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ee leg a ee re a A A A af RS En a I A A =S- Plemmons told me that two yeare ago & young man, whose name he doea not knbw, but who is a stenographer and secretary to an attorney by the name o Curmings in Miami, Okiehoma, came to his home at Salina, accompanied by & woman, who was represented to him as being the mother of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd; that these people told hin that it was their desire to negotiate through him with the Governor of Oklahoma for the surrender of Fioyd in order that he might escape the electric chair and be given a life sentence in the penitentiary; that it was their re- quest that he, Plemons, make the arrangements for such surrender through the Sheriff at Tulsa, Oklehoms; that all "papers" necessary to the surrender be prepared and signed by the Governor, following which Floyd would surrender himself to the Sheriff at Tulea and would be taken to the county, which wea not named, in Oklahoma which would have jurisdiction of any crime that he had committed and that he be immediately sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, and that the young man and thie woman assured him that one thousand dollere would be placed in the Post Office at Salina for him, should the surrender be effected. Plemons stated that he immediately wrote to the Sheriff at Tulsa, Oklahoma, but never receive jesronee from him, but did receive a letter from F. HE. ‘Burns, of the \¥. N.*Eurna National Detective Agency, Tulsa, Oklahoma, which stated that Plemnons’ letter to the Sheriff at Tulsa had been turned over to eaid agency and the,tenor of the letter was that Burns would be @lad to handle the matter of the surrender of Floyd and requested that Plemmons bring Floyd to thejBurns Detective Agency in Tulsa, and that if ALY resus were ivrinconing, that, of course, Plemnons would be entitled to them. (The F. N. Burne National Detective Agency is not in any way connected with the W. J. Burns International Detective Agency.) The letter from the F. N. Burns Detective Agency referred to by Plemmons was exhibited to the writer and it is dated in May, 1932 and contains in sub-. stance the infomation set out in this paragraph. 1 Plemmons stated thet a week after the first visit of the woman and the young man to hie residence, they called again and he told them that the undertaking had been unsuccessful. He stated that he did not . see or hear anything further from these people until Merch 12th of this year when the young man called to see him again and told him that he was going down into the mountain country to contact Floyd and that he wished Plemmons would accompany him, as it was stil] his desire to try to effect the surrender of Floyd with the state of Okiahomg; that the young man said hia primary purpose was to have Floyd sign some /fpepsra on that day which would effect the placing of Floyd's son, Jackie Floyd, in an Indian school in western North Carolina, and that this was boing handled through the Indian Service, Department cf Interior in Washington, D.C., which, of course, re- quired the signature of Floyd on the papers. Plemmons stated that he got into a car, he thinks a Chevrolet Coach, with thia young man and they drove some sixty miles from Salina down into Westville, Okiahome and from