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! i | } bulk of thom wer. cvidently imposters. 1+ has beer. ortéd in the press that Diroctor Hines of the Yetoranst Bureau has said that over 90% of tho Bonus Amy were o:t-service wen, General iines made no : Buch statement. le did e tit ctatenent on July 23d thet he believed not more than 8000 veterans had ever been ~resent at any one tine, but the 677 mon not identified as vetcrans were part of the 3656 registered to whieh I have referred, (tb) Puuber of bonus xarchers with eriminnl or police records, Two sources of informtion are available on this subject, Of the 51 arrested men fingerprinted by the police prior to the riot of July 26th ani checked in’ th ‘orint division of this Department, 17, or an even one-third, hai been convicted of various offenses, inclucing larceny’, assault, sex 6ffenses, forgery, robbery, military effenses, and disorderly conduct, A uore striking result is obtained from the check by the eriisinal identification bureay of this Department of tne finmerprints of 4723 of the bons mrchers wio wore admittedly veterans and applicd for and obtained loans from the Veterans' Bureau, after Congress adjourned, for the ostensible purpese of returning to their hows. Of these 4723, 106s were found to have police records, 82¢ or nearly 1 in § of the World Yar service men among the bonus nerghers whe obtzined loans, had been convicted for various offenses, including assault, lerceay, burglary, embozzlement, robbery, felonious hasicide, forgery and counterfeiting, rate, sex offenses, and nareotic drug violations. A surmary of the police and criminal records of these :en follows: SULDARY GF POLICE RICOMS OF 4723 VICE 10 OF TH! BONUS ARY "HO APPLIED FOR LOANS PROM TIE VETERANS! BUREAU. rok Convictior Assault ... 46 2 7 37 Auto Theft . 2 ie) 6 26 Burglary veeeeeee 88 1 21 66 Carrying Concealed ‘capons 9 1 2 6 Disorderly Conduct and Vagrancyes. 107 3 38 69 Driving “nile Intoxicated . 24 ° ° 24 Drunkenness soe. » 98 1 2 95 Sybezzlement an . e2 1 pie) 3 Felonious ‘lomicide .. .- Bb ° 6 7 Forgery and Counterfeiting - 48 ° 4 “4 Gambling ......- . 4 0 2 2 Larceny Theft . - ler 2 27 138 Liquor Iawo ... . GL 3 @ 49 litary, Offenses, Lesertion, ete. 84 2 2 80 Miscellaneous ... 41 4 5 32 Narcotic Drug Laws .. 12 © 2 10 Offenses against the Caildren . ° 2 1s 0 2 6 oO 17 46 Sex Offenses (except rape} 0 q 20 Suspicion and Investigation . o 49 4 Traffic and Oo oO 4 ) 80 380 829 Total number of bonus sarchers (ex-service ven) upor. wacm finjerprints were obtained A223 Mumber of bonus marchers with police records as found from finger- prints 1069 Percentage of these bonus marchers having polies records 22.66 Total mumber of bonus ners found to heve one or more convictions 629 Percentage of marchers convieted to number having police records 26.98 Percentage of bonus rarchers having convictions to tetal number . whose fingerprints were searched 17.4% Of taose individuals convicted, 149 had one prior conviction for same offense, 46 had tvo prior convictions; 28 nad three nrior conviction: jand 26 haa more than three prior convictions, Dispositions of all arrest were not obtainable.