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Se diet aed Director. ~8- 7 31/34 Ed Fitzgereld and Ton Jensen to the house at 204 Vernon Avenue on June 19, 1933, eround 12:00 midnight, and the detectives reported to him th:t no one wes found et the house; thet detectives Fitz- gerald end Jensen returned vith ebout one-helf dozen brorn, empty, ~*~ Sucrt size Fngeeser beer bottles from the vrenises, which they turned over to John J. Tierney, in cherge of the Fingerprint Divi- sion of the £t. Pcul Police Department. Chief Devhill on the occesion of this intervier eppesred sonerhet reluctant to hzve Agents intervier the detectives who rorked on the ccse, end it is in-ics ted in the memorandum submitted by ~ Specizl] é£zent Flood, eprecri inz in the report of Special Agent Treinor, | feted Kens ts City, July 2, 1922, th-t Speciel Agent Hell would leter interview tne detectives in e discreet manner. . fgent Flood interviered Mr. Tierney, who edvised thet the etove mentioned beer bottles were given to him for exrminrtion for letent prints; that he suspected the individuels r-siding et the Vernon tLvenue ecdress es possibly being connected rith the Hemu Kid- neping Case, end thet it hed occurred to him thct Frank Nesh was possibly one of the kidnepers. ‘Mr. TMerney furnished Agent Flood “ with tro photostetic copies of three letent fingerprints found on one of the beer bottles rhich he exenined. Mr. Tierney edavised thet the letent fingerprint encircled by an ink merking wes the right thumb print of Frenk Nesh. &s to the other tro letent prints, Mr. Tierney furnished no infornetion. “Mr. Tierney requested Agent Flood to forward the letent right thumb print of Bech to the Division, together with tro copies of the other two prints found on the beer bottle. In this connection the records of the &t. Paul Police Depertment reflect thet Villian Hem wes kidneped e+ St, Peul on June 15, 1923; £100,000 ransom wes pcid on June 19, 1933, and forty-eight hours efter the peyment emp wes released. - It will be noted froz the above thet teking into concidera- tion the ednissions mede by Mrs, Nesh to Speciel Agent in Cherge Brratley to the effect thet the occupants et <04 Vernon fvenue, St. Peul, Minnesote, were the Berker brothers and Alvin Kerpis, it rould eppear improbeble, but not impossible, for the seme individuals to ¥