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' pee leit +07 items « Tare at AT Ae a a pe tes eee ee ot . 7 5 nn ee ee " — - - . oot. - hot ee ae 7, ot na og ne aoe me ay . . . * * oa _- ee ee ts i” ott -o4 - tee sot + foro tet! . No. 3 Sheriff's Office at Oklahama City, ‘deed by t I. Redes, chier Deputy}: Detective Lieutenant Clerence Hurt end Detectives Charles Mickey Ryan. ; end Bryce of the Oklehoma City Police Department. These officers to-.. gether with the writer and Special agents Frank Smith, K. D. Deederiok; - a Paul Hensen, J. M. Edgar, T. M. Birch, and G. H. Franklin, proceeded = immediately by automobile to Shawnee, Oklahana, where we arrived about . 3:20 4. Me, on the SOth, inmedietely conferring with Frank Bryant, night Chief of Police at Shawnee; after which it was determined tpedtent ” to escertain as nearly as possible who might be in the house where the informent had reported that Underhill was located. To this end, the informeat accompanied by Mr. Bryant and ¢. 0. Hurt made a reconnais+- sence end determined that the house was 606 Dewey Street and at which tims it was observed that the house was fully lighted, but with ali blinds drewn, The informent had reported that when he had left the place at about 9:45 P, M., Underhill's car wes atending on the drive- way between the house and the garage the doors of which were standing wide open, When the second trip was made, it was observed thet the : gerage doors were closed and the car not in sight. It was also deter- mined by this time that the house was originally rented by one Hatley Smith, well know insur-nce man of Shawnee, but thet he had subelet it to persons whose identity was not established at thet time. It was &lso ascertained that the house had been under observation by the Shavnee Police for some weeks owing to suspicious activities thereat, With this information, it was decided to raid the place at once and the officers present were aivided into two squads, who proe ceeded together to within a block and e helf of the plece there we an left our eutomobiles, The writer, Agents Smith, Deaderick and Hansen with Detectives Hurt, Ryan and Bryce, approached the house from the . rear while Agents Franklin, Edgar, and Birch, accompanied by night oo | Chief of Folice Frank Bryant and Deputy Sheriff Eades and the other . deputies from the Cklahama City Sheriff's Office, approached the house obliquely frox the frat. The writer end the other officers © above mentiaed eporoached obliquely frem the rear, this precaution being teken in order to obviste the possibility of getting caught . in a cross fire. As we neared the house, a dog began berking furiously, which hastened our spproach to the rear of the house, at which time it was observed thet the shades on the two rear bedroom windows were up all the way and a light burning brightly in the rear tedroom, Upon nearer epproach, Underhill was seen standing inside dressed only in a long suit of underclothes and apparently just about to retire, Fear- ing that he would be alarmed by the barking of the dog, the writer accompenied by Lieutenant Hurt immediatély rushed forward to the rear _. window st which time Hurt shouted, “Wilbur, throw up your hands. It we ia the Law.* roca .