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Kansas City Massacre — Part 14
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° ‘Robert Hendry; ‘ie. ‘Robert entry, i inte ‘ite, e ‘ent ry “eerk;-9 8
_ Gumings, They vere interviewed 6 on buo seperate eocanions, and ‘gua:
Ma rained statement: was secured: x rahe A
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“Ss ws .t ut "on Sunday hthing, fas iva Yess, ry ‘the’ Rest c ° Fg aah: os
* ”. Ieetion sometime erowmé 11:00. £:ie;. two wouda cone in the btore and ie:
>. + were waited on by both Mrs. Heniry and Miss Cummings, one who hat. nce =
deen identified as Mre. Bet ekwalt being about 56, S*6¥ tall, «%:;. ee
. Weighing 160 pounds, very stout, very broad shoulders, md beavy omeby 55
very dark throughout, dark hair, dork complexion, dery eyes and very :.
dark skin, looked Jewish and wore ~ yellos swoater ensexdle vith a very
large green pin - a pin about two and one-half inches in Ai ameter; that ..
_ hie woman was accompanied by a blonde who wore a tan, possibly a white: ae
“ten, and bad a blue silk” ensemble, having a cape effect reaching too:
“ot ‘per knees; that the companion was a straw bionde, had considerable p36... a .
*:takeup on and ber eyelashes were heavily masceraed, Photogragh of: tag
,.' Vivien Mathie"sas shown to these two women and they stated this wae the ».
_ dlonde womaas, They said that these wanen spent @ lot of tine in the * 5
store anf made a purchase amounting to $6.00; “thet the Jesish womn: Pee shan
made all of the purchases except one and that one was mde by the .
blonde. They eaid that the Jewish wanm paid the entire bill of $9.90 . .
i, With a $10,00 bill. Miss Boos. Qumings recalled distinctly that the .:::: $e
fait Blonde dought a pencil sefitwhich is merely a pad of paper vith ry ponetd
i, .', inetde witha leather or susde cover and the wards “aus able Ciaem, He 1
. burnt “thereon, and ‘the “set. ales gantained @’rnler, ‘an eraser. anda vary |
Sholl dictionary. She said she also fecalled that the Blonde wroteout
fra: the mame and address of thé person to “whom abe desired to send thes a
ec. package. She said that it is the practice in the store to have the 4 :
cugtomer srite out the nam and address of the person to whom itis
: be mailed and thon this information is later transcribed on a@ label on :
ft , the typewriter. She said that the original notes inthe handwriting | o:
*_,° the purchaser ere destroyed, Miss Cummings stated abe recalis the, ‘nae
. Of the person who received the package was Betty Mathis’ and ahe also: aie ge
recalls distinctly that it wont to Byainerd, Minnesota, because the poxt -
“day, Monday," when the packs ge was teken to the post office by the boy: ag
| there, he noticed it was, boing eent to: Brain, Minne so ta, and being
ris. from Minnesota he stated: that he knew shore ans was and. Anqiired :. ah
8 as to what was. 2, the package, where won the boy ace
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4 Se a vi. (att. ns
RS ete: nay’ else ‘anid that the Teeieh woman ‘Pought « a Mat et Pa as
banner. both of of which contained the words "ausable Chaea, N. Y.", and?!
_ that these tro items wore sent to sanone in South PaLlobarg, Hew Tests
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