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Kansas City Massacre — Part 15
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“fnie leitererézort pertains. to “the ane palfistic: ‘e i
‘4 ‘ite involved in the Plaza Slayings of June 19thyF this seein hale":
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The , photographs. you have dliustrate evidence: Sees ‘and Seite aa ;
casos, found at the scene of the crime and removed. from the. bodies: eae: wifes
of the victims. The photographs are numbered end Yettered as. foley -
lows; Cartridge cases: 1 to & Bullets: 4 to B. A set of those” wt
photogrephe hee deen furnishéd Chief of Detectives Bigeina, ends: wet ro nO,
5 Souder of your, bureau of Standards. oe i,
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a’ " miecroscopé oxdninetions indicate “that tro Thoup¥on 'S ‘Sub-kicchtpe: oe
"7 guns, a .45 Colt Automatic Pistol,-end another weapon using steel) .
ball bearings, was used in the slayings. 1% te quite apparent “4... e faut
that your agent Caffrey was killed with « Ball- bearing, whilé ee S42
Lackey was shot, with a Thompson gun, Reid, Grooms and Nash were’ F
shot with a Thompson gun, while it is apparent that Hermanson vas" * aa
- shot with @ buck-shot gun. My conclusions are based apon eareful . _
' microscope examinations of, the exhibits now in my keeping.- Bullet .° i
holes in the tuo care indicate that the gun-fire Cine” Trom: “the front. . .
- a “Y ao a es: yes © . 4 te athe whe “ot
ayy Bullets end cartridge cases Prom Floyd's ‘gun, ghd from “the ‘sebresia:
Bank rybbery, and from the North Kansae, City dank robbery,/as well: Eee .
as bullets from our Detective Carpenter shooting, al) failed to de = 7;
identified as being connected with the weapons used in the pleza shoot- —
ings. Test bullets fjred by me from the two 438 calider Colt revol-~ a
2... were taken from *FurfSarmmons, failed to de. identified | ae Peing. cour _
es E ; nected with any Jocad syaeettondtae i “ rw Bes : oo
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me in omer that I can identity positively, the pamparison | Psgee
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ae was “discovered on D sugust 10th. oy ww. ‘ail; above wpentionea:: ‘that a
‘lead slug fired froma .38 caliber Colt revolver also entered the body ©
of Chief of Police Otto Reed. fhie slug was compared with various’
other specimens in possession of Gill’.- especially those fired fram the
revolvers of "Fur" Sanmons, but to date, no identification has been
made,
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