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Kansas City Massacre — Part 6
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Ey the. Manager of the Crest Hotel, : tony Teland ‘Avenue, ~ nforned 5
is _Swenson that Winnie Wilitens bad moved from the Evans Hotel at jlet: }
* end ‘Evans Advenuy of May $, 2985, “ang roomed at the Crest Hotel’ ‘anti?
\-May 15, 1953, ‘at which time she wag requested to move because Gf ag.
. umpaid balance, ‘at the’ ‘time Winnie. Williams was ‘staying at the. Cy Bt.
a ‘Hotel abe was employed as @ singer and entertainer: in the Jeffrey, ‘pevern:
located at 83rd and South Chicago Aveme, ~ Previous to her ‘employzent at
tho Jeffrey ‘Tavern, Winnie Williams was supposed to ‘Bave| worked: {0
‘Pestaurant asa waitress at the corner of. 4th and Cottage Brove Aver:
Dawson was unable to recall whether mail delivered to the ‘Crest, Hotel,
efter Wionie Williams' departure ‘had been delivered to her; that. ta, 27
: Whether ahe had returned for it 6r whether it head been forwardeA eo SDe
‘Marehall Hotel, 7232. North Laballe Servet: sie. Mabel: Bingere zocn 159
Sparen ai 83rd Btreot ‘ana ‘pouth ‘Chicagd-avenue, - “end Qiscoverca }
_. discreetly interviewing a bootblack 4n the ‘washroom that Winnie: Willians
ad “ad left on April -S0, 1955, or May 7, 1938, the bootblack being sure 327
7" $hat £4 was on @ Bandey.” McSweeney also ‘dnterviewed the owner of. the
Jeffrey Tavern and reported to Agent Swenson that he had obtained °
: | gsimilar information, The Jeffrey Tavern is & beer garden and girls -
ons , are changed at thet _Aocation every. month, Minnie Williams was. ‘allowed = 4
a “t0 goa week ‘earlier ‘than her month due to the fact that she did aot
i report. every evening for work as she neue haye donee.
Si ‘The ‘preseat operator et ‘the’ arehail Hew, ‘one “Leon mayer
ted. “gpet he ‘had obtai
eeitaeien of the fpotel on June 9: "2038; “and thet he hed nO one;
the name’ of nora peel or ‘Winnie Willians ‘Living in’ his hotel.” fs
Mayer eaid that the hotel was in the hands of a- trustee, Mre"ae We Fulton,
3s North LaSalle Street, and that ‘the former manager. end operator. was ‘one |
a “pis, ‘31 ‘Worth LaSalle ‘Streot, © wae interviewed. “ge ‘gaia that. -Leon. my
had teken ‘possession ef the Marshell ‘Hotel ‘en June ‘7th anc jee Lester
Rady ‘was the forwer manager.” :Ho- pooks: ‘were “‘tomied ‘over. by wert
Sheen paigy ‘and there was fo my ‘ef. determining eho. the ‘mieste &
“Marshall ‘Hotel were prior to June 7th. .
ra friend that. Rady ‘Was staying et the Hotel ‘Media, “ute ‘Clements, °
a “put would be. beck “in Chicago by July. Ast, at which. Sime g hs. some
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