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EE EEE EEE ADELE a arena -eirlin , | 0 } Atlanta 91-49 Continuing, Bentz stated thet Nelson later informed ‘ie him that he, Nelson, Carroll, Yan Meter, Doyle, Fisher and "Freddie* pa _- se see. a focided to rob the Peoples Savings Benk and that they wanted infor —__ ee “2 >. gemt to assiet them in their preperationse Bentz admitted he fur=77 > --: aE “nished them a set of Indians license ‘plates which had deen issued. Sis * to him under the neme enier, with the understanding that these ; . plates were not to be used im the actual robbery. Informant ad--, mitted he loaned Nelson a machi ne gun, ‘a rifle and the tacks tos prevent pursuit; that he again “cased” the benk in Grand Hayeo Por ..”: them and also prepared the get-away thert but that he aia mt ar Weipate fn the actual robbery of this datke . Ls : of the Peoples Savings Bank at Grand Haven, Michigan, Nelson come --=+:. - _ $0 bim with about $20,000 worth.of Travellers/Cheques nies 4! that informant purchased this loot from Helson for $5,000 less $300,” the latter amount being the allowance which Nelson made to compensate - informant for the loss of informant's machine gun, which bad been ae abandoned during the robbery. With regard to the disposition of the }” - — tonis and. Travellers Cheques which be had acquired from Nelson, Bentz ‘s 7 stated he turned the Cheques over to his brother Ted, who bad agreed) ‘to. dispose of them and who actually did dispose of them both in this country and in England. ncn indenieainneae a Concerning his brother Ted Bentz atated Ted was never ‘Anvolved in a benk robbery; that fed lacked the courage and was too | _ "weak" to enter a bank “waving a gun"; that Ted was in Long Beach, {F3 Indiana only two hours during the entire Summer of 1955; that Ted: - ie met two menbers of Nelson's gang during this short visit but that Ted did not receive any infomation concerning the proposed robbery. of the Grand Haven bank and certainly was not requested to partici- pate in the robbery of this bank because no intelligent bank robber © oa would enlist an inexperienced man like Teds. Informent further tated that all the evidence presented against Ted in his recent trial at Grand Haven, Michigan consisted solely of a nisteken identi fieation fe _ and the fact that Ted had disposed of the Travellers Cheques which had been stolen from this banke Ae ce A n . we oy . wy ele Ota wh: ae some *. Continuing, Bentz stated that “the bonds which he pur" “chased from Kelson and which were part of the loot of the Peoples © _ Savings Bank, were buried by informant and thet ne ene but informant .. Knows the exact spot in which these bonds were hidden, ‘Asked ‘to fur ' mish @ description of the place where these bonds were buried, Bentz he ~ stated that "if you drive from New Buffalo, Michigan toward Michigen” City, Indiana over highway #12, you'll have to pass highway #20, ‘which > runs into highway $12 and just about 400 feet before reaching the inter-