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—. ~ re eee of (> ay =. x JF: 503 I KR Farch 1 ; ae 13, 1934. a EERO FOR My OUI | During telephonic conversation today, ‘agent in Charge Conroy's et . se - Kenses City atated he thought Agent Andersen should interview @ men at the are. Colorads State Penitentiary at Canon City, who has made a staterent somewhet © similar to the one made by Fide Lefue regarding the participants in the . feo Kansca City massacre. Bs stated he felt that Agent Andersen should also =” intervien the ten-year-old daughter of Vi Killer at Brainord, Minnesotag thet @ lead to this effect hed been sent to St. Paul tut it evidently had not bean taken care of. I agreed with Mr. Conroy to these suggestions. I also instructed that Kathryn Kelly should be "eased up on" folloxing Hr. Andersen's talk with ber. I called Mr, Conroy's attention to the memorandum prepared by Agent Hall at St. Paul in connection with the Breser case, setting forth the fact that some of the occuvants of the house in which ths finserprints of Frank Nash were found, sere members of the Karpls-Barker gang ond pecupante of @ house on Hennepin Avenue, wbich was the headquarters of the gang prelininary to the Bremer kidnapinz. I instructed him t: obtain a copy of thie mentorandym fron Ur. Rorer if he did not ° _| e@lready have it in his possession. ur. Conroy also called attention to the ~ ~" fact that before he left Kensas City for the fest Const he mailed to Fashineton a. . two or three dozen negatives of fingerprints shich were sedured from the beer .ci °° bottle at the place where Verne Miller was residing. Re etated he thought it mJ, was extremely important that the; be inciuted in the single fingerprint file at ” the earlicat possible | wonent. I told hin I would lbkk into tats situation . ur. Conroy ‘telephoned later todsy © ona etated he was unable to locate the mesorendrs neenared by Mr. Hall, referred to above, although the Kansas City Office is rather well informed along that angle. Mr. Conrvy called atten- tion to the fact that Hama was kidnaped on dune 15, released on the 19th, and that the Eansas City easeacre occurred on the 17th. He stated that uhen Verne Uillerts home was searched there Wpre indications thet the attic had been occu- pied. On the presumption that thg Karpis-Barker gang was involved in the Ham kidneping and in the wapoacre, he atated there might be a possibility that thay brought Hamm to Verne Hiller's place in Kansas City, Mr. Conroy stated that in his letter of February 13th, relative to analysis of the fingerprints, these fin- gerprints were taken from e clock, beer bottles, and another object. He suggestec that Ham's fingerprints be compared with these prints. I told him I would hace this done. I called ir. Conroy's attention to the fact that Mr. Hall sets forth in his menorandum that tho Essex car in St. Paul, which the Kanses City Office ‘believed to have been in the possession of Verne Miller, ia now believed to have been in the possession of Karpis insteed of Miller. Wr. Conroy will get in touch with Mr. Rorer_concern these matters. — : = ran one RECORDET }+ 2 qe = fZ€ Very truly y ; at RECOWORNVOPY PILED IN J. Edgar Hoover Dire Te Pr ee —_