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me toe * C SF ee ee a a ee en iN ae aie a Arey eal ¢ ¢ Page &£ = Nebraska, where two of hie brothers resided. He later moved to ' Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he obtained a position as fireman on the Illinois Central Railroad running from Council Bluffe to Fort Dodge, Iowa. Shortly after hia emloyment as a fireman Bailey was married at Milan, Missouri, at the agé of about £1 years, having married the daughter of Mr. ani Mrs. Frank Martin; namely, Mattie J. Martine The marriage ceremony took place at the home of the parents of the bride near Green City, Missouri. Bailey worked for about six years for the Illinois Central Railroad, and was recommended for the position of engineer, but preferred to remain as a fireman, For a short tine he resided et Fort Dodge, Iowa. At that time his brother-in-law, Mr. Bankus, was living at Silver City, Iowa. Bailey and Mr. Bankus established a Delivery and Automobile business at Silver City, This business wee financed by Bailey, who was not, however, active in same. During thie time Bailey was engaged in running liquor and became associated with a gang of Italian bootleggers at Omaha, Nebraskae He furnished beer and liquor to the German fermers in the vicinity of Counoil] Bluffe, Towa, Bailey is eaié by Mr. Bankus to have had two children, ’ Von Bailey, who ie new about 25 years of age and ia residing with bis motber on 4 farm near Richmond, Illinois. The other child, named by Mr. Bankus, was Laryey Je Bailey, Jr.-, who was killed at the age of 5 years. However, 1t will be noted from the report of Speciel Agent W. F. Trainor, dated at Kansas City, Missouri, 6«14-33, that there are three other children supposedly those of Harvey Je Bailey, named Mildred F,,Raleton Goodloe and William Wesley. This information was secured from a review of the file of Francia L. ' Keating, Thomas Holden, Frank Nash, Escaped Federal Prisoners, “Kansas City File 76-174. Apparently the question of parentage of these ebildren could be verified by investigation at Richmond, Illinois, where kattie J. Bailey now supposedly resides on a farm with her family end brother, Hadley FP. Martin, and others. It was said by Mr. Bankus that the child, Harvey J. Bailey, Jr., waa killed in Chicago, Illinois, by Subject Bailey himself, accidentally, when Subject ran over the child while backing his automobile from a driveway at bie residence, and that Sudject Bailey was grief atricken over the incident and quite often relates the same. Mr. Benkus was one of the sureties on a bond for Bailey when the latter was. arrested at Karyville, Kissouri, around 1919, Bailey ie said to have defaulted on thie bond and the incident merked the end of the friendship between Bailey and Bankus. a em eee wee