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. 4 a . - frnomes vom me, . _ *-* . UNITED. STATES Go. 2R}.aENT ~ “Memorandum TO : Director, FBI Hi SAC, Cleveland (80-23) -" SUBJECT: ATTORNEY GENERAL'S VISIT TO CLEVELAND | A . DECEMBER 3 AND 4, 196} RoknSsk 2 EA VEL On Friday; December & I had a conferefi with United States Attorney Merle M. “McCurdy conc the new gambling statutes, and he mentioned that impressed with the Attorney General's interest in northern Ohio. He said that it would appear that ounlV) Focal point for this type oi investigation should be~ Trumbull and Mahoning Counties, and he was considerin requesting the Department of Justice to appoint an Agsistant United States Attorney to be assigned to that area. He said Judge Frank J. Battisti was from Toungstowss bath: and would like to have his court there. Ary ape _ McCurdy also stated that while the Attorney Me General was in Cleveland, he had been questioned closely ry > A oP i concerning tha BnRRY HARTMAN MN: IEYPERY DERYINS ae el er Se ol easy AS oA A B26540 2 O65) ar Wat it , ae A £054 2 @ £0638, mathe gy Victim, Civil Rights case, which was the shooting of a 6 Negro by a Cleveland Police officer on September 5, 1959. (This matter was presented to a Federal Grand Jury on April 25, 1961, by U. S. Department of Justice Attorney ‘Arthur B. Caldwell, and the Federal Grand Jury failed to indict DUNN.) McCurdy said he had advised the Attorney |[tétorne of the outcome of the DUNN case, whereupon the A ttorney General told him he understood there was a new ase of this kind in Cleveland, and inquired as to the — ||basic facts. McCurdy said he told the Attorney General that he was not too familiar with it, but that two detectives had gotten into a scurrle with a Negro by the pane or RUGLEY, and as a result the Negro had been killed. McCurdy asked me if we had received any complaint under the Civil Rights statutes on this case. I told him we had not, and that if we did receive a complaint, it would af E submitted to the Civil Rights Division of the Department 1g F <3 pec | 81961 < ANS saat of Justice as to advice as to whether or not ee eS should be instituted. 3 * -Bureau (Enclosure SOD) 27 0 hol 1-Cleveland p> aan V3 4 DEC 961 ol VOY NG son A O WT NA 882 Lee | “Wem ft TT ERAT ee