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mentioned it to him; that to the best of his recollection the only time he telked about his acquaintance with Frank Nash was on the 7 day the newspapers carried the news of the capture and killing of Nash; thet he, Covell, with Norman Boles and Frank Sullivan and probably one or two others ware seated in his car in front of the Liberty Bank on 15th Street when one of them bought a paper and in ' peading the headline he, Covell, casually mentioned the fact that both he and Nash served time in Leavenworth at the same tins. Relative to his acquaintance with David D. Mayne, Covell stated that he never met Mayne end would not know him if he saw him; thet he heard Mayne was a former Prohibition Agent and *stool pigeon" who used to shake people down and was a “tough guy". As to Henshaw, Covell stated that he became acquainted with Henshaw somewhere ebout May of this year through a mutuel acqueintence by the name of Joa [Prisco 6 drunkerd, who cleimed to represent some out of town newse per in the City; that throuzh Henshaw he. became acquainted with a Cuban insurgent by the name of Cabrora (Rafael Cabrora/senchez, 315 Bank of Nova Scotia, Havana, Cuba) who several montha &go head an office in the Evans Building under the neme of thefCuban Friendly Society; thet Henshaw took him up to Cabrora'’s office where the latter askei him if he, Covell, could not put him in touch with same rum runnera aiong the Eastern coast of Florida who would undertake to carry anmunition in their rum ships into Cuba for the revolutioniste; that Covell advised Cebrora that he knew same rum runners on the Florida coast but that neither he nor they would be interested in such a proposition. Covell Stated that subsequently Henshaw got in some trouble with one JimyNeil about some "hot |securities* and that around that time Henshew approached him and told hint thet he had good connections in St. Louis to dispose of some "not bonds? and wanted to know if he, Covell, had some which he de- sired to get rid of; thet Henshaw had beeq bothering him with thie pro- position several times after that and used to call at his home untii Tinally he, Covell, told his wife to adviee Henshaw that he wes out of the city and could not be reached, Covell stated that Henshaw hed a fixed idea of being a clever detective and a shrewd inforcation gatter but that in fact Henghaw, in his opinion, is mentelly defective. Covell stated that he satisfied thet Henshaw was the one who furnished information to Drewrierson for . the latter's article in the “Washington Herald" for which Covell filed §— Suit against Pierson in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; that ?ierson referred to Covell as an ex-mail robber who served a long term Yn Leavenworth and was e friend of Frank Nash; thet the article mentioned an interview of Covell with a prominent Cuban in which they discussed the possibility for new gambiing establishments in Havana for