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Kansas City Massacre — Part 13
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Med FL. at the natn ch ty Beading Manufacturing Company, @57 Ros eke: ae
St. Paul, Minnesota, agent interviewed the owmers, SAM WEINER and 6AM LOVICE, «:
: -|« They made a search of their records and steted that the Battrese was not $B! ‘£.
-* gew mattress but had been an old mattress that had been recovered end’. Pee, Ls a
. sterilized for the Sohroeder Upholstering Company, 515 Rice Street.. ‘Tuquirtes” : Lh
at thet place developed that ‘they have 2 record of Gteposing of that. mattress.” 7
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With reference to the mattress hich bore the latel, “agts ‘Peal box |
Spring & Mattress Company”, it ms ascertained at that concern that on June a
6, 1935, DALE CURTISS, employes, over the telephone received an order frme -
wonan giving the name MRS. McLAREN, 204 Vernon Avenue, 3t, Paul, for a mattress
of certain dimensions with the request that same be delivered on the follow --«,
‘ing morning, CHARLES CURTISS delivered the aattress to 204 Vernon Avenue. . *,
DALE CURTISS stated the womn spoke with @ southern accent but could recall - ae
nothing else of value. CHARLES CURTISS advised he delivered the anttreas to”
204 Vernon Avenue and on arriving there, carried the mttress into the house —
up the incline from the street to the front door, rang the bell, and ms. ae -
admitted by a woman whom he described ae being about SO years of age, height. a
ebout 5 feet 2 inches, slender build, reddiah blonde hair, who spoke with o
_ geuthern accent. She was dressed in a house dress. CURTISS carried the.
..Wattreas upstairs and recalls that the wman Fequested that he place the new”
_ mattress on top of the old mattress on the ded. Be states ‘that he ai ecoureged © =
this idse and removed the old. mettress on the ded, . pleging | the now one on she... to
pprings. 7 Ae rss fe “. at or nits, ae , * . yt i oe are 7 _ a a
fe Re , Photographs of the’ persons pheviously meritioned herein were shows: e
- to CHARLES CURTISS. He wee unable to stete shether MRS, BERNARD PHILLIPS mas.
the individual who answered the door but was of the opinion that the photo-
_ ereph exhibited to him we not a god likeness. He recelis that in the vias,
a *- goom, aa he entered the house, there was a man sitting on the ‘Qavenport. and *
ico” while he did not take @ good lack at him, he thought that he might be able to"
“¢-" . " pecognize him. He described him as being about SO years of age, about 5 fect * :
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6 inches, medium builé, brom colored hair, After examining the photographs
" shom to hin by agent, he stated thet ALVIN KARPIS resembled in scae respects | fo
the individual he sew in the living room, He stated he Was paid in gash for. “e
the mattress by the vomas. That. Je. te only. frensection “heb hed A wi th ‘she rae
ocoupante of BO Vernon Avenue. ae Saal Roe i
oni aa Te the seport ‘of ‘Specie ‘Agent ¥. ,. "qreinor gated 75-38 at Kansas:
beer} . o1 Ley, commencing on page SO ise the memorandum sutmitted by Special Agent J. L.
poo Flood, xegerding the investigation condusted in St. Paul dy him and this agent,
Pege/ cémmencing with paragraph 2, sets out the results of an interview had by
Special Agent R. O. Coulter with J, GLEN HARRISON, dseletant Editor of the
Dispatch-Pioneer Press. It is pointed out that paragraph 2 on pege 350 refers
to the original informtion secured by the newspaper which resulted in the reid
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