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Mr. Nathan ~—— Mr. [6:80N Mr. Cleae.—-— Mr. Eawa: as k* a Buren of Inhestigation Suite L Federal Building i’ Kansas City. Personal and _ December 22, 1933.5 Confidential. * Director, RECORDED car . Division of Investigation, U. S. Depaartment of Justice, INDEXED Washington, D.C. DEC 20 1933 BEC 20 1933 Dear Sir: wr RE: VERNON 0 Curtur 4 ; i - * yet a yD | CONSPIRACY 10 DELIVER FEDERAL PRISONER po - Let h This is to confirm my long. distance telephone call with the Director from Chicage, Illinois, on November 6, 1933, in connec- a\ tion with information furfiished to me by a confidential informant, ree who has strong underworld connections in Chicago, Illinois. The n e+ Director will personally recall the identity of the informant. 4 The informant stated that Bernerd Phillips, who is generally known in the underworld as YSig Phil,” was killed in the East af- ter the Indiana bank robbery last surmer. It appears from the information received that the underworld is in possession of information to the effect that Bernard Phillips was the fourth man on the golf links at the time that Keating, Holden and Harvey Bailey were apprehended at Kansas City, Missouri; the underworld generally believes that Bernard Phillips tipped off Federal of- ficers and caused the arrest of the other three. For this reas- on, Phillips is supposed to have been put on the spot. The in- i formant stated that Phillips was killed with ice picks and that he fought viciously at the time that he was being killed. It - appears from the information received that he was stabbed a great many times and more or less tortured to death.'- The in- formant stated that in his opinion Harvey“Bailey was not one of the machine gunners at the Union Station Massacre. He in- formed me that Bailey and Miller, both of whom are well known : to him, were at odds before Bailey was arrested on the golf , COPises DESTROYED 40 Aue 31 Iy64