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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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AUTNDR EN me Demis + we _ oaase : - a mage a LER ae Pe Eg Et yl Bg LR Te oly on gt oret g 'ylotim, coin. n Sat be noted ‘that the suspects in both? on , Cases: calancide in ‘pert, and the investigation looking ‘toward the apprehension r of sanch _cuskecte | who, appeared’ in both cages was carried on by agente yer of ee 1%: ae . ste ae a fhe Wi D ge * te 3 oer! ie Ce " et TEES fre” “special Agent in Charge Terner Hanni,’ st. ‘Paul, “‘Winnesota, °: ‘pailed tne Chicazo Division office by telephone and informed Speci Agent — WF. A. Smith that “he bad secured information to the effect that one Big Homer had lived sometime during the summer of 1933 in the vicinity of 7let and o . Jeffrey avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and hed been driving a Cadillac cer at - thet time. In addition, Special Agent in Cherge Hanni stated that it was . | believed that Big Homer head married in 1925 or 1924 a Chicago girl, at. which - “time peul Yhitesen's orchestra had -played at the Wedding reception.” For; ¢he “S Ineormation of the Los angeles offi 38 and other offices unfamiliar’ wi th cer- / pain fects ‘in thie case, it will be noted thet she neme of one Big Homer’ alias wede Billy, whosé true name has hever been “ascertained; has been prominently mentioned as a bank robber and an associate of Yerne tiller, Frenk“Nash end - other well known gengstera, and it is entirely possible thet. this men, may have participated in the Kansas City massacre or in the Bremer kidneping. one of . the first authentic accounts of the existence and activities of Big Homer is contained in the report of Specie: grent A. R. Gere, Selt Lake City, Uteh, | _ dated 6/26/33, . in which one arthur f/Tohnson alias “Red, ‘rice, who ig Dow serv- ing'a life sentence for murder in the Colorado State Penitentiary et Canon |. City, cfeterens indicated age One possible participant: in the massacre Was: ee ee rd am ‘+. one Gus[Stevens alias Janes Street, Chicago, Yilinoia, ‘which was @ Cigar store, ‘and that this indiviguel* . ‘pelpea' Frenk Fesh nlece the ‘gune “in Leavenworth pen: tentiary tor the attempted “db . purthér reference will be made to this individual under the nemé of Gus|stone since Edward‘woley alias Edward @ elias EdwarctDoll, fugitive, ' ¥. 0. 1214, has indicated that gahglend has pointed to this han as the party who handled the machine gun in the massacre. Johneon also named one Big Homer _ €8 a poasible man who handled the gun, stating that this individual Was abdout fifty years of age, height 6:2* or 3*, weight 225 2b., full facé, a brown, hair, brown eyes, dark complexion, candinevian race, nickname swede: ihly.. Johnson also naned, one “Shotgun* fegler, whose name; | it was pubsequer tly - “learned, de George ziegler. . his very likely is not the” true neme.of this . individual.” Ziegler is described, as about thirty-two years | of age, 618" or. ‘Qn 69 ib. ,” ‘eir Ment, ~eyee 2 light, bite, complexion light, ex: ; 40 heicht,. weight 2 Heaton Duteb mr “fo ltl Si aaa an he ApS Seasetoned ee ecreae oye Dr addition ‘to these. ‘men, Johnson “aléo nened one big ‘yom,’ whom SeesereS ne ideftitied as Harvey Bailey, and it will be noted that Beiley used the - — alias "fom\prennan® frequently in and around Chicago, Illinois, and Verne pcill- now decaased, e other members of the gang. bos om: od tevens, ‘who received his mail at 1234 Hest Madiso..
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