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aah, | 62-4949 ce Lobae Lawrence Albert Townsend, prioner No.C-S48 at the aforesaid penitentiary, was interviewed by agent, at which time he was closely questioned concerning his knowledge of Galatas and his present whereebouts. He advised that he had never used the heme of W. G.BAllen; th:t be was serving his present sentence under bis true name, which is Lawrence Albert Townsend. He said he is 54 years of age and was born at Chestertown, Maryland; that he went to a male grammar school, Ho.19, at Baltimore, Md. and subsequently attended and gradueted from the City College at Baltimore. He said thet although he was arrested eas a con man on three previous . - occasions in the United Stetes, nemely at New York City, Philadelphia, and Syracuse, he was never convicted before; that the four years’ sentence imposed on him at Quebec, Canade was hie first conviction which conviction he asserted was a “bun rap." Townsend steedfastly denied mowing or ever mesting Galetas in his life and aside from reading in the newspapers about him had never heard of him before. He asserted that he -hed never in hia life been in Hot Springs, ark. or of having been arrested in Beaumont, Tazas, as mentioned in the letter of reference, He said he bad spent most of his time in the Fest occasionally visiting St. Louis, Mo., stopping there st the Foodward Hotel; that he left New York City for Canada in the middle part of June, 1933 and was arrested by the Canadian police in July, 1933 in quebec, Canada, which resulted in his conviction on January ®, 1934 on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. He added that while in New York City be resided at the erial Hotel, Send Street and Broadway, under the neme of Herbert E.gClark,. As auggested in the letter of refererce, the neme of Chief of Police Baker of Port Arthur, Texas, was discreetly mentioned to Townsend, to which he etated that he does not know him and had never heard of him and reiterated that. he hed never ‘ in his life been in the State of Texas.