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charm COPIES DESTROYED 40 Au 31 1464 Tea ite POR ORR A Tie ee Say Mp WET op Peat TAM re pm ad ma racy rig See te tat edna tener A. 6 Buuren of Sabet Department of Justice . . . oan mn ene’ “Ay, 1806 First National Bank Bullding — Bl ag” Charlotte, N.C. - wo aS .. a <2 7 & wee Fenuery 29, 2058 ait mom LF Director a ee Te Jee ee Division of Investigation _ a U. S&S, Department of Justice RECORDED Washington, D. C. » UAN: 1934 AM, Ay 30 1954 Dear Sir: RE: VERNON 0.4 MILLER with eliases (necedés )- et al; Conspiracy to Deliver Federal Prisoner + eRTCE On January 22, 1934, Mr. Cowley of the Drvte : this office telephonically that a telegram had been received from 0 a man who signed his name as ; Gregory" at Durham, North Carolina, | to the effect that he knew tha whereabouts of Pretty Boy Floyd. . On January 23, 1954, Special agent W. S. McKinley, who was at that time acti ng in my absence, telegraphed the Division setting out a summary of the results of his interview with Gregory at. Durhen, North Cerolina. Agent McKinley is now sick and confined ~ to a hospital in Charlotte, and the information contained herein- after ia based upon ny interview with him of yesterday. . he lives in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginie. He cleims to be the son of R. C. Gregory, a Special Officer of the Norfolk-Southern Reilway, and stated that he is enxious to assist in essarching for - fea. arthur Floyd, Fugitive, Subject of Tdenti fication Order = — 1194, - Gregory gave hie name as W. G cae" ‘and stated thet Agent WeKinley stated that b during hie interview with : Gregory, at which time Special Agent W. G. Elliott of this office Was also present, Gregory seid and did many things which caused | the Agents to believe conclusively that Gregory ia undoubtedly - mentally unbalanced. For example, during the interview, which . occurred in Gregory's room in the Washington Duke Hotel at Durham, Gregory withdrew fran his overcoat pocket a No. 6 billiard ball, and, holding the billiard ball high above his head, remarked to the Agonts: "See thie; you can’t go wrong on me”, Gregory also produced a gaudy belt, to which was attached an elaborate buckle which epparently had been taken from a women'a coat, ani made some insignificant remarks concerning the importance of the © buckle attached to the belt as though it hed sone valve asa No