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, 21. S. Bepartment of Justice / | mpl ISION QF INV ES TISATION SUITE L = FEDERAL BUILDING KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. , a en Director, RE: VERNON C. MILLER (DECEASED) ET AL Division of Investigation, CONSPIRACY TO DELIVER FEDERAL U. S. Department of Justice, PRISONER. = Washington, D. Cc. “Ba RT EP Deer Sir: VA Kindly refer to Division telegram dated Februpry,.2}, 2 reference is made to letter from this office to the DB Vision February 13, 1934. The Division is respectfully advised that on dF about June the latent fingerprints mentioned in previous letter se having been obtain by Special Agent J. E. Brennan and Mr. Jack Jenkins at the house at 6612 Edgevale Road, Kansas City, Missouri, were discovered and photographed. On that same date, June 29th, Mr. Herold Nathan, Assistant Director, tele- phoned the Division from the Kansas City Field Office requesting that photographs and fingerprints be immediately furnished the Kansas City Division Office of the suspects in thie case as named on pages 59 and 60 of the report by Special agent in Charge R. E. Vatterii, deted at Kansas City, Missouri, June 26, 1933. Division telegram of that same date, June 29, reflects that photostatic copies of the fingerprints requested and avail- able photographs were being forwarded to the Kansas City Office that night via Air Mail. Upon receipt of these photostatic copies of fingerprints, com- perisons were made between the prints in question and the latent prints found at the above described residence; these comparisons having been made at Kansas City by Speciel Agent J. E. Brennan. As 4 result of these comparisons, Special Agent Brennan identified some of the latent prints as those of Vernon C. Miller, South Dakota State Penitentiary No. 4240. This identification 1a reported on page 23 of thea report of Special Agent W. F. Trainor, dated at Kansas City, Missouri, July 3, 1933. It will be noted that although the latent prints were compared by Special Agent Brennan with the prints of numeroua other suspects, no identification other than that of Vernon C. Miller was made. As noted in Kaneas City letter dated February 13, 1934, the beer bottles containing latent prints have st all times, since their location on or about June 29, 1933, been carefully preserved in the Kansas City Division Field Office. The telephone and clock upon which were found latent prints, were immediately returned to the residence from which taken at 6612 Edgevale Road on or about June 29, 19535. eons Cibawibo ~O AUG Y1 1sv4