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age OS. US Bepataet Jute 9. [edatsis Buren of Intestigation 625 lafayette Building, . Detroit, Michigan, July 5, 1933, ; ' - Res UNENOWN tye gt pee United States Bureau of Investigation, - OBSTRUCTION OF sUSTIGE Ome oe Washington, De Ce - ~ +. + , ‘deaver to deliver Federal: -.- a - :°. Prisoner Frant@nash. oe _. . -Dettoit No. 62-690, Dear Sir: os Reference is made to a letter dated July 3, 1933 from the St. Paul office to the Detroit office requesting certain information regarding Verne mo. C.Qiller, alias VernePHiller. On this date I forwarded to the Bureauand ©; | also the Kansas City office a telegram stating that this person ie not want- — ° ed at the present time in Michigan. In this connection I have just inter- ~ viewed Captain I. HeyMarmon of the Michigan State Police in person at the’ "|. Detroit office and We advises me that he is satisfied that Miller partici- ©}. pated in the robbery of the bank at Holland, Mich., about two years ago re but due to the fact that the main witnesses in the case were 80 unreliable . it has not been possible to take any action against Miller. “The difficulty 77°) experienced by the authorities in this robbery was that the witnesses seem + ed to be mmable to identify es a participant in the robbery anyone whose - _photograph was shown them. oe, a ay hes Captain Marmon, while being interviewed about this matter, stated ~ that he had a reliable confidential informant in Chicago, J1l., from whom Dae he had obtained information about Miller but was not in a position to dis- nm elose the name of this informant. The informant in the past, according to >< - Captain Marmon, haa been a bank robber but is now up in years and hes lost -... bis nerve and has not been in on any robberies lately. Also, Captain Marmon’.":.- atated that this man is wanted on a amall charge - not by the Government - °°. - and that he has been holding this over his head to get information from ee This informant has served a term in prison and is acquainted with all the bank robbers of any consequence who operate out of Chicago, St. Paul, : .: . City and St. Louis. He has furnished valuable information to the Michigan” \ _ State Police and Captain Marmon believes that this man is ine position to «. gain information on the activities and whereabouts of practically all the -- Bs friends of Frank Nash who was recently shot at Kansas City. It would be-. y useless to bave this man contacted for information by any other officers, — 0 _ Captainiitermon estates that he has no assignmer him to Ghicago in the near future but that he would ) in this case and if the Coumispioner of the Michigan "gO AUG ly rg?