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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 1

59 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Mar 29, 1927 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang · 58 pages OCR'd
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1 TAA pote + TA Te aS eres ot at Te ee nae. _ a _ - D Hiscral Binvewst af Subestigation * al. S, Department of dusiice 610 Alonzo “ard Hotel Building, Ahardas South lal: ‘obas aberdgoar Np ye en © October 30, 1936. Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: 7 RE: UNhNQWN SUBJECTS 3 (Alleged Members Furple Gang, Detroit, Michigan) Identification - (Fingerprints) Bureau file #62-29632. —s+ —— Reference is made to e letter from the Aberdeen Berea: Office dated October 7, 1936. (bc) On October 25, 1936, the Aberdeen Bureau Of ceived from the Oklahoma City Bureau Office a letter signed by of Fert Sil], Oklahoma, who was formerly A member of the Sioux Falls, Dakota Police Department. In this i <2 that the, lu which was removed from the head of Jo orwarded to the’ (Ball- istic Department of the Technical Laboratery, Federal Bureau of Investign- tion, Washington, D. C.) last spring, exact date not furnished. in a small box, and that iis box also contained two test bullets which had beon fi fired from a 032 aliber revolver, found.on an outlying street, the day after Kluthe's ody was found in the river. The letter further advises that the bullet removed fren Kluthets head was apparently identical with a number of cartridges found in Kluthets overcoat pocket, and that five of these cartridges were missinc from the box of builets in the pocket. Further that the bullets found in the pocket were so water soaked that it had been impossible to make a conm- parison test of the revolver which was previously mentioned. NEN (BOY ) ( If further information is desired relative to the pullets forvarded to the Bureau, s furnished his addrese as Box 21, Fort $111, Oklahoma. : 43 /f ) s . Very truly yours, vf 7 : wee WERNER Hart 4A led
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