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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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1, (Was desirouse | vee In connection with the friends of the persons mentioned above, it may be noted that Davis stated that hhe hed never met VIVIAN MATHIS or MRS. BOBBY ‘MOORE. During the questioning an “attenpt was ; made ‘to secure: trom Davis definite information which might reveal the hangouta of the various eriminals from the .- Southwest, His atatements, however, wore invariebdly vague, except when he dies . ¢ussed the Black Rock benk robbery, He became evasive when definite informatian was desired, He did volunteer information to the effect, however, that HARVEY BAILEY was not involved in the Ureche] kidnaping case, enc even advised that in bia opinion the ransom money may have been planted on Bailey at the tine of his arrest, or that Bailey unwittingly exchanged money of his ogn for the rensom money in question, not knowing that same was part of the Urschel money, He further stated that Bailey would not have been at the Shannon Ferm at Paradise, ‘Texaey in the event he had known there was 80 mich *heat” on the Places | ao A Davis alao advised that he was “acquainted with PRANK ‘NASH, but that the hed not seen him since they were in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary togethers . He also atated that he had never been definitely informed as to who furnished . the revolvers for the Lensing break on Memorial Day, but that he was cortein 1 _ Rise own mind that Frenk Nash had nothing to do with ite ot tTpen being aveationed further as to the identity of the individuals participating in the Kansas City massacre Davis atated that in hia opinian the affair was enginesred either by local Kansas City authorities or Kansas City -. gengsters in an attempt “to throw additional heat op our bunch®, inasmuch as - the date of the Memorial Day escape was so close to the date of "the Kansas City massacré, He stated that the massacre had been the subject of some discussion .- emong the members of his group as to the motives ami reasons for the seme, and: the identity of the futivitunis sho might have participated in it, but that all | members of hie group were eat a losa to understand why such a crime was effected in view of the fact that obviously the “heat* from a Federal standpoint would - be tarned on the Partietpantey and thet was we last shine © of which their gene = ~ . . + 7 ty 4 ty + eT t Pp . ¢ 7 ley ae Davis also stated that ‘the | massacre was a ridieulas matter ine 66 ter ; =‘ "ag the eriminel underworld was concerned, in view of the fact that thay could _ Rot Possibly get any money returns from same ° te ag a a an te "s oe, “Inquiry 1 was made of Davis as 7 ‘maiier he was ‘acquainted we - JOHNNY LAZIA, Kansas City politicians He stated | fat he inew ot Ain but thet g be had_ never met bim perscnadiye ° oes ss ee Boney aS te ‘Relative ‘to the ‘whereabouts of ‘Davie on . the date ot ‘the ‘Koneas “edty massacre, MRS, LOMA DAVIS, his wife, when interviewed advised that she was in Oklehome City, Okle., at the time; thet Davis arrived from the Black Rock bank job as previously described; that she saw him in Oklahoma City at that time, end in this connectian stated thet the automobile fran which the men were cut off in the Black Rock job was the seme automobile used by them in the Memorial Day break; that if the recorés could be checked with respect to the recovery
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