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Kansas City Massacre — Part 35

125 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 2, 1954 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 125 pages OCR'd
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+ oa ro ‘ hia release from Harrisonvillee He stated to the agenta that the _ Bottling Workas, It would have been entirely possible and a very 7 entirelye _ La, ae ms _ a T tea! Ly, See Crave fers eer Le. . vt ey : rd woot EIR es i mre ae ee immnity in return for informtion, It seems reasonable therefore to assum his information mey be more reliable than it might be under other circumstances, It might also be well to note that Sheriff Bash has promised thisa informant that in the event of any duplicity on his part he will actually be arrested and prosecuted for the abduction at Harrisonviite ‘which could carry with it a death ponaltye e , “- * he question was “asked the informant on January 3lst es to what was the “hot wire* or information that he had previously promised after the fulfilment of that which had been done, namely true facts of the matter were not exsctly as show in his previous interview, That with reference to the incident of the fist fight at the headquarters of John Lazia he had himself talked to one of the participanta of the fight immediately after it waa overe That the participant head told him that the fight occurred because of a . remark which he himself had made to the other participant regarding the greatest shooting that Kansas City has ever known, This same perty also told him that his om hands were bloody from the affair and on a number of other occasions remarka were made by that individual to the informant which indicated to the informant that reference was being mede to the Kansas City massacre and none other. _ In further connection with this the party stated to our informant that he was present with the other aseassine when they drove from the Union Station and that they went to a dottling works on MeGee near 25rd Street, he and another Itelian, where they hid for the entire day. Since the letter of January 12th was written it has been found that the bottling works referred to 1a evidently the | Glendale Beverage Company located at 2320 McGee which is the only bottling works anywhere in that vicinity. That to tling works is controlled, aa atated in the letter of Jamary 12th, by Lazia and which ia ostensibly operated by Charles Corolla. Thare is a subterranean atreet passing under the Union Station and emerging two blocks there~ rv from on Grand avenue et 22nd Street. The point from which cars oe emerge at 22nd and Grand is but a block and a half from the Glendale — ‘aimple ruse for the assassins car or those associated with him to have been driven west from the scene af the massacre to the weat side of the Union Station Plaza and then to circle through the aubterranean street under the Inion Station and emerge at the point near the Glendale Bottling Workes This probably would have escaped notice ee
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