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pees | aes ay ERGAR HOOVER es ~\. DIRECTOR poe. A cha. : of * * a * t WP —- Bibision of Inbestigation, | ieesiae oo sow. _ . S. Department of ‘ \ i} I Cent me ‘} oe Bashi pmo te Me. Pawards nn 8 : : ce oa . BS oh z - Mr. Egan .. no wisEG BEOVORDED Janlé Snap se AES: - tee oe — | _ . — & DIVISION or it aie _ Me ee wg ae a py See He: arg Gee _ JANY 9 1934 conan Mi URORR ce DIRSCIOR. 4 : nl ee : | ph US] ee | j on Saturday, = ed ‘word of the capture of Milbe COUnderhi11 at Shawnee, Oklahoma, I endeavored to map 02 Special Agent in Charge . L Colvin, who had advised the clerk over the telephone that =... '- #. he was departing from Shawnee for Oklahoma City, where he would arrive about 11:60 otelock, this being 12300 ofciock — Eastern time. cee cnet Being unsuccessful in locating Colvin, 1 r finally - was able to reach Special Agent Edgar at the Municipal Hospital at Shawnee. This Agent, however, could give me | no intimate details of the gun battle and stated that ~ fgent Frank Smith was somewhere in the hospital, that he | and Snith were left as guards and lr. Colvin had gone back © to Oklahoma City. . About 1:00 otelock, Special Agent in: Charge Colvin called anc advised the details of the capture, as ‘since. |. appear in his letter of Decexber 31, 1933, which is attacheds He stated that he had been engeged in placing under arrest . George and Lon Hohnson at whose home Underhiil1 had stopped | on several O¢cdsions during the past week. At this time J - pil abte. instructed Special Agent in Charge Colvin to return td Shawnee arene and to keep the Division’ advised by telephone of, developments. .~ Tae +: wee On the following morning, Colvin advised that there - . po " seemed ncthing further for him to do at Shawnee as he had | t placed a guard of four agents at the hospital, two each on Tat shifts of 12 hours and as he had left a sick bed to make the - Oe raid, he felt he ought to go back home to take care of his -eold. ae 2°... "+ He was authorized to return to his hom@s::". -... Moy et On the morning of January 1, 1934, Colvin celled Mr. TOP NS Tolson and advised that some anonymous telephone calls hag — been received by the hospital advising that the gang was - mag ; ; going to get Underhill and the hospital was Cesirous of having ; e hin moved, I later talked to Colvin who affirmed this fact and =~ ° stated that the doctors at the hospital would give him no. me mo — ap_stated over the telephone as to whether Underhill could be” le removed eat this time and hed requested him to proceed to Shawnee, | zo - a MM Go d COPIES DESTROYED | ae ne *; “a