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Kansas City Massacre — Part 14

184 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Aug 14, 1933 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 184 pages OCR'd
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re he eee am ite ae ee te a rae eee _ Bepartment of Justice 1420 Enquirer Building Cincinnati, Ohio EV shy - 62-785 My KE bad Director, My, 1S7 gS United States Bureeu of Investigation, Cs p 'g Op - Wesbington, D. Co ° oF Richerd Taliman Gelateas, with elieses-FUGITIVE Re: Vernon CPkiller, with alieses-FUGITIVE, I. O. #1195, et al OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE (Endeavor to Deliver Federal Prisoner Frank Nash) Dear 8ir: Special Agent F. E. Hurley advises me in memorandum, as followse: "Detective Cecil Ezell, Auto Theft Buresu, Louieville, Kqntucky, Police . Department, informed me today that e Mra. Thomas (Pearl)/Shipman, a next , door neighbor, rushed into the Ezell home lete yesterday afternoon and re- ‘ported that oe men hed attempted to gein entrance and demanded food and lodging. lire. Shipman was very much excited and deatbly pele. Detective Ezell investigated es best he could. It developed thet Thomas Shipman, the lady's husbend, went to the door in order to inquire as to who the men Wes and why he had stopped at the Shipman home. The man in mind thereupon left the prenises and ren down 10th Street. He disappeared and nothing has been seen of him since. Detective Ezell further stated . thet Mre. Shipman geve a description of the man she had reported. The description answered so closely to that of ED MmVIS, Subject in. the above ee captioned metter, that he secured @ complete set of the photographs of each of the Subjects in the above metter. Mrs. Shipman inatently atated that the one of Ed Devise appeared to be thet of the men she had reported. In this connection, she described the man believed to be thet of Davie, as follows: About 30-35 years About §* 10° Derk brown hair; - Derk brown eyes ere | High forehead lL. 2E S15 -4/E | | Medium build Peculierly sharp eyes x, CORDED AUG 161933 moda | COPIES DESTROYED . *. } 40 AUG 20 1964 ed cae DIPES aT | SO
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