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Kansas City Massacre — Part 39

158 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 15, 1953 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 157 pages OCR'd
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i, a 1 oe] ae Pm] - Bariews): .- married, .and that he could probably be found with his family on what was calles “ 945 ‘south ‘tet Street, as’ the contact men for this” gang. ON dived.” ; " Weight 165 1b., rugged build, dark hair end eyes, derk complexion,’ looks like _ complexion, light brow hair, light brown eee.” epee ah Oe: e fy nares aye ee * aeee “ aacaae a. + He ‘aleo ened prank ayes, eho operates a ‘sheep. ‘hotel ‘at. ye “considerable Fy, investigation has been made in regard to this. yrank Hayes, who formerly an lived at 2216 Prairie avenue, but who now resides at 2000 Indiana’ avenue. 2) Frenk Hayes did Live with his wife and his wife's mother, a very, 014 woman’. who is believed to have passed eway recently. These people have’ an eight- “Poor: apartment, end reports in the Kanmo case prepared by agent. indicate the result: of a watch on this apartment and this hotel, and ea raid conducted on thie apart | ment by agent on the night that verne Miller escaped errest in Novenber, 1985, in chicago, Illinois. 2 0 oe. +s, qe ee ara : Par t . at ’ nats . fhe story of sped" rice ‘hes dean carefully checked ana the . 7 information which he ‘supplie@ in uhicago, illinois has been found to be sub- stantially correct. Not only hae his story been found to be correct, pit it has been confirmed in pert by varfous statements of George end Kath celly,'-. who are how serving life sentences for their part in the yrechel Kidnaping. Kathryn Kelly perticularly mentions Big Homer. she indicated that Homer was — the Talend" at Burnhem, Illinois, 4s shown in the report of Special agent Vel cv. Zinmer, Salt ‘fake City, Uteh, 2/21/34, in the case entitled "[nkhowi Subjects; Edward ¢.~ Bremer - Victim - Kidnaping", arthur Johnson was again interviewed, at which time he naned Gus Stevens as the man who had handled the machinegun in the ‘Kansas City massacre. In his description ‘of Big Homer in this second report, _ however, he states thet Homer had light Dlue eyeé ani ‘light complexion, which — “4s at variance with the information previously supplied by Johnson, but the details in regard to height and weight remain the sate. Johnaon supplied the additional information that Big Homer wee married and thet hia wife and tro children were living on Prairie avenue near P Blat gtreet in n Chicago, Thinotes ey a m regera ¢ to Gus y stevens, “Johnson ‘Stared ‘additional ‘informetioz " indiceting thet thie man hed lived in the armstrong Apartments on! bout 47th — “Street immediately South of jrest Madison, where his wife, named - Ginger also He described Gus Stévens sa 42 or ‘43 years of age, Height ‘about, 511020, @ Jew, has e nose like a Jew's. Ho described Ginger as about 22 or 23 years - of age, height about 5'7", ie quite tell, weight about, 120 to 125 lb., medium EM we hokey oer. . Johnson gave information not contained in the first report of pecial Azent Gere, but which had been set forth later from the Salt Leke City office, to the effect that George Ziegler in November, 1931, had lived in an epartment house on the Northwest corner of Medison and Scoville in Chicago. He egain described Ziegler. It will be noticed, hotiever, that Madison and Scoville are in reality in Oak Park, Illinois, and the information eotained at that address will be set forth later in this report under the ezx- tensive investigation made by agent in that locality.
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