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saat Sate eA EOS AA Ns i ae Mra “sy yee CLARK Mc KERCHER ; t? BATTERY PLACE, NEW YORK GEORGE LINK, JR. -. - - - way - - a ; ¥ ” —~ - "Mc KERCHER & LINK ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW ABSOCIATED wrth BIMS WELCH & SODMAN MARQUETTE BUILDING CHICASBD CHAS. Ww. MORTIMER WILLIAM 4. OF FLEY Wp en et ce ne ere duly 14, 1920. My dear Mr Mackey: ~ I have delayed answering your letter of the 12th instant for the reason that I have been emieavoring to as- certain the facts as to which you enmguire through the files ef the local office of the Bureau of Investigations. fFhese records, however, are quite evidently in- ecomplete or a portion of them have been misfiled, so they afford little or no information. I find from the stub of one of my personal check books that under date of July 14, 1919, I issued to the or- | der ef J.T.Suter, Acting Chief, three checks, as follows: “One Tor is returns sf an shvance ef thet amount by the Chief of the Bureau from the Special Fund to - Bivision Superintendent DeWoody for use as "marked money" in a payment to be made the prospective defendant in the —— ease of the U.S. va.Marks, and which J found in the safe upon my return to New York, the money having bean recovar- ed st the tine of the arrest ani teken from the person of the aefeniant, ani the ease heving bom elesel. One for $250 to refund the advance to me from this seme fund for emergency use. One for $100 im settlement of special afivance .w Mr .BSuter for the expenses of agents Getailed to Snard the — bome of the than Attorney General. These aijustments were made » by 2 me a8 8 . prejini- mary to leaving the service ani embraced e11 amounts for which I was liable. _ PF ge to the eredit item of $202 which appears in favor, I recall that when I originally took charge of the New York office in the latter part of 1911 I found in the safe two ens dollar bills, taken from or surrenéiered by victims in a "Green Goods" case, haying bean sant @s allegei samples sf the counterfeit monagy Kee be sold a by the sexufifience men. eases haf been disposed ef but void a ? The with these sample bills. At the time Special Agent Adous Gelivered le a re Re