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Kansas City Massacre — Part 24

249 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Oct 23, 1933 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 249 pages OCR'd
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Room 1408 ’ Division of Inveatigatios, * | Ue B. Departuent ef Tustice, ' - @1® Federal Building, - _ lee Angeles, Seiiforate ° an ° Pl o refer ‘to our misceliene inveatigntia ; matter of 3 alias . R and sare ovcRLar alia ALE « : aL ar ‘wa ay Letter of Sep tender ‘st J mentioned the name of ial rachalter, who has been under investigation by thie office for sane tine . poet in eonnestion with the Kansas city massacre €080, 28s Sa ee Bee vel ee th uname, Riot awe resin y pes “it the Hotel ‘waldorf “astoria, this city, there roslices one Benjemin Seigel, called "Bugs" Setgel, whose Rew York City sumer is | B-06018. Seigel, who has been residing at this hotel sing lest “" **" @9 @ gunmen as tell known as he is wealthy. Ee fe an sesootate of ont. ae eatoubtedly e mouder of the Bushal ter-Lucenia mob. : a Ligier t " ‘hes cons $0 the atten tos of this ‘office shat | : ‘ Loe angeles come time in august of september of this year, The oxact * dete ie not ascertainable. He sane back vin plane, and in the plane was . ene Fred Kaplan, an attarney at lav, who resides at the Naldorf Astoria. Hotel, and who fe an ettorney for Owen Y. Madden, bis gang, and his - i+. @etivitles. So far as this office een learn, it was Rere coincidence. "that Keplen end seigel returned ‘to New York Oity on the sane plane. oe Keaplen sot only represents Owney Madden but represents the famed): ‘':" “Purple Gang", of Detroit, Michigan, ené it was know in Hew York ‘gate .” pest gamer thet Kaplan wee out on the West Coast popresent ing sane < 7 eenee tere of oone sort, mat farther artioulere are sang; © 2 cae POE y 4 . Yuere also peoldes oy the ‘poten: Neléort gatorla an ind ivideal,, ” who uses the name of J. Bonds. He has resided there for the past few 5) _ months. It ie believed that he has some eonnestion with Seigel, although - this hae not been setablished. fhe nost that fe knom ebout nm is by. . ene of inference to the effect that he isa eonfidence mams SOE te On July £4th, ot 5:23 Aa, ponds fron bie room in the s Saldort . Asteria, telephone 4 Drezel 7000 at Los angeles. He take one minute at. e coat of §6.280. : . . ;
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