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anes are *ggént Carver interviewed ir. i: “Ay Worrell, an Agent a. of oa eo es "1 the hativey Express Agency, Ino., Charlotte, North Caroline, who *.5.7°.- | so oo= 4 advised thet W. A, Hughes 1a an “Agent of the Agency: at Columbia, 200° 3 ee "South Carolina}. that he rides ‘on en annual pass of the Seaboard; Do -- Mir Line, as well as other Pailwaya, ‘and thet 4%. “is his duty ‘to ~ oN. "4° confiscate pistole'under proper circumstances, Mr. Worrsil eda #8 + vised agent Carver that he had written to Mr, Hughes at Columbia, *"- South Carolina, and had been advised by telepbone that Mt. Hughes ‘ did confiscate the pistol at Gibson, North Carolina, as shown, and that the pistol was an old one, and so fer as he knew, hed no eng. ~ . dend ‘BMetory, as alleged An. the, nowepeper iter, ~ 08 a rl ety : rs athe writer interviewed iw. " re ‘Hughes, Reilway Eipress * Bont. . Agency, Inc., ‘Columbia, Bouth Ceroline,.. who advised that the newspaper =. ~ :.' article ehove referred to reported events that were fignentes of SOR ~ ™ m - One's imagination, - ’ Be eteted thet in his capacity as Special Agent ~ _of the Railwey Express Agenoy, Inc., he has recently deen trying to he _eheck on same thefts, particularly ef guns, over the raliway ‘lines in North Carolina and South Carolina; : thet he bed a gnn shipped - Doge from Richmond, Virginie, to Gibson, North Carélina, and that He “~ ~"" | allowed the gun to remain in the express office at Gibson, North Carolina, for two weeks as a part of hia plan to trap whoerer was ".. 7" " “gugity of stealing this typé of mérchandise, He stated that on’ aT February 13, 1934, he was travelling on the saithbound train - oe . passiLtg through Gibem, Korth Carolina, and got off thet "grain, — vo. , Yo _. for ea. few minutes end picked up the peckage involved in this gases os * - - He stated that he "said nothing to the Railway Agent at Gibson, Nor th wee ° " Carolina, which might support the stetemmts made in the Rewspe er: article; that the only thing he had sald with reference to the gun. _ was that it *hed a history", and that he had made no partiouler .. ~~ | reference to the ZXansas City Massacre or to any pertiouler erinjnel | event. . z nike. Ss ol . a. ; REFERRED UPON COMPLETION 20 OFFICE oF “ORIGIN if a