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t ronan ropes re) 5 Office Memorandum + onrrep STATES GOVERNMENT To: SAC, LOS ANGELES DATE: AUGUST 27, 1947 Aorwmu : SAC, OKLAHOMA CITY SUBJECT: BENJAMIN BUGSY SIEGEL (Deceased) Information Concerning Please be advised that w Oklahoma, recently an Agent of t nformed by’ ssistant County Attorney, tha’ who recently surrendered to the Sheriff of Jefferson County at Waurika, had informed the Sheriff at that time that he possessed pr informat: the identity of SIEGEL'S mirderer. This information regardin, urrender and his reported information regarding instant murder was immediately brought to the at: i the proper authori- ties in Los Angeles, who subsequently ciate nel cmon and were somewhat o the faot that they had been bothered with such ee ee bitter criticism of the manner in which the Los Angeles ce Department publicized criticism toward the Sheriff's Office recerding QE tatoncnt to officials of Jefferson County. WI ter eavised that inmediately preceding the Btw ser liver, was transferred from the County Jail at Waurikea on August 12, 1947, to Missouri, to answer charges p einst him for car theft made a final oral statement, ic! lll he was not repart to the Los Angeles police because o: 6 objeotionable attitud feels that was shi the Los eles Police Department. In this final statement, according t eclared that he had fired the fatal sits which killed SIEGEL end that he used a carbine rifle. He stated that a short time following the murder he disposed of the weapon by throwing it into a 1 lake ne hway leading into Oak Ridge, Oregon, from the cout informe that this lake is between the highway and a railway trac about one mile south of Oak Ridge. He further advised that he walked around the lake looking for a deep place in which to throw the weapon and finally disposed of it by throwing it in the lake at # point nearest the highway. lafter volunteering this information, requested that it be be treated in the striotest confidence, and he repeated his desire to withhold this informati the Los Angeles Police Department because of their lack of interest in riginal confession. is of interest to note that CD - ubseq bx is! the above information, confirmed the fact that made such a statement ~ {