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Kansas City Massacre — Part 34

153 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 26, 1922 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 153 pages OCR'd
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a 3. Depertinent of Justice _ at Suite L, Federal Building . Kansas City, Missourl © tk February 5, 1934 eS bie peal TE 1934 Director ; Do, Tivision of Investigation Ue S. Department of Justice EOORDED Washington, D. C. &. “Dear Sirs FER 9 1934 Pursuent to telephonic instructions from Mr. He Ee Clege &f ‘the Division on January 31, 1954, Special agent H. E. Andersen, who returwed to Kansas City, Missouri, on that date, was immediately pleceé in charge of the investigation of the case captioned VERNON cf? MILLER, Deceased, . ". et al, Conspiracy to Deliver Federal Prisoners Agent Andersen will Loa supervise the investigation of thia case under the direction of the Special agent in Charge of thie offices . (Sie Since the Agents, who were engaged in thia investigation as a special assignment, have left Kansas City, the case file has been . maintained and the investigation suporvised by Special Agent W. Fe Trainor under the direction of the Special agent in Charge of this” . effices Due to the amount of work in connection with this cade it hase . deon impossible for Agent Trainor to keep up to date the¥cerd‘index -~ < _@oneerning nemes and information in the case. As I advised Mr. Clegg during our telephonic conversation on February 1, 1934, it ia believed =. that it will take an employes from four to seven weeks to bring this. index system on the file up to date. Such an index appears necessery as the file ia quite voluninous and without the aid of such an index it is practically impossible for anyone to expeditiously locate particular information in the file. As John G. Weltor, night typist, is nowa permanent employee of the Division I thought it advisable to ‘assign him the task of P bringing thie index up to Gates : Mr. | Welter is a capable etenccrapher, as well. as typist, and: during the time he ie at the office, from 5:30 PeMe to midnight, he is . engaged practically continuously in typing reports. In view of Mr. . Welter's assignment to index abe mbove mentioned case file, as suggested above, the typing work Whi SK She has been doing will now, of course, be thrown upon the remainder of, j phe. stenographie force and for that reason I -\| requested autha ity to employ d temporary typist for a period of thirty. : days me authority has, been ag in Division telegram, dated February l, Py “a a: xo ue “ah
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