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TA ei ee Ba a EE a OR ae ae i a Se ie i Sage es : boy pte _ * em, woe eet ) | Bepartuent of Justice, Bureau of Juvestigatton. -. Oklahoma City, Okla., - ¥ wht asin ah slate ahi: OS eG BUREAU oF INVES TIEATIC! ie NOV 221923P Md DirAisatal susTice . . oo. Movember 7. of twentieth, | . “a wt Bureau of Investigation, Fiment of Justice, ,. '. ATTEN TION Washington, D.C. 7” -HR. HOOVER wo We B. (BILL) | SMITE | # ee GERERAL INTE! SEM ply sion” ‘*. Covent ns truc-bions from you, on September 29, 1625 ex-Agent 2. eisa ‘was employed as Special Employe Zor Sixty days, to stigate the atove entitled matter. bong Boe | 3, It was also requested at that time that agent Barkhausean of ”. = ,.ohe Denver office be assigned assist him in this investiga- . &" tion.-+ It resulted that Agor'tyfarkhavs en was going to te in. *, Grand Jury and court in a few days, and it seemed not worth. “-while to heve him come for the few days that it might kave ~~ -bean- possible for him to have been here, so that the matter of ‘Agent Barkhausen come to assist ir. weiss in thie in- fon was. postponed. ; : . | re E. Smith case, While attending court at Tulsa, srdmore and =. ‘ Lawton, I have assigned other work to him in those towns, whieh has kept him tusy during the entire time. While at Lawton, on: ecount of the great floods that we had xn@ and.the impossi-:,* , bility of being able to eet witnesses to court, almost nothing was done for a week in the trial of cases in court, tut it not ‘being possible to have Mr. weiss go to O8uge County to con-" ‘tinne this investigation and return, Agent assigned other work. |. Lawton and dart Sill to him“to do while there, awaiting the. Stal of cases on the docket. .. a