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_ SmaapEAN EOE ~ Ottawa, Gntario | Pari 8. SRR a A RE sae aay 8 eaten : nagar Hoover, Eet., > ee ‘ector, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bo U. 8 Department of Justice, ee ‘Washington, D. C., U. 8. A. Dear Mr. Hoover: oo ~ There is being enclosed herewith mo copy of-'the. transcript of tke testimony in the case Re of-the People of the ad <7 Michigan versus Theo- wes _ dore-Bentz, alias Theodore’Craig. This trial was Sy ener tee Circuit Court for Ottawa County, Michigan, = U.S.A., On September 24, 25, 1954, before the Hon. Freda T. Miles, Circuit Judge. The case was a trial by jury. The oopy this transcript was forwarded to me by subject Te ntz, who is presently incar- cerated in the JacéKson Penitentiary, Jackson, Michi- _ gan, where he is serving a life sentence for bank robbery. a . Enclosed herewith are two copies” of a letter which subject Bentz wrote me when for- | . warding the above-mentioned transcript. I have . read this transcript and know the Bureau has all '* ‘this inforzation in their files concerning the bank ¥ Tobbery but feel, however, that I should make the receipt of this testimony an official matter of.< _ record with the Bureau, as well as correspondence a ~peceived from Bentz concerning his eppeal of this | ease, — REOORDED & InpExaig _ corresponding with me since the time him in Burlington, Vermont, when he a ” Dee