19, 1930. Nash was apprehended at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the - afternoon of June 16, 1933. While being escorted to the United States Penitentiary at Leavenzo>th, Kansee, in custody of Speoial Agents F. S. Buith - and Fe J» Lackey, acting officially under ordere fram the attorney General of the United States, the offic:ra ware attacked and Nash wae killed. Officielly engnged in conducting Nueh to the penitentiary at the time of the ettack ws - Bleo Special agent R. J. Caffrey, of this Bureau, and Chief of Police Otte - Reed of MeAlester, OXishoma, Meenrés Caffrey end Reed wero aleo killed by ©. tho assassins, who attacked the group, of officers at ‘Eansee OA tYe, Minsourly , on the porning of June 17, 19Se .. f tad ye msg tg re ae 1 ty cp: Me CG. SPTAN, acting | CLL Z Special agent in Charges: Trt te WFT:B ec » Burrau me