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, Mr. NAaTHay . oj 2. S. Department of Justice Bosceme of Inbestigation Mr. COWLEY. 7. Mr. £€0¥ ARDS Mr. KGAN es 503A U.S. Court House & P.O. Bldg., oN A 4 Salt Lake City, Utah, aoe X + March 9, 1934. {> a 4 PRRSONAL. = 4 Director, ‘$2 CORDEDL a =. Division of Investigation, ‘je - ea U.S, Department of Justice, INDEED - oe Washington, D.C, , ’ “: Dear Sir: a WYN In a conversation with Mr. Gilbert Mecham, U.S. Marshal at this city, today, he, in discussing matters in general made known that he delivered teon onion, who was 0 sentenced in U.2,. District Court, Salt Lake City, Utah, upon pleading guilty to a charge of post office robbery, to serve 33 yeere in the U.S, Fenitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, to the U.S, Fenitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, on or ebout December 20, 1933, “a Leon Epmier was arrested at this city by the local 7. police with an associste named GeorgetKerr who was under a indictment at St. Faul, or winneapolis, Minn., on a post office a robbery, in which rubvery Cus }Schaeffer has been indicted. _ It also appears that Gus Schaeffer was indicted at Salt Lake ff City, Utah, for a post office robbery, together with Epmier, Kerr, and othera, >) Mr. Mecham stated that on the trip to the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, Epmier was talkative, and steted, among other things, that he knew who was responsible for what is known as the fValentine Vassacre”™, which took place at Chicago, I1l1., and it “is believed by the U.S. Marshal that Epmier could furnish information of vaiue in the "Kansas City Nassacre” and in the Hamm kidnaping, if he was so inclined, Vr, Mecham believes that Epmier would probably help the Government in these matters if he was appreached properly, since he is in fear of the Toughy mob and others, since it 1s known to these gangsters, and his past gangster associates, that he was. ‘one of the Covernment informants in clearing up numercus pest an ; office jobs which were cleared up some short time ago, and §3..°° 7° & result of inforzation which he furnished the post office a department secured approximately @ quarter of a million, follars:: ‘in bonds end other valuable securities, a ats SUES DESTROYED a