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~s . Pickard, Ur, Taylor stated that there is a family named Parham residing = .-~. _ on what is known as the old Godwin farm, which 1s about three miles S.E..0' | ef Sunmerville; that the Parham family is supposed to have come fran... Oklahoma and that they are criminally inclined, one of the sons having . =. been killed at a nearby town when he was resisting arrest on a criminal charge of some kind; further, thet this boy's father, Tom Parham, also ~~ ~ within the last few months killed a Special Deputy Sheriff at Summerville, this being the officer who hed killed the Parham boy. Tom Parham, .- according to Taylor, was convicted at a recent term in Summsrvilie for the murder of this Sheriff, lr. Taylor added that en acquaintance of hie ..- ~ had recently gone to the Parham farm to purchase some liquor and subseqvwnt- ‘ly told him that he saw two men at the Parham farm whose identity he did not know; that these men were oleaning a gun which might have been ea | machine gun and Mr. Taylor stated that in view of the fact that the Parham family was reported to have come from Oklehoma he thought it. 2.0 0... possible Pretty Boy Floyd might have been one of these mene ty. Taylor steted that he had no descriptions whatscever of these two men and he further refused to divuige to agents the name of the person who bad seen these two men at the Parham farm. Mr. Taylor was _ unable to refer Agents to anyone who had been out at this farm, saying that so fer as he knew the Sheriff, T. A. Cook, knew nothing about these © persons, He, also,mentioned that the Sheriff's wife is seriously 111 _ at this time and that the Sheriff is spending all of his time at her... ~ bedside, 30 Agents were unable to contact Sheriff Cook, Mr. Taylor - — mentioned that he is a sslesmen, unemployed at the present time, and that . he knows nothing about Floyd other than what he has read in detoctive stories, He, also, seid that he had never heard that Floyd originally came from Georgie. br. Taylor also mentioned that in the near future it was his intention to go to the Parham farm for the purpose of buying sane liquor and that he would then communicate with the Birmingham Office, . advising if the description of these men, if they are still there, coincided | in any manner with that of Pretty Boy Fhoyd, whose photograph he stated :. be bad obteined from a detective magazine. He, also, advised Agents _ against making any inquiry whatsoever in that neighborhoods ; The Birmingham office 1 ‘up to the prevent time has received no commnitetions from li. Taylor in this respoote ~ 77 AT SIE GHAI, ALARM ias 43 @ result of the miil cover placed on mail going to Pet Gardelle Sturney, the step-son of Galates, now residing at 5 Clubview Oakperk, Montgouery, Alabane, three tracings were received in the Birminchom Office from the Postnaster at Montgomery, one being postmarked Charlotte and Auguste Ry Fost Office March 6, 1954, besring return eddress ef 323 leon ltreet, Rockhill, South Carolina. another being postmarked