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ly to the promise made thrq fe News yesterday, of safe duct for Lepke if he agreed to oe himself up. ; Meanwhile the police, with @O Eee P and still cameras recording a . event for posterity, began pri on new circulars 2 $25,000 reward. € > The ci which pro $ ery Pe Ss that information will be recg in “absolute confidence,” coq By WARREN HALL. ; 2 . fingerprints, pictures and acription of the fugi . Lepke is taking the baths in Colorado Springs... Lepke, officers, who will receive the wearing dark glasses and a beard and walking with a slight every part of the country, @F limp, is living in a furnished room on the East Side and only Fised to sere eae Lenke comes out after dark . . . Lepke went to Russia on a fake. be serving a sentence some passport and is now in Lubi-® for a minor offense. anka Prison . Lepke has a cabin in the Catskills, but be careful, because the only en- Prospective captors were 3d that Lepke was wealthy and trance is covered by a hidden machine gun. ential, that he had conneq with all important mobs iq country and that he was qhenter of baseball games. More than 300 people who knew exactly where the nation’s top- ranking public enemy could be found confided his whereabouts to the police yesterday and sat back to await the arrival of a check for $25,000. or $30,000, if the Govern- i ment kicked in with its share. " ‘on eral Government, Capt.. Conrad Rothengast, Edgar Hoover, The News charge of the special “Get Lepke . 3 fuad of the N York police, sai abled to assure Louis ( , Buchalter of safe conduct tnere didn't’segm to be a clue in the hundregs cf tips. But never- theless the flood of mail that poured into his office during the first twenty-four hours after the; Know Him? It’s worth $30,000 to you. ' See page 24. Jury Meets in Secret. + charges. or his intermediary will eporters finally discovered that the jurors had convened in a sixtn reward was increased for Lepke ¥ floor courtroom of the Federal Buchalter was carefully read and |! Courthouse, to which it was pos- sorted. Wl eible to bring witnesses through a \ : 7 i sible to bring ase \ D.C. at National 7117, ar “We're going to investigate |) private passageway from the of- | every bit of information w re- | fices of the Federal Bureau of 1n- ceive, no matter how fantastic it: vestigation on the same foor. may sound,” Rothengast = said A gray-haired woman and a, “Most of the mail we got tod vf portly middle-aged man were wait- , seemed to be from cranks, but wef ing in an anteroom to testify, but can’t be sure. And we're taking | Gahill’s assistants declined to re-: no chances.” . veal the identities. § Capt. Rothengast's new office. ‘After listening to a brief addres \ next to that of Assistant Chi by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jerome © Inspector John J. Ryan, resembled | Doyle, a,farmer G-Man, _the Jury? the headquarters of an army in began its monumental task of; mses he. fieldag A constant stream of ff studying 500,000 pages. of FBis eee. detasives flowed in and out toff notes on the nationai crime ') receive assignments, report on and its “underground railway” u investigations or interview in-f| signed to aid such fugitives 4s formants. ~ Lepke the Leopard. iments will be made for : ‘render with complete rs will make no Qver it all was a veil of secrecy equalled only by attempts t#cover up a simultaneous burst of activity in the Government's anti-Lepke camp. So anxious was United States ttorney John T. Cahill to conceal the operations of his new Lepke Gtend Jury that he insisted “Ye n't even know where it wijs 5 Bieeting. Louk for Surrender. So concentrated was the drive to! capture the racketeer that authori- ties would not be surprised if he alized the futility of his flight! ahd surrendered rather than fate the prospect of a none-too-gen e efpture. CLIPPING FROM NEY YROK DATLY NEWS, pate. RUG 8 1939 FORWARLEJ BY NEW YORK DIVISION