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ee ETT Teer reess oe : Meee te no ” sata. af. Roe at FEBTS 1834 4S. Bepartinend of Justice VISION QF.JNVESTIGATION Baran oh deost getoets Federal Building, == of _ Kensas City, Missouri. — aa, January 29, 1934, | ee Director, oe BO , Division of Investigation, . 8 a U. S. Department of Justice, ~. Fashington, D.C. Dear Sir: RE; VERNON ¢. WILLER(DECEASEDJET AL 0 CONSPIRACY T0 DELIVER FEDERAL PRISONER Sonetime ago this office wrote to the Division to ascertain whether-the fingerprints of the corpse of Vernon ¢. Miller taken in ” Detroit had ben compared and found to be identical with the known finger- prints of that individuel, and thereafter this office was advised by the Division that the prints had been found to be identical. There have been numerous rumors afloat in this vicinity to the effect that possibly the individual whose body was recently found near Detrcit pas not that of the Vernon C, Miller wanted in connection with the Unign Station’ Massacre Case, The most recent of these rumors coming to attentiof§ waa from Special agent R. G. Reed, who has advised - me that onJanuary @¢th, while at the office of the Sheriff here, a men- ber of thejMissouri state Highway Patrol, remarked thst he was doubtful - whether Vernon C, Miller was actually murdered at Detroit, Michigan, and pointed out that he had received reports to the effect that Miller's | fingers had been burned to euch an extent thet ity was Tmpossidle to. a secure fingerprints thereof. . oo Coe . It occurred to me that in view of such rumors that. ‘this oe Division might desire to incorporate an article in the]FUGITIVES WANTED. — BY POLICE BULLETIN, indicating the fact that a positive identification had been made of the fingerprints of Miller, which definitely indicates that the man murdered was Vernon GC. Miller sought in connection with the Union Station Massacre. My idea was that the Division could probably write a short article in the nature of an interesting fingerprint matter reiative to the identification of Millerta fingerprints. } . Bass TA VSGN > ,; Acting Specte Agent in Charge. MCS-6° }OORDED & eee a eee