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Al Capone — Part 5
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WEE =0001%02 $2500.00, He would not state who received the balance but would
- furnish the proéf if assured of a light sentence in the case, When asked how he
wt got his part of the money out of the Penitentiary, he stated that when he was release
Se that early that morning he.took a big dose of salts ant that be placed the $250¢00
oh". hich was two $100 bills and eo $50 $111 -in"s finger steal: Lowed abiie, “<hat™
when he went to a hotel in Atlanta, ich wag run b
__ ,f@ Toom and that when the salts worked that ‘he passed the fingsr ‘ptall ah ,¢ot
tained the $250.00, He said 2 changed’ the &e dil} for ‘him ‘and’ that
had one of the porters to mt 9 i
and be got thé other $100 bill chim ged
; he name of the banker who sha 4
“ Betore making eny “furthey fidteent pelative to this matte:
the Hon, Jim Smith, Us Se Attorney, Birminghen, Ale, end’ Judge
- District Court, Birmin, » be interviewed and acquainted with this matter weet
the request that he, be advised as to what the Court would do with his
ease pending against him if what information he furnished relative to the Ue 8 Pen=
“Atentiary at Atlanta, Ga. , proved: of value to the Governments :
“$
‘Special Agent De 0. “smith, Aisgiased the principal fects of instant ease dain
Hon, Jim C. Smith, United States " atto meyég Birmingham, Alabana, who advieed confiden-
tially that he had filed a complaint agains on the case in
.:. Mississippi, primarily for. the. purpose of insuring prosecution,
state courts there on a charge of burglary; that in his opinion is exaggera-
ting the information relative to his association with Capone in the U, Se Penitentiary |
at covah Ga.; that, however, an agent of thie Bureau is authorized to instruct
Te.
that if he rey furnish information relative to she Gepone case, “which is
@ and which can be established qofinitely by thorough investigation by this
Bureau, Ke will see that the proper officials are informed that RN bas coopera
~ ted in thie case, when he is called for trial on, _ te EE cae we ,
y
“"the United Sta’ ney ‘in Birmingham ants at thoroughly understood ‘that.
he 1s not encouraging to misrepresent any facts to him; 2 :
stould furnish all the reliable information available, after which further cons '
‘fion will be given to hie manner of cooperations ‘ :
on May 21, 1935, agent reinterviewed t th State Penitentiary, Perch
meng Mississippi, and advised him that if he, Would furnish information rela~
tive to the Capone case, which was reliable and whieh could be established definitely
_.by thorough investigation, that the United Statea Attorney, Jim Smith, Biemsnghem,
Alebama would see that the proper officials. were informed that he,’
erated in this case, when he is called fo) ria, on the panes
CY os vis00 that he was expecting his father ana othera over t6 see ‘him
the first Sunday in June and that he wanted his father to talk to the United States
Attorney, Birmingham, upon hia return and then write him end. if an agent would come
back to see him in about 10 days after the first Sundgy in June he felt like he would
be in a position to furnish infomation that would be reliable and material in this
a CBBC.
UNDEVELOPSD LEADS; The BIRMINGHAM OFFICE at Parchman, Mississippi, will re-
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