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eo _ eg wee > ste ee Sem erm me = na ce fs ner eam cane tome ae aati” oes J EDGAR HOOVER ; J , . | DIRECTOR ra + 3 a . * Federal Bureau of Investigation : United States Bepartment of Sustice a . : oa Ottawa, Ontario — \ - vA wid50.. July 20, 1943. Personal and a ial J \ Edgar Hoover, Esq., . Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Dear Mr. Hoover: . There is being enclosed herewith copy of the transcript of tke testimony in the case of the People of the Stategepf Michigan versus Theo- doreBentz, alias Theodore’Craig. This trial was weld at the Circuit Court for Ottawa County, Michigan, U.S.A., on September 24, 25, 1934, before the Hon. Fred T. Miles, Circuit Judge. ‘The case was a trial by jury. The copy Geatnis transcript was forwarded to me by subject Ted“Bentz, who is presently incar~ cerated in the Jaékson Pénitentiary, Jackson, Michi- gan, where he is serving a life sentence for bank robbery. Enclosed herewith are two copies of a letter which subject Bentz wrote me when for- A warding the above~mentioned transcript. I have S$“ yvead this transcript and know the Bureau has all er this information in their files concerning the bank | a at robbery but feel, however, that I should make the {'s ‘i ;' ypeceipt of this testimony an official matter of 1A” record with the Bureau, as well as correspondence aw kk 5 received from Bentz concerning his appeal of this Vseeee Peooror types (FY 5 7 | 5° As you Schr Ted Be has-been corresponding with me since the time Ij‘first} met ! him in Burlington, Vermont, when he a preg c$°19 1943 © ae Beg. . zr. > ‘ fr, oe, ee 719 | re 39