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-10- Murphy went to New York City, having stopped in to rent the apartment by ° ‘ himself, and later returned on June 14, 1933, with his family. fe gave hie business as a rancher snd his residence as Phoenix, Arizona. He was assigned Jie apartnent 407. He left on August 27, 1935, she said, and shortly before | he left he had in his pdssession a beautiful new Cadillac car. She said that -- * grorphy received only a fer telephone calls and made only e few calle. There ia no switchboard in this building, but merely a public telephone with several extensions. When e tenant is called on the telephone, someonehas to go to the~ apartment and call the tenant, who then goes to the booth in the lobby end .- - Qnswers the telephone. {his booth is built in and is well constructed, which | makes it impossible for persons to hear conversations. In consequence, Mrs. ; | Brockemp was not familier with the nature of the calls made or received by ° 7 the Murphys. She said that murphy received a letter from New York City, she . believed, and thet his wife, Who was supposed to heve been a Chicago girl, re- ‘ ceived & number of letters fran Chiceco. Wo mail cane to these parties after they left, although Murphy hed Fequested her to eend any mail which eame for hin to General Delivery, Phoeniz, arizona, stating that he treveled and often | Wrote to Phoeniz, arizona, in order to have ceil forwarded to him. He claimed to be a Trencher in Phoenix, and at no time did he make any mention of o possible trip to Gerueny. His wife was e Catholic, anc eack Sundey attended st. phillipts ckuren in the vicinity with tze children. ks. Brockenp seid that turphy hed indicated that be had formerly been in the real estate business on the North- west side of Chicago, but averred that he had gotten out just in time, elthough he indicated that he still had real estate holdings in Chicago. wurphy elweys: _ paid ell bills in cash, she said. , . Q _ yf ™, - + i y . 2 Mr. george G. Brown, ‘the engineer at this building, wes unter- viewed. br. Brown is very fond of artificiel bait casting, and particularly tournament casting. He would frequently practice in the lot on the South side of the Highland apartments. Im this way he came into contact with wr. Murphy, who usually parked his car in thet lot. Mr. Brown, who seemed to be very observant, said that purphy was about the sace height as agent, although he . had puch broader shoulders and was of a lerge, enguiar build, which made his . Weight uncertain, but that he weighed at least 220 1b. He stated that this . man did not eppeer to be Irish to him but rather impressed him as being a” . Sede or a Norwegien. Mr. Brown said that he had apent a considerable number of years on a ranch in the West, anc in consequence te was feniliar with 7 Testernera, end he was not at ell convinced that iturphy wes in fact a rencher. He seid that keurphy did not seem to worry about money. oO ; piers : - _ * rt we -_ ur. J. J. Gleapon, acting Superintendent, South Shore Postal “stetion, 2207 Rast 75th Street, Chicago, indicated thet there wes no removal for mE. J. Murphy.