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ERZSSSNEN SENSORS al ® $8 a.2c0-/ ey d (7 THR ATTORKEY GENERAL Septertar Lf, 27 -Birgctor, FBI LOuUlS CAP AGRA ‘, CHANL:S GIOS CFS. > . PHELLIP D*aNDHEA - Se Pav DE LUCIA, alias Paul Ricca a JOHN ROSELLI; BRIBZEY in accordance with your request of September 15, 1s Conpimecscan mrad BE. Busbey (f. - I11.) was interviewed at Chicaze, Tllinois, br Special Areats of this Bureau on September 15, 1917, and he furnished the following infowalloi. Congressman Busbey states thit "rcmors are flying around to the effect that a quarter of a million dollars was paic to effoct tiw release of bho ex tioned convicts? and it is suspected that ths mosey maiciy have pacces Loz wR a the bands of one Paul Tillon, an attorney of St. Io Levis, Wiesoutli. lar, usc. * & | The so declares that his sele source of information in connection with wis oo... James Loherty, a reporter for the Chicaco Daily Trifmns newsparer, Wee lea rei 17k only comlucted escme investigation inte this ratter in Chicars, Sut di: cB Aetle, - Missouri, and Westingten, 2. C., as well, ie also etetcd ther Fach billion 51. Louis, Missouri, is believed tc be mixed up in this aatter and oue hy en wentioned that Dillon had representcd John F. Kick ani Clyde weston, Vics Presi~/ 2 coat and Busincss Lanacer, respactively, of the iaternatipsal Unisn of cri iun . Picture Cperators, St. Louis, Missouri, who he said tere apreruitiy duvalyca di.” Similar difficulties with rackcteers, r+ f ~ The files of this Bureau ere being suerched for Luformsctien costars. Paul Dillon, Jolin P. Wick and Clyde Weston. @his informaticn wil) be teruip Fu you as soon as it is compiled. - Congressman Busbcy continued to say that James beharty, the renhctct for the Chicavo Tslly Tribune, is of the 3 oplaton that “the Attorney Gener: he in a better pogzition to give leads in this case then auyone else in the ar dd 2 He therefore surgested that you should be consulted for inforuation in c::: nection with this matter. Local press erticles in Chicags have quoted Conrcressnan Uusbey; to the effect that two "prominent Chicarcans" were amony those who inierceded for tho - * reloase of these convicts. In the intervier he atsted in the strictesi of genfidence that ha Beuld not be at Phe! surprised ar the tes pro.dnent hndsy * al referred to were clerzymen, and oro of then tight be Bishop Yernard gd. Sucil ses 2 1 Unicage The laiter, he indicated, was to be transferred within ten deoy:. cd : s Wat ee