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em er te Ee ee ede gate ae ce ee rE a ene eli gl el drat eri ah item eran ee tae te ae od Department of Justice 224 Federal Building, (kl shoma Vity, Okla, RHC: GM July 21, 10933, 62-456. Director, t vere States baresn of Invest igation,INLEXED ! 5 Vale a : a etm, D. Gz a Sa . Deer Sir; “RE: Vernon Oe Miller with alias, 2 a Obatruction of Just ceo (navaente.tgy cet ie liver Federal Pris ex_¥pey us Reference ie made to Bureau letter deted July 10, 1933, with which was forwarded a copy of ae letter received at the Bureau from Mra, Sedie B.\Rhea, 130 N. River Street, Commerce, Okle. I hed Mre, Rhee interviewed by Agent Hollis, who states; . *From the very beginning of the interview it was epparent to this Agent that Mra. Rhea is mentally unbalanced, It was exceedlingly Aifficult to obtain a coherent statement from her mletive to the .. matters which she reported to the Burean in her letter. I question-— ed her specifically ané at great length concerning her knowledge of - Wilbur’tnderhill and Herve J? Bailey, in View of the fact thet she made reference to the Seneca Bank robbery and the fact that Bailey is reported to have perticipated in thet robbery. Mra. Rhea is not at all ecquainted with Bailey or Unierhill. She stated that the reasan ehe wrote to the Bureay was because abo thought that MentyCotter, the — son of James ani Cora Cotter at Wyendotte, Oxlehoma, greatly resenbl- ed Wilbur Unierhill. She further stated that she vas employed at the Cotter bome as a domestic and shortly efter the robbery of the benk — at Seneca, Mo., she overheard a conversation between a Mr. Meisingham and Mr, and krs. Cotter. During this conversation the Seneca benk : robbery was mentioned and Mra. Rhea believes she beard Mrs. Cotter =§-—»>— state to Meisinghan that Mont Cotter, her son, wes implicated in the ; robbery. Ce ee “ure. Rhea confidentially edvised me thet the reason she mentioned in. »: her letter thet she overheard Frenkie Peacock, a davehter of Mr. ent .. Mre. Cotter state thet sho, Mrs. Rhea, wes worth $25.00, was that “Ea several years ago her father enfleavored to have her join a comm istic. orgenization end when she refused, her father advised her that if she did not join a standing reverd of "$25.00 would te placed on her until she would join, Mrs. Rhea head absolutely no information of value."