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‘ 4 Qetober 3, 1933. Xe . va MEMORANDUM Eh . connissionesMRevpert, of Kansas City, delivered an address before a business t . feats club in Kansas City yesterday, and is alleged to have made certain statements ritical of the Agents and work of the Division of Investigetion of the Department of Justice. The following are reported to have been the principal points of his remarxs, with comment as to the actual facts existing: l. Re COFi-sS VESPROYED nea 7 a ee Mr, Repnert is alleged to have stated that had the police authorities of Kansas City knom the identity of the prisoner who was being brought into Kenses City by Government Agents and the dangerous character of that prisoner, namely, Frant™vash, the Kansas City massacre would likely not heve occurred, for more Kansas City police officers would have been as- signed to the matter, and would have been properly equipped with machine — guns. If Mr, Reppert made this statement, he is totally ignorant of the facts in the situation. As 2 matter of fact, Mr. Vetterli, the Special Agent in Charge of the Division of Investigation at Kansas City, on the night before the arrivel of Frank Nash, notified the Kansas City police that Frank Nash was to be brought. into Kensas City the next morning , and requested the assignment of Kansas City police officers to assist in the matter. In response to this request, two police cfficers were so assigned. oo i Mr. Reppert is alleged to have made the statement that the handling of 4 the transfer of Nash from the Union Station at Kansas City to the euto- 4 mobile for transportetion to Leavenworth Penitentiary was not properly =| taken care of, Mr. Reppert seems to overlook the fact that not only re vere trained and experienced Agents of the Division of: Investigation a present at the Union Station, but that the Chief of Police of McAlester, 3 Oklenoma, @ trained and feerless officer, and tio able and exverienced > nmolice officers of the Kansas City Police Department, were likewise E present, and that the judgment and experience of these officers were | c applied to the handling of the transfer of Nash from the train to the 4 automobile, and thet any criticism of those arrengements reflectsnot | & only uoon those officers who are now living, but upon the men who were fz killed in the performance of their duties. ‘ Yr. Reppert is alleged to have stated that the Kansas City magsacre had been solved by Chief of Police Higgins of the Kensas City Police Department, and not by the Federal authorities. Mr. Reppert seers t overlook the fact that in so far as the Kansas City police authoritie« are concerned not a single person has been arrested in connection \ with this case at their instance, whereas the Federal authorities he in custody three men and two women, and in additio