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Kansas City Massacre — Part 13
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. Frou a study of Leavitt 4% fe evident “¢hat be wuld mot - .
-. f absiet Sue Government or any other lew enforcacent egercy in locating ms
“74 yiyver er eazy of hie eesceletes. During the past ten yoara Leavitt -2....-
bas bad @ tough tine himself, evading jail. He As. Row y aized. ‘wp. in sa
_2eeel proceedings et Chi ong, Diltnois. ns : eee
a a 7 Agents of the Chiceso Bures2 office bed ‘Leavitt ‘under our=:- ae
a vetllance at the Park Lane Hotel for three days before he wes brought ; :
in for questioning. Mr. Forshay, the elerk, informed agents Keating and”
Maéala that for three or four nights prior to agents’ vieit at the hotel” ~~
‘oe - teo detectives and @ women vere waiting at the hotel, endeavoring to -.---25.. ..
tb ee Ses locete Leavitt. ‘he worar informed the doorman, according to Mr. Forsbay,
bee gS thet Leavitt ha chested her out of $39,000.00. The detettives with this -
ee : } wore: were apparently private detectives. A check of the various detective .
an s ageccies at Chiceso, Illinois feiled to determine that ony of the esencies -
Pree: «- were bendling @ eos0 against Leavitt in Chicage. oF os Bt Bon ee
Seen em ied, i see ue “ee Sees: funfae Fee.
os g. ‘3 Sixzeon, who is ‘associeted with Leonera Fobnson, who
. ccndscts a private detective acerey at Rom 1206, Medinah Evilding, 176
| West Acaus Street, Chicago, Tilinois, was interviewed by agerts Jenkins
= . . @bd Keating, and be stated that be was, until recently, fn charge of the ...
oie a -. Ipvestigating Department for this region of the Kational Surety Go. low —.....
was “tr * gated on the fifteenth floor of the Benkers Bullding; that while oeeupying ~
ae ™".. this positioz early in Merch, 1933, a lawyer, whcse nance he earnot’ reacember,
- ‘ ys , celled on hin at bis office; that this lewyor formerly practiced in St. Paul, —
acd tow has office spece with other levyers in the Conway Buliding, Chieago, ©
o fourth or fifth floor; that thie lawyer hed one defective eye; that the .
a or lewyer tolé hin he knew uhere there wae a quantity of stolen bonds and asked
or
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: hin if he was interested in the recovery of same; thdt be said he was, * |.
a ae whereupon this lawyer said that he sould get in touch with him in a few” aa
ba roe Gays; that e dey or two later he received a telephone call from an unknown ©
wen who eald, *In regerd to that bond deal, there will be a fellov moot en
Mi
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u oO . at the La Salle Hotel in the lobby*; that thet evening he went to the (3:70.
wa Le Salle Hotel, and while standing in the lobby ea man came up to bin, ‘tho, . -
after asking if he wae the man who had talked with the lawyer above mentioned,
ne . and being assured that he waa, stated that hie nace was Fash: that Nash in-. |
formed him that be bad @ number of stolen bonds that he woulé like to seli
to bin; that he told Nash be was not permitted to buy bonds and wes only -.
interested in their recovery; thet he endeavored to ascertain from Fash what
bonds he hed for sale; that Nash at this time told him to call him Frank as
he was-knows to all the other fellows as Frank; that after talking a while,
they arrived at no conclusion with regard to the matter, and Kash told him
that be would see bim leter.
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