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Kansas City Massacre — Part 39

158 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 15, 1953 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 157 pages OCR'd
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for ne | a. S. Buren of Inbestigution at, S vf Bepariment of Justice 420 Federal Building, Dallas, Texas. March 16, 1034, Director, Division of Investigation, U.S, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C,. = Ret GEORGE RI4GLLY, et al, _ Kidneping. < 2 Dear Sir: t 8 In responsp to Divieion letter/of March 13, 1934, \5 72 th reference to onel BOYER of Geinesvilye, Texas furnishing ~ , 'v machine guns to George Kelly and otherifangsters, you are in- + — “4 formed thet on August 20, 1933, Spectal/Acents J.C, White and ~ 7. = C.B. Winstead interviened F, 74 Boyer at Gainesville, Texas, C who had requested Chief of Police Loving tc put him in touch 9 * & with an agent of the Division. F.J. Boyer was knom to both 7 a fgents White and Winstead as he was in 1920 to about '22 -. mounted watchman in the U.S, Immigration Service at El Paso, o re Texes. Hie reputation for truth; veracity end honesty was 3 questionable. . fo. we At that time Boyer stated to Agcnts thet on August . M ~~ way 26, 1933, Goerge and KethrynjKelly called et his house in Gaines= poo fy ma ville and sttempted to purchase a Thompson Machine Gun from him ¢& 4 wi 2; but he did not heve one and did not sell one to them; that he > ™ Nests first became acquainted with George Kelly through Wolff & Klar _ _ a of Ft. Worth, Texas, who sent Kelly to him to purchase two t, yy err a machine guns. He at that time stated elso that he had never ny PES sold a machine gun to anyone except police organizations, and ~ mets, at the time he mde the seles he wes a representative of the - a Auto Ordnance Company of New York. ~ He elso at that time stated that Kelly was impli- cated in the kidnaping of the Lindbergh Baby, and hed told him (Boyer) that he hed kidnaped e man in Ft, Bend, Indiene; that this victim was wetering hie lewn when kidnaped. He also stated sq that Kelly and one/Hendricks were impliceted in the Kansas City as Massecre; thet he obtained this information . . 7 RECORPED a a ce a3 i - GOPIES DESTROY ED xed rot pati ; - [D i S220 WGI 49.5984 Lo ‘ 2 ot Pa
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