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The witnesses viewed the prisoners in & man-" ner that would not unfairly expose any of the prisoners to identi-~ ° fications unless actually recognized by the witnesses. Arrangements were made with the wardens to have the prisoners in question mingle’. with a dozen other men of similar tges and descriptions. Care was. taken to have no prisoners in the group, other then Clark, Brady, .“ Kelly, Bates and Bailey, who were not in the pmmitentiaries as of. June 17, 1933. At each of the institutione visited, the wardena - eaused the various prisoners to file in individually, stand for an instant béfore the witnesses, tum the profile and front views and. then leave the room. After this procedure, all of the prisoners = « filed into the room in groups. It is believed that the process used afforded all reasoneble opportunity possible for the witnesses to. make identificetions. None of the witnesses could make positive | 9°. .7 7 .¢: identifications of any of the prisoners. Except as shown hereafter, he TT, the witnesses did not make any identifications, atalle ~. 0 - o S. con ra. West stated that Kelly looked femiliar to ©." ) her, but she caild not place him as having been seen at any definite -_ “time in the past. She did not recall heving seen Bailey or Ppates ~~. © fee except that she hed seen their likennesses in the press photographs. / ioe ne She recalled seeing and meeting Brady, tut could not place him as 4 * a perticipant in the instant massacre. She believed she had waited on. Brady at the Trevelers' Aid Deak at the Union Station sometime in ; the recent past. Mrs. West is highly temperamental, and she wept: practically all of the time on the retum trip to Kansas City. She was not interviewed in the presence of anyone else, in order to . insure a reliable statement from her vi thout fear thet her state _ ment might be known to others. Oe ae man who had boarded the elevator at the Union Station, which Clark - operated on the morning of June 17th shortly after the massacre. Ee oo stated that the individual hed traveled back and forth to his elevator in a nervous and excited manner on that mrning; that he was dressed. | _4n brown trousers end ea ten shirt, and thet he hed called the atten="2.... tion of Mra. West to his appearance at the Union Station that ‘morning-*. Kowever, Clark coufi not be positive ip hie identification of Kelly an ee the individual mentioned. ; of. Too. ay &t _ Jack Clark tentatively ‘daentitiea Kelly ¢ asa. _ a a an