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er ae ae —w rere Was serving a sentence in the Miasourl st te ‘Penitentiary at Jefferson : City he met a fellow prisoner named Petef/Corolia whom he befriended once . when other prisoners attempted to kill Corolla. They became intimate on : associates and when, during October, 1933, informant F wes released oe ae : the Missouri State Penitentjary, Pete Corolle sent him to his brother, we 8 Soe 7 Charles{Corolla at Kaneas City, Missouri, baving sent with him a note of recommendations This was for the purpose of placing the informant in the ~ geod gracea of Charles Corolla, who is the firet lisutenant of the gang leader John LefLezia here. The informant advised that he thereby became associated with the Lazia gang and that they gave him no assignments Whatever, but contributed in rather a meager fashion such funde aa would. parely keep him in food and clothinge The informant wae told by the ~ Lazia henchmen not to engage in any illegal practices until he would be ~ given an assignment by the mob and he was promised that within a few weeks there would be a big *job® which would have in it a "cut" of several thousand dollerse However, informnt advised that he did not receive such | an assignment and for vant of another field of activity be engaged with ~~ Brashear and others in abduction of JackfWelch near Harrisonville, Missouri, - which proved financially fruitless and later they engaged in an attempt to : rob a box car at Pleasant Hill, Missouri, which resulted negatively as to | the robbery since they were surprised by an officer when in the vicinity | of a box car which they intended to robe The officer was shot and severely woundeds On January 3ist, Sheriff Bash and hia assistant, ure Kelley, drove : te Harrisonville, Missouri, and brought back with them informant Fe They notified this office while they were in their car with the prisoner as they entered Kanses City. They proceeded to the Kaneas City office immediately with the prisoner and Special agent Andersen having been familiar, priar to .. their arrival, with the former disclosures of the informant, he, together -_ with Special agent Trainor, again entered conference with the ® informants in the presence of Sheriff Bash and Deputy Sheriff Kellys ot aay get ae It was atated by the ‘Snforrant prior to the tine that he was taken to Harrisonville, as mentioned herein, that if the State officers would. carry out their promises to him, namely, that he be released from proseaue ‘tion at Harrisonville, he then had what he termed “a hot wire in regard - to the instant case which he would divulgese Incidentally it may be noted that informant F was the perpetrater of the plot to kidnap Jack Welche He admitted to the agents that he had heard while in prison that Welch had ~~ several hundred dollare buried on his premises near Farrisonyille, This fact 16 mentioned in order thet it may be clear that informant F actually OWGe lifetime libsrty or his life to the State officers who promi sed him : eoophte “