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454 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles, I3 California Feb. 26,1947 CPR « John Edgar Hoover, cy ihe Federal Bureau of” Investigation, Washington, D.C. L him Dear Sir;- Ef zn bel hoe T / As you know, the Black Dahlia case has been quickly hushed up, and apparently all covered up. No effort wag, really made to bring the culprit to justice. His name $-Hawkins - and his room number here ~ 405 - and all of’ his dirty work, are well knowm to the police but the rascal is still here in 405 and begging the new landlords - Mr. and Mrs Naylor - to stay! He was sunposed to have left by the I8th ~ by order of the sheriff. As for any material evidence being now available, that is possibly out of the question. For the firemen and police have been here many times " cleaning" up after Mr.Hawkins, T-saw an old mattress being brought into the house here from a truck - marked M‘62 on the back left scorner- on the first of Feb.about 12330 p.m. The new landlady says the firemen have found an enormous amount #f old papers between this house and the next - corner restaurant and saloons - and that they have been | clearing them out. The strip is only a couple of feet or so wide and directly under Mr Hawkins! fourth floor } windows, The Hoover Hotel:Company that run this place for Mrs.Striker who owns it, know about these goings-on of Mr.Hawkins and tried to aviet Mrs Bernice Benjamin j vhom they acctised of talking too much. They are almost as kind to old Hawkins as are the police. This was not Mr.Ha3kins' first offense. I heard on good authority from several sources here in the house, that a woman who had been with the "Old Policeman" - as they call Hawkins - was shoved when drunk from the roof or 4th floor and taken to the hdspital ~- probably the same ambulance that took the Black Dahlia, Andther affair that took place in his room and ended down in a book- store or Magazine shop below my window on Sth, ste and which was quickly hushed up + and the store vacated; now being used, to store liquor = wae more t than suspicious. I will never forget that poor store-keep: e! £ rs 74 screaming and being suddenly choked sete ~ FA ae: Af 7 I live} The o1d man with the white. dog eal ed eae ) that used to live here and who talked too about { rity \ this affair, has now disappeared. I am tolgya 4 se in yas a hospital from liquor poisoning! Ve. Hoping this information may be of senfiice, Q SIR RD pypced 4)