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Houston, Texrase . June 20, 1933. MEMORANDIM TO - SPECIAL aGENT IN CHARGE: This morning about 10 alv., Pred C. Kohut, resifence . Milby Hotel, Houston, Texas, called at the Federal Building md informed me that Mr. Homer C, Howell, 710 East 10+1/2 Street, re Housten, reported to him that Mr. R. J. Harrell, Box 212, = 8 =. 9° 9, Galveston, Texes, who is employed as a Messenger for the United © =. - | . Fruit Dispatch and the Southern S, 3, & Transport Campany, told)»: him, Howell, thet while he was on a street corner in Prescott, =§.- | . Arizona on Friday, June 16, 1033, s mn stepped up to him anf = eeked him if he would be there for a while, and when he informed =.” the man thet he would, this man asked him to hold a package and he would return in a short time; that he, Harrell, waited about two hours and when the man did not retum, he took the package with him on the train and upon examinetion of same found it cone tained a full loaded sub-machine gun; that he, Harrell, has this ee gun in his possession in Galveston and would not turn it over to. ss, anyone but a Government Agent. , SO Ss Mr. Kohut stated that upon learning the above he sent | a telegram to the Director of the United States Bureau of Investie | ; - gation, and that I would likely get a request from the Director to. 5) ' gake an investigation of the matter. : me In compliance with the Director's telegram, which you relayed to me by telephone, I ascertained thru the United Fruit = — Company in Galveston by telephone where I might locate R. J. Harrell, -... and telephoned him, advising him I would call and see him in Galves- ae ton. I immediately proceaded to Galveston and located him at 409 =. |.- List Street, and be was interviewed at the Federal Building and made ‘the attached affidavit, which is self-explanatory. He stated he pet told Mr. Howell the story about the gun simply to excite Mr. Howell's ; curiosity and told him to get his furtile brain to working end figure. out why the man would give him a machine gun to hold end then run —_ away; that Mr. Howell) had et one time informed him he was stulying detective work under a former Government detective, whose neme he could not remenber, but who evidently wes Fred Kohut, ani he sinply gave Horell the story as a problem to figure out, not knowing that 4¢ was going to be related to someone else and cause en investigation. - Barrell stated he informed Howell about the man giving him the gap se when b& taiked to Howell on June llth, and not on June 16th, es - - i Sh, stated by Fred Kobus. De 28 eS Sas Meme BO NAG R-RIVUE-Bf