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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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any om. feed hee ." Canisteo te a very anall. town +, TENS sin. = tg, Western: ‘onion ‘ottice™ as.-stich ond” me Beages So. v6. ‘alopathed 24 ‘telegrap * “ere -phoned"in to the Nestern Union office at Hornell, five niles, ‘atotentne% 2 uae Western Union. ae Company . at Horneld wae ‘contacted but: ‘Bo. “Anfo3 Be eS Se ome ‘Now ‘ious Y lephoks. Company serves Caniateo and Hort; a ‘nell, New York; ‘Re. ¢. ‘Leet, ‘Manager at Hornell, was ‘interviewed and ‘gtated” -* ' that Lee.H. Cady had telephone number 107R1 in his residence ‘at Canieted,: "and that Cady and Babcock had no office telephone. Wr, Leet stated that ‘4, there was.no record to show that any Western Union messages had been ‘charged. "to the telephone of Cady at Canisteo; neithor, was “there a Fecdrd of any Lori a distance, telephone call from the Cady residence except “to. enell t pwns: ¥; meee ee ae on “January, a “1934,” ‘lee’ Re: Cady of the ‘firm of Cady and paboock, « was interviewed at Leroy; -New York.°-He-etateé that -he is ans HSa attorney and is associated with Roscoe W. Babcock in a collection agency ot iat Leroy; thet prior to coming to Leroy he was in Canisteo, New York, about’. un... HMO years or Bo, and prior to that was in Detroit, Michigan, where he wae i E . oes gonnéseted with the Kimball Piano Company; that he has been married nine: ; yeara to Elsie McFadden, but would not divulge where. “she se from, but by: -" Andirection indicated she originally ms from. Caneda, although he did not ' designate the city or town. “He stated that Dick Galatas fe his_ ‘brother'sin« -.. law and that Gelatas ta married to Elizabeth "Betty®: ‘McFadden; that Retty” -:" wags married prior to the time she married Dick Galatas; but 614 not tame: “' her first husband. ‘He stated that Mra. Elizabeth ‘MeFedden ie his mother=\* in-lew; that she te blind, and 1s now making her home with him and his wife ~ at Leroy, New York; that she has made’ her home with them for years, and wap: : wieiting Betty and ‘Dick Galatas in ‘Hot Springs last sumer, 1933, end -came ‘phe’ purchased a ticket to chicago, Dilinots,’ “and he pelieves that. trom: “Chicago she went to California, Long Béach,: where, phe resides” tna. ‘homs.2 a ‘owned by, Dick Galatas; that he. ‘has not seen “Dick Galatas ‘for three. ‘or four mis, YOQHB,, and the last tine was ip Detroit, Michigan,’ Cady professed: to Aknov : 3 Js that. Dick Galatas. was in some kind of W racket, “supposedly the sonfidencs , gameg Dut ‘intimated that he aid not Know that hé was involved ‘4n the 2.3 <°"massacre in Kansas City; that. he has not heard from Dick or Batty. "pase. %, oar ‘June 1933 and that when itre. McFadden and the mother of Dick Galatas appeared *-. at Canisteo, he was of the opinion that something was wrong, but did not know . what; that he had not heard Mra. McFadden or the mother of Dick Galata.” discuss anything that had occurred at Hot Springs, dut he sensed something had gone awry by the manner in which they came to Canisteo- He stated that \ he ie certain that none of the McFaddens know the whereabouts of Betty and ' Dick as several members of his wife's family had written to him and to his wife inquiring es to whether they know where Betty and Dick are now located.
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