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es Agent oalled at the Lake County Criminal Court building, | ica oR Crown Point, Indiana, on August let, 1955, and interviewed Mtr. fobs ~ H, Underwood, who 4g first assistant to lir.Robert &. Estill, prosecuting. * attorney for Leke County, Indiana, From the tone é6f the Jetter to the. Mickigan Stete Police it appeared thet Mc. Zetill Bad geen Phillips, tat in fact the parties who saw Phillips were Underwood andi ene Eli Keserio, a who is a bailiff in the Lake County Criminal Court, Mr. Underwood said that his wife anc sop, accompanied by Keserio, his wife, and another . anall boy, hed been on a vacation fishing at Petokkey, Michigan. on a” Wednesday, July 12, they spent the day fishing and then went to ea oo room which was loceted on Mein Street east of the Pennsylvania Rai lroad on the south side of the street, They were directed to thie lunch room beceuse it served draught beer, It was about 6150 in the afternoon, °° ~: After lf. Underwood and Mr, Keserio had entered this lunch room, two nn men entered and sat at the table immediately behind Keserio mé Underwood. * a: In addition to these four men there was encther man in the luneh roam | eating dinner, The men apperentiy was ea local working man end wae dressed in rough clothes, One of the new entrants upon obteining a glass of beer started talking to this Working man end stated that it waa good to get dra: ght beer, When he received ar affircetive ansver from the working men, this individucl later identified es Phillips, acid that he had been in LaCrosse, Indiana, recently, ané bed purchesed ea bottle of beer in ea Store and hed been unable to drink it ic the store but wee forced te go ‘outside of the store end drink it because of the law in Indienay Uyon _ mention of tre word LaCrosse, both Keserio and Underrood took notice of this individual, He was described. by them as being about 5’8" tall, . Weighing about 209 pounds, and as heving dark heir, He wore lerge, dark moked glesses such as many motorists now wears He was dressed withe - - panans hat, a white shirt open at the collar, and white pente, The type of the shoes that he wore were not noticed, His compenion was e tall, elender individual who apperentiy bad dark hair, although he tore a sailor straw hat, a white ahirt open at the collar and white pants with @ black stripe, The rman who resemble¢ Phillips then asked how business | was in Petoskey and was told that it was pretty goods He esked how the barking situation in Petoskey was and wes informed thet two of _- the banka .in Petoskey were oper and that the cement mill was operating and thzt employment wap about es usual, ‘This man stated that in his ae “section about fourteen banks bad closed in one days Saving’ finished their beers these two men arose and left the restaurant, There was 4 bulge in the pocket of the tall, thin man hich ._. Was_noticedby Mr. Underwood while thet man was sitting at the table, which resex:bled a revolver, Mr. Underwood thought thet thie man was in all likelihood left handed since the revolver was carried in the left band side pents pocket. The large heavy man efter leaving the =