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wae then shown e picture of Galatas with the glasses on and told it was not . @ picture of Miller end seked if be was the oveupant of the cer and she stated . af aan pas ore ° “hr. Aiea, ‘abo ‘te employed by ure. . Hopkine « ‘and who “chao n _ " viewed and talked to the suspects on the night of the 16th, was interview8d | ‘and stated that he regularly reads detective magazines and has kept up with: Ps ' the Kansas City shooting case and has seen many photographs of Miller. He < was present when Mrs. Hopkins positively identified the photograph of. Galatas”, ' ge being Vernon Miller and the pereon who was at her plece, and he Likew! 00: -. §@entified the photograph. Mra. Hopkins then stated that when ahe inew Roy. : Miller in the Carnival ten years ago he bad very dark pair, 1 was "aaron ately 5° 9" tall and weighed about 165 pouniss vst cree ! From the above it was obvious to agents that Mr, Alten and Mrs, Hopkins were not sure of their identifications and although they ..-. “were correct in their statements that Mre. Hopkins had known the occupants ‘ Ps, % . of the car eight and ten years ago this fact alone would eliminate the . a possibility they were Vernon Miller and his paramour. From the interview At: eppeers doubtful that Mrs. Hopkins ever saw these persons previously but oe that she did know a Hoy Miller and a Gertrude Miller ton years ago and efter ~ learning from Detective Magazines of Vernon Miller and hie paramour associated — them with the Millers she hed known in the Carnivals. . ‘tea de ; In view of the ‘fact that ‘secord ing to ‘agent ‘Nance the original. source of information concerning Vernon Miller having been in the - -~- Vicinity of DeFuniak Springe was Mra, Hopkins and in view of the above: ., Anvestigation, it was not deemed sAvisable to continue investigation ay ‘further. 4 wd aa re a Te Lesage oe Ey vu, 4 : ae . aan F won le * ‘ 2 - ‘ he whe. le - 7 1 woe fs a woos agent Hance advised that on October: ‘es, 1933, while i» ‘the Sheriff's Office at Tallahassee, Florida, a bootlegger came to the ot Sheriffta Office and in the presence of Nance told a Deputy Sheriff that he =~ had learned that on that date a man hai been arrested by the police at St. . Petereburg, Florida, who was @ well known gangster and a friend of Pretty ‘Boy Floyd; that the man errested had lived around fTellahassee during the S Bok past summer ani had frequented this bootlegger*s home where he had often -. purchased liquor. Agent Nance atated that he inmediately questioned this. =. bootlegger ae to, the description of the man to whom he referred en, although” ~ the bootlegger could not give him the person's name, described person et a . Verton Miller*’s description and voluntarily stated that the perean whom he knew had the aed of one of the fingers of his left hand mine ings -. ~ “At the Sherift's office et DoPintek Springs it was ere earned that the Pensacole Newspapers had on the day previous carried en *°* article to the effect that a man named George Morris, who was « well known criminal, had been arrested by the police at St. Petersturg, Florida, and he was thought to be a friend of Pretty Boy Floyd. It is possible that the