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¢ - Office Memorandum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENI pare, 10-24-51 BENJAMIN (BUGBY) SIEGEL, Miacellansous_ hie apartment they found a loaded 50 caliber carbine, SN 5€ the Chigago FBI office. Federal complaint against ed at Chicago on 4=1-50,, e WAS no cation at thet Mine es being identical wit Thus there ,- Was no reason to have test specimen fired from the parbine. was a suspect dn the SIEGEL murder, which took place in 1947. - * Ae stated i sau , tion with i erned ™ a srs ; iil io ii i gun oe apartment in Chicago against the cartridge cases found at the ecene of the SIEGEL mrder. The writer did not think that was correct and bx ie with the PBI a a idiibiiniiiieiiiiia ip On 10-24-51] the writer talked to told him that the FBI Laboratory Wma never tested the carbine found epsrtment in Chicago. He said he thought he had learned recently tha 8 pr r incorrect end uch test has now been made. Me tore lid nd ag the carbine ab: mentions een che: m2 on the Siegel coon: ili him <a a <2 test specimen from the carbine, which specimens had been checke y sone istics laboratory were not similar to those found at the Siegel wurder scene. Ke told hat he considera the Siegel mirder solved through the recent wurders of ‘ONY TCATO and TONY TROMBIN NO in Los Angeles. a 7 hrc No further action need be taken on the carbine at Chicago. ‘ 62-2837 ‘SEARCHED.—.—2.1 INDEXED ! 2 BR-982 SERIALIZED. LACASILED “ OCT & G10F7 Ful - LOS ANGELE”