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Kansas City Massacre — Part 22

152 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Sep 21, 1955 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 152 pages OCR'd
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a Se furnish, she again saw Roy Miller and "Gert* Miller. dn another ‘Carniva es a Camp near DeFuniek Springs and that he had been making tavestigations for ‘Miller, was living with him and als6 performing-in the Carnival; ‘that "Gert*s* . ~ his wife whom ‘she hed known as aforementioned, ae ee ee imnediately recalled thut these two persons who were in the car were nemed ~ Liller and had been knoim to her cight and ten years ago, at wiich time they we-e beth working in Carzivals; “that approximately ten years ago at Lionroe- ville, Louisiana, while sae was operating a hot dog stand at the Sounty Fair the Golden Brothers Carnival vas ‘performing; that accord ing ‘to her recollection ' the man who was driving the eforementioned Ford 6 Sedan was working ‘mm ‘that — Carnival under the name of Roy Hiller; that hie wife, who. was known a6 “Gert” | i father was know as Jack lee and also performed in said Carnival as a gaan: - ash FE blower. Mrs. Hopkins was questioned as to whetber Gort had claimed her 2. (2 -- parenta to be nemed other then Lee and stated thaton one occasion at Meare a ville while drunk "Gert" bad told her that her parents’ true name was . aie ‘Gibson. It may de stated here that Ageiit Nance had previously discussed - with Lrs. Hopkins the fact that Willer’s paramour was named Gibson, sithoagh Agent Nance advised this Agent that the name Gibson was voluntarily given by ite. Hopkins prior to any suggestion on hie part. Lire. Hopkins further _, stated that two years subsequent to the aforementioned incidents, which was adout efgi:t years ago, while she was again operating an eating establishment . in a County Yair smewhere in Florida, the name of which ehe could not; \ - oe ¥ She stated that as soon as Sheriff Prescott mentioned the name Killer she ~ immediately recalled that these two persons were undoubtedly Hoy Miller and ee ee hele ea li Te "Mrs. Hopkins stated that while in the cernivele the uitiers had only one child, which was a boy, then two or three years of ot - ‘but had no girl. She could furnieh absolutely no further information of” " value, other than that Sheriff Prescott had told her he had received information to the effect that these persons had previously stopped at the Alpine Tourist | . the: purpose of locating them. She stated that sincé the above occurrence |: .. ehe hes told many people that Vernon Willer ani his wife had been to her =... Plece. She further advised that both she and lr, Allen, who is employed - by her, regularly read most of the detective magazines which are published. | and have seen photographs of Miller ani other leading erininals, She was es shorn photographs of Miller and his paramour and stated that the photograph - * _ of Killer 444 not look very much like the man who stopped et her place. but: thet the girl was undoubtedly the girl whom she knew es “Gert* Millers : She A = stated thet she hed no opportunity $o see the man's ‘nandse ob aes ; a : ee ae ” agente. ‘then ‘stereibeed * Sieritt a Be “Prescott. and itnoup _ advising him ae to > why we were in that ‘vicinity diecussed genere] matters — ‘ith him and he voluntarily atated that on Liondey,. October 16,- 1935, bynes Pilcher, who lives in that vicinity, had come to his office and ‘advised that - .on the night previous, while at a filling etation near there, a ‘stranger’ pad . offered him a drink, which he took; that the stranger had two pistols in his” belt, was driving a Ford 9 Seden with Florida license turned upside down on the rear. Tne sheriff stated that he immediately showed al1 of his identifica- tion orders to Pilcher end Pilcher identified the photograph of Wilber Underhill as being that of the stranger with the two pistols. Pilcher was. immediately = 3 =
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