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Al Capone — Part 19

81 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 81 pages OCR'd
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_ BATEDM — ‘fime = 8125 te hm”. . wre Ceorge Beltacr Managing Bdlter ef th Bventag Eglletin, calleé from Philagelphte ead btaed by the ewftohboard operator that you werd net avai and aeking to epeak to one of the Asstatants,/was referr to _ uso re Seltger, who was in a very bombastl mood, etated that | “they” were getting amfully sore af all ae . polttictans giving out all of the neve while the reat of the country goes or ghting Jer o lee of "het atuf sf" whtoh Aas nd substance to ft, 8 wae obvtous "o> thet ir. Seltzer wos referring to the Aearecn and Allen story = = ©& appearing tn this morntng’s Fashtngton Herald tadtcating that .- . the Attorney General had odufsed Pearson and Allen thot Capone = was betny relvased from the Lewtsburg Penitenttary at 7200 de Me a this morning and would be transported to a eanttartum. Mre = Selsser continued by quoting porttens of the story ats Oe & fn the Pearaon and Allen arttole and stated thot ce uesal ¢ Joo offtotals of the penitentiary at Leméaburg are acting like “ typical “Federal dopea" and appear te be in a trance. MTs | z Seltwer stated that news {e mews and that tf i tse ‘gotag “ be handled on the dbaaste of Denooratto polit : te Bulletin would like to know it» : ‘p RECORDLD & INDEXED 62-34 23 -}/ Ure Seltzer"s deltvery and bleod. prdgaure “uBR BR oy rapidly and I interposed at thia potat @ weigorous fre veya agatnst hte gharging the FBI with any partiqipation in Bbte33 i sttuatton, J told Mr. Seltzer that seither the Direoter : 1 the Buresu nor any other Bureau representad 3 1 OSE f! tnfornatton whatsoever conceratag Copone’s present whereadou |: Ats place af release or the data of hia rglease, TF -ezplet ‘ to Ure Seltzer that Capone had been tn the oud - Bureau of Prisons of the Departnent of Justice durtng the | entire pertod of hte tnoarceratton and that the Bureau af | Prieone operated as an independent agency within the Departrent of Justice over which the Federal Bureau of Iaveatigation had obsclutely no controle I explained to ire Seltgwer that the «+ Bureau did not know now and had not know for a constderabdle . pertod of time where Capone woe held, fron what potnt he would be released or wien he woulc be released. Ure Seltger appeared eonewhat eurprised at this and tngutred whether or not tt was not true that F3I Agents were serutng as cuarda to remove £
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