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—= -— = - ~ a oe - ae oa —— e “tt. He PURVIS 92. i: oe eee ? a. Lf . = VERNO? C.MILIEA with aliases. ree ‘etal, ~{ OUSPIRACT 70 DELIVER FEDERAL PRISOIER . Boe OME as eo ee . an ns woth cogs : : : a4 - “pon having ‘an ‘articte rr the Gtesge ‘Delty ‘qribuné, “- van ; detea yareh £2, 1934, called to agent's attention on that morning, wf : which indicated that one J, George Zeicler haf been shot to death in - . Cicero, Illinois, agent immediately suspected that this was identi _ = tal with the George Zeiglor who hed fgrmerly lived at 430[Scoville, «9. a" _ ‘Oak Park, ani who wos nmed by art Johnson elias "Redy Price es a. i Sot procinent meriber of the cane whigh associated with Prank Bash ao 195i! aoe wh. ran . hed e . — we tigen 2 a4 Peres os - ‘Agent "proceeded ‘Yonedtetely to ‘ihe ‘Cieero ‘Police Departe . _ "mont, where he identified himself to Superintendent of Police. Michael: ae “Solar a::d Serceart Fran’: Donohue of the Cook County Coroner's office. . These men were in irect charge of the investication of the death of = =. zeicler, and Chief*Solar seemed to be relying chiefly upon the caine 7 a . and advice of Sergeant Donohue. There Were numprous persons etanding -. we in the Chief's office and also in the small rom which ie cutaide the - Chief's office, and were the camplaint desk fe located, Agent noticed ~ thet several of these mer were hewapaper men and later ascertained that’: ees many more were newspeper men, Bofore agent talked to Chief Solar or to b- Sergsant Donohue, tie various newepeaper mon were requestcd to leave the-2 Chief's office, and at that time arent indicated to these mon that be - desired to obtein as much information concerning the identity of Zeigler . ‘as might be known. Chief Solar and Sergeant Donohue offered to cooperate - _in full and indicated that they did not know the identity of this man ont _ @414 not know who hia murderers micht be. The newspeper men, during : . agent's interview, were clamoring at the door of the Chief's office,” re." ane “questing thet certein membership carda in certain associations be Selivored ” ' to them for photographing, and the Chief finally complied with their requoet and handed these carts to tho newspaper, men od be photographed. a: 7 oe : Me eo aE? _ Both Sergeant Sonohtie and hier ‘solar. ee a dostie.: ee ~ to inow why agent vas interested in this case end indicated that they. to solve the case. Since agent had never vorked with either of theso men ® before, and since tho Cicero Police Dopartment doca not bear tho best of revutotions, agent wes hesitant to tell tham the real cause of his investi- gation, but did not consider it inadvisable to tell those mon that ea man no-od celcler wes roported to have becn a former associate of Frank Hash, end egent wes interested in thie rman because of that cangland assocletion. £2. 2908 UAT