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‘a. MEMORANDUM FOR FILE 8 RGF Ore, Charlotte, N.C. 7 No. 4. Pa / January 30, 1034 — Oy by _ Agent interviewed Cqlonel 4. M. Scarborough, Superin- tendent of the State Penitentiayy, Columbia, South Carolina, with reference to an unsigned letterjrhich was received by the Charlotte Office, stating that one fleorge*Birdwell, who is reported to be a@ very bad criminal, was in the neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina, and was at thet time at ac. C. C. Camp near Ridgeland, South Carolina, and that said Birdwell may be the Birdwell who is the associate of CHARLES ARTHUR (PRETTY BOY)’ FLOYD. This unsigned letter was mailed in an envelope which bore the return address of Colonel A. M. Scarborough, Columbia, §— South Carolina. Colonel Searborough called in Captain C. A. . : Sullivan of the Bureau of Identification at the State Penitentiary, who is the man who reads all of the outgoing mail in the Penitentiary, in order to determine whether any of the inmates of the Penitentiary had written this letter. Captain Sullivan advised agent that he himself had tritten the letter and had forgotten to sign it. Captain sulla te, advised agent that ‘he had heard several of the convicts speaking of a man by the name of George Birdwell, tho, they said, was a "bad egg;" tht he, Captain Sullivan, remembered that one Marie Hill, who was an inmate of the Penitentiary in 1932, frequoutly written letters to said George Birdwell; that he, Sullivan, had recently read of the association of a George Bird- well with "Pretty Boy" Floyd and thought that the Biriwell to whom Merie Hill hed written ani about whom the convicts at the Peni- . tentiary had frequmtly spoken was the Birdwell who was wanted in connection with the Floyd activities. Colonel Searborough advised agent that he knew the ‘Birdwell about whom Captain Sullivan was speaking; that this Birdwell was & resident of Columbia and was a “small-time pimp” about toen; that he, Colonel Scarborough, in the latter part af 1932 had questioned ~ Birdwell with reference to some of his activities and thet he consequently remembered him well. Colonel Scarborough stated that this person is about twenty-two yeara of age, five feet siz inches tall and weighs about one hundred thirty-five pounds. He said that he felt certein that this was not the person who hes been associating . With Floyd. He advised agent that Detective Knox of the Columbia Police Department had arrested Birdwell ebout @ year previous in connection with his activities of *pimping" and that Birdwell had & FEB. tot |