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Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd — Part 1
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winile the Heed ef the FBI Office received a wound in the
arn. Apparently the assassins started at the front right-hand
aide of the car and at least two of then proceeded srom/d the
automobile, making a complete circle and firing recklessly as
they went.
Immediately following this daring erie which shocked
the pation, the FBI institeted an intensive investigation to
identify and apprehend these maddened gurwen. Foliowing sooths
of painstaking work, with all ef the facilities at its disposl,
the FBI uscovered positive evidence that this scheme was executed
by Vernon C. Miller, Adam C. Richetti, and Charles arthur Floyds
@lso that this conspiracy was evaceived end engineered by
Richard Tallman Galates, Werbdert Farmer, “Doc® Louis Staeci, and
Prank B. Walloy. Through swbseqtent investigation Galatea,
Farmer, Stacci aad Hulloy were apprehended in connection with
this erine aad were iadicted by « Federal Grand Jury at Kansas
City, Missouri om Oetober 24, 1934 fer sonspirecy to cause the
escape of s Federel prisoner from the custody of the thited States.
All of these individeals were found guilty on January 4, 1935, ead
on the following dsy each was sentenced to serve two years in a
Federal penitentiary and pay @ fine of $10,000, ahich was the
waxinwm penalty allowed by lav.
During the FBI's investigation to locate Vernon Miller,
his body was fount om the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan om the
moraing of Noveaber 29, 1933. Through information received frou
a confidential source it appears that Miller wee shot to death
by henchsen of Longie - From available information it
seeus thet Milipr first entered the recket picture as a hired
gumeen Of Louis Buchslter, whose apprehension wm Auguet 24, 1959
by the FBI ended a two-year search for this actorious criminal.
Buchalter was reported to have taken steps to shield Miller
following the Kansas City Massacre and likewise expenied considerable
woaez to protect Vi thins, the peramour of Vernon Willer.
Iuvestigatjon disclosed that Vivien Mathias was closely associsted
with Betty Wuchalter, the wife ef Louis Bachalter, during the
time Special agents were looking for her es a mesns by which
Vernon Willer night be apprebeaded.
From the inforastion developed through a confidestisl
source, it eppears that Vernon Miller, while intoxicated, became
fmvolved in an altercation with 2 hemchwan of Longie Zwillean in
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