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Kansas City Massacre — Part 19
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had com to Sen Francisao lest January, and had been here ever since,
Fesiding at three different places,-and last at .634 ‘Clay ten St.¢ thas...
Laweon had been working at time of arrest with a igather wrker on Sutter:
. Street, a trade he bed learned while in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary .
on sentence for violatiaa “of the National Motor. Yehisle Theft #6t. Bt
_Riobarde made the: statetent thet he me convinced this ;far.from the” e 2
nvestigationg. of his men, shat Laven pea sotually, agen 2 in Hen] Freaciseo eo
since January e we 2 ar
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In company with Lt. Richards, igeat interviewed Lawson at the
San Francisco City Prison. Lawsoh reiterated previous statements to _
officers that he had come to and been in San Frencieco since January of .
this year; that bie wife Ind deen with him; tht he bad served 42 months in
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary fr vielation of the Nationel Motor .. -
- Vehicle Theft Act, beginning his sentence in 1027 and being released in =
. 1930, timt while a prisoner thsre had know Frank Sash, who was e~.. |
‘trusty, but had not bean particulanly friendly with him; thet he hed been’ -
Peleased juet a month prior to. Nash's escapé in 1950; that he knew Harvey °
Bailey but slightly, and had not seen him Hr several years, as either ene
or the other of them was usually serving time; that be had been married to
his present wife at Joplin, Missouri, last Fall, after a two weeks' court-
ship; that be knew Herbert Parmer of Joplin several years ago, when Farner
Was engaged in thieving activities, but that be bed lately beard during the
last year or two, that Farmer was a Fetired “business man"; that he had
not sem Farmer in Joplin at the time of his mrriage, es he had been out -
of tha city} that he 41d not know Farmer's wife; that: the last time he had
" “geen Famer to talk te fim hed beqn,in 1910; that he he? mver heard of,
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fo and 414 not Ehow Yexnon C, Miller of Moore, ‘a ttiohara | SDick* Qaletess 3%
ts Rionards “ae ecmpant zt fagant to ‘he Bureau of seen fiction. a
of the San Prancisco Police Department, where Officer Dan O'Neill advised
that the fingerprints of Lawson ind been forwarded air mail on this date,
Sept, 15, 1933, to the Division of Investigatia, Identification Section,
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. 7
From persmal observation, ‘and the recorde of the San Franciseo —
Police Departotnte the Tollowing soscription . of Lawson was Roted: --
} ~* 4 rr "Jenee as Bweon UL
tee Be ie a ee & -?. Police Dept sNo.S0060. | ann
“satrece: “al “ 4 Claytan’St., Ban ‘Francisco, *s
ES -oaliterntal. ae
Height: ™ “ge sje oR
- Weight: 157 Ibe.
Complexion; Fair
Hair: Light browa.
Byes: fiazel green
' Peeth: Fair
Rativity: Miasouri
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