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t see ptlanta, O05 vos Beptember 6,933, 0 + , ™. . 7 . a Fron the recorde of the United ‘Btetes Penitentiary, 1 atlanta, - Ga., Agent learned that Janes R. Moore, No, 42935 was received at the Peni< | tentiary, April S$, 1935, to serve a sentence of four years from Louisville, Kentucky, for violation of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act. His ebort term expires April 15, 1936, ; Moore advised Agent that he operated ‘the automobile ‘in which . he was caught and for which he te now serving his sentence as a;car for hire and that be made all of the principal cities and stopped at travel buyeaus.: He says that early in January, 1933, he was at the Meca Hotel in-Kansas city, Mo, and got in touch with Cherlieiieddux who runs a travel Bureau. Ee seid that Maddux ie the fellow sto was ‘involved in the killing of O'Neal from “ Chicago, who was killed at Chillicothe, Ohio ani thrown ont of the car neked, He did not think that Maddux was tried for this but was under suspicion. He does not know that Maddux knous “Pretty Boy Floyd" but says thet it was through Maddux that he took Floyd as a passenger to Fort Smith, arkansas.—‘They errived @t Hot Springs, arkansas, about 3,00 A. M. the morning after leaving Kansas City and he let Floyd out of the oar at the Sigler apartments, which are back of the Como Hotel, and be saw Floyd walk down the street past the Sigler Apartments. By errengenent he met Floyd the next day about noon et Mre,’ Bates, who operates | & trevel Bureau in Hot Springs on Central avemue. She ie the only women in . Hot Springs who operates this kind of Bureau. He says he then took Floyd to — Fort Gnith, arkansas, and when they arrived Floyd got-out of the car at the Baltimore Hotel, and later that night he sav Floyf at the Baltimore Hotel and egain the following morning. . Moore says that when he got to Fort Snith he called to 1 see Hertha Cullum nee Mason whom he had previously met between Christmas, 1952 end Hes | eats at El Paso, Texas. He saya that Bertha lives on Central aveme in Port . Smith neer the canning factory. Bertha told him in Ei Paso that ahe knew Floyd $ well and could put him in toucs with Floyd if bg ever cane to Fort Smith. He. " gays be told her he was not interested. “ . “SS Moore says the next time he saw Floyd was the morning efter the night Floyd kidnaped the two Deputy Sheriffe at Fort Gnith, and took them out © in the country, He says he met Floyd on thie occasion at the home of a fellow named ‘Fiason who is a brother of Berthe Cullum. He thinks bis name was Fred but won't be positive. He says that Mason lives on a hill.in Fort Smith not very far from the home of his father. .The distance between the home of Mason and his father is not over ten city blocks. Koore advised Agent thet before Christmas, 1032, he met Joe Rufell, a eines” at Dearfield, Mo., which is about ten miles East of Fort Scott, Kansas. li's wite SA the telephone operator eat Dearfield and according to Moore 1s copins *DESTHOR am Aaa oh ea Lees an ee a A - -_