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dea tetene we ee Me a at Ae Ae we tee ae Wr ahs t > ap %.. Microscope examinations indicate that two Thompson Sub-Machine gus, - a «45 Colt*a Automatic Pistol, and another weapon using steel tall bonrings, was used in the slayings. It 1s quite apparent that your agent, Caffrey, was killed with a Ball bearing, while Lackey was shot with a Thompson gun. Reid, Grooms and Nash were shot with # Thomp- . son gun, while it ia apparent that Hermanson was shot with a buck-shet gun. My ecnclusions are based upon careful microscope examinations of the exhibite now in my keeping. Bullet holes in the two cara indicate that the gun-fire cam e from the front and rear. Bullets and cartridze cases from Floyd's gun, and from the Nebraska Bank robbery, and from the North Kansas City bank robbery, as well as . bullets fram our Detective Carpenter shooting, all failed to be identi- fied as being connected with the weapons ueed in the Plaza shootings. Test bullets fired by mo from the two .38 ealiber Coltts revolvers taken from "“Fur* Sammons, failed to be identified as being connected | with any local ahootings. Should you take any weapons connecting with this case, it is absolutely important that test bullets be fired from — the weapone by me in order that I can identify positively the compari= son elugsa as we:l as the guns. Be sure that no one cleans the guas.* eee OOS Referring to the letter from the St. Paul office dated July 7, 1935, Page 4, last paragraph, it is noted thet a number of shelle were picked up at the scene of a bank robbery at Farmington, Minnesota, which oc- curred during Mey, 1933, and that photographs of various individuals, ineluding AlvirDwerpis, bed been identified es ; having perticipated in . that bank robbery. ; A letter bas been written to the St. Paul office, requesting that original shells and bullets, if possible, be forwarded to the Kansas City office, in order that they may be analyzed by a ballistician. Mention ia made in the refersfice report fran Kansas City office Gated July 15th, thet slviekPayton ani Kenneth*Conn, both escapa from the Kansas State Penitentidry, Lansing, Fansas, who wre posaibdle suspects in thie case, engaged in @ bank robbery at Altamont, Fanoass « recently, at which time Conn was killed and Payton rounded. ee e The .45 Colt automatic Pistole, whieb were found in ‘possession of the bank robbers in question, were examined by Mr. Gill, Ballisticien, - _ above mentioned, and he finds that the guns have no connection with #8 the instant case. ats -15- eet ese ere seem dee