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wm ne na eter ake ce ay ee peek hl ia i fe tg ‘driving the Whippet coach at the tine of his, Shelton's, arrest at Monroe. He stated that the pioture was a fair iikenese of the man but that the description did not ezactly tally as the Miller with whom he had been riding weighed in’ his opinion 175 pounds and was at least five feet ten inches. He also partially identified the photograph of Bernard Phillips as the man Bill Wiseman whom he knew. However, he could give no information regarding scars and he stated that he did not believe that Wiseman's hair wae ae thick — ' as Phillips’. He atated that eae far as he knew the two men in the Whippet car were going to Detroit and then to Chicago. . Shelton is at the present time confined in the county jail at Monroe, having been given thirty days as a vagrant. His fingerprints were forwarded to the Bureau on July 17 under the neme of Eerl Shelton alias Malcolm McNeil. In view of the story submitted by Shelton to the Agente of thie office it was deemed advisable to interrogate hia further, and hence he waa brought to Detroit, where he was interro- gated et length dy the writer. He releted practically the same story as given to Agents Stukes and Meekins. It was my impression after talking with Shelton that he haa to a certain extent manu- factured his story, and that he positively knows the two men with whom he was riding in the Whippet car, but hes furnished the names of Wiseman and Miller in an attempt to throw officials off the track of his two companions who perhaps are traveling in a stolen automobiie. He atates that he had been traveling about the country considerably for the last seven years; that he is well acquainted with the Ozark Country and haa been in several points in Missouri. He claims as above atated to know Wilbur Underhill and Harvey The description which he furnished of the man whom _ he alleges is Miller in one sense appeared to be somewhat identical with the description of Verne(Sankey, and that identification order was exhibited to hin, but he did not believe that the Miller with whom he had been riding resembled the photograph of Sankey. It will be noted in my communication dated July © directed to the Chicago Bureau Office that Bernard Phillipe was allegedly seen at Petoskey, Michigan, by County Prosecutor Estill of Lake County, Indiana, on July 12. This appears to be a material point in this matter in thet Shelton partially identified the identification order of Bernard Phillipe es the mn Bill Wieeman with whom he vas Yiding in the Whippet coach. In thie reapect it will be noted that Shelton was arrested eat Monroe, Michigan, on July 15, and that