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* | PENS ‘Friday evening, October 15, A953. eat pe: BE A : OBS eee Will be notified. a ctaegt wa ASN Se ck, Oe terre el ee ee eae, ee oe (: cy 6204949 “r+: *) ginee the > writing of this "gaport,. the following ‘enovendua” wate has been received from Special agent G. ¥. Doherty covering Anvoetigen Bk yp ae tion made ty him at Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y, tat On October 17, the writer conferred with Comiesiones Roche 7 and Chief of Detectives Sohub of the Buffalo Police Department, and af- ig ae vised them of the information as to the possibility of *Pretty Boy* and ©: Beulah Baird having been seen in the City of Rochester, N,Y., on. October 13, 1933, and es Buffalo, N.Y,, ie the nearest large city to Rochester, 1¢ was believed advisable that they should be informed, © Commissioner Roche directed Chief Schuh to bave several copies of the’ photo Ege of "Pretty Boy* and Beulah Baird made, and distributed among the detectives with appropriate instructions to make exhaustive inquiry throughout the 3 city to ascertain whether or not “Pretty Boy" had ever beenin the City ¢ Buffalo or xhether anyone answering his description hed deen seen recentlye The writer wes eubsequently advised by chief Schuh thet” exe haustive inquiry hed bean made by his men but that no information had been = 8 = procured, that anyone who resembled “Pretty Boy", had been in the city Presently or at any time; that his men will continue to make inquiry end --:.--- in the event any information is received, the writer and the New York offices £ oo wet wags Captain MeDonald ana 4 Lieutenant colline & the Rochester poijes + WBE: “ Department advised that no information had bean procured ty them or their men which would definitely establish thet “Pretty Boy” and Boulah Baird hed ‘been in Rochester, N.Y., on October 13, 1935, or at any time. Detectives Galloway and Sharpe advised the writer that since . ‘Jest being interviewed, they bad been unable to procure any information wich . would corroborate the statement made by Hartman, the speakeasy proprietor previously referred to, although thay contacted several inforsants sho frequent Hartman's place, but were unable fe » find anyone who as there on ee Detective Gedlowey advied ‘the writer that Ba. staat, “rotorious; bootiegger in Rochester, mows "Pretty Boy", having met him in the West,” and that he, Galloway, feels certain that wore “Pretty Boy* in Roches tal, - vies he would communicate with Bd. Staud, but thet Staud, when discrestly intere viated denied ever having seen "Pretty Boy” recentlye Tne writer, together rith Detectives Galloway and gherpe, observed for several hours various known han;j-outs where persons of "Pretty Boy's” calibre frequent, but no one anawering his description ao that of Beulah Baird, was seen, and although innumerable confidential 1