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Ay ? ea : i Government and the State of Missouri and get a temporary parole, he ©. ; | oo MS Bepeneet ot tn 7 Buren of Inbesti ation SUITE L - FEDERAL LDING KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, — NOVEMBER 24, 1935... OR HAO _— ovis ONE, a _ Nov 289599 a ‘ Director oe -_ ance . . Division of Investigation - Ja ttt or, U. S. Department of Justice = = ot LE ot Washington, D.C, : 7 Reference is made to Division letter dated September 21, 2! 1933, regarding the receipt of a letter from one James Bowers, 208 fr | Box 47, Register No, 35202, Missouri Stete Penitentiary, efferaon .- = 67.” ee City, Missouri, requesting that a confidential man Stop 3 in to see ENE On November 21, 1932, Prisoner No. sseoe, James W. Brown, - alias James W. Bowers, was interviewed by an Agent of this office — ; at which time Brown stated that he had written the letter in order a that arrangements might be made to assist him in getting a temporary _ ane . parole in order that he might help in loca ting Wilbur (Uaderhill, ots oy: Fugitive, for the Government. . - See j _ Brown atated that he is a “tour, time loser*, and is ser oe ing a ten year sentence and has two and one-half years of the same - left. He asserted that his father ie now deceased and that his aged | mother needs his aupport. He declined to state where his mother is § now living. He stated that he felt that if he could bargain with the could "lay a finger" upon Underhill. Questioned as to how he knew... © Underhill, he stated he met the man in the Missouri State Prison an some years ago, but he admitted that he is not an intimate friend of Se the man, and he further asserted that he has not heard from Underhill ae directly or indirectly, since the latter's escape from the Kansas 2... | me State Prison on May 30, 1933. He further stated that he has not been os wo me in the State of Oklahoma since about 1923 and that this was his only .. a a. visit to that State. He was asked why he thought he could locate | Underhill since he was not a close friend and wae not acquainted mith Oklahoma, the reputed point of Underhill‘'s present activities, and - he replied that he could establish connections with an an where upon short notice, Brown was advised that he waa one of several hund fed ‘Wha GATION had tried to better his own situation by offering to ONO, a SEEPS, A.M on en escaped prisoner in return for a parole or pardon) Xn ) . Government could not make any bargsins. He was advised that if. he vs “BTICE os RECORDED COPIES DESTROYED Nov 9 9 3 40 AUG 31 1964 © rer ee " ars y