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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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Beste te vel ora i en, ae Lee — - 4 -. a was rae Ranta : alee a 4 saat sow m ' Poles a - ft ot a fo further confirm the ‘ptory as told by Arthur Johnson ‘alles. t “wReae price, in regard to the members of thie gang, reference 16 made to ‘the report of Special agent R. L. Shivers, Jacksonville, Florida, 2/23/34, and to the report of the same agent, 2/26/34, Which reports detall extensive ‘iafoma- ” +t4on obtained from Edward Doll with eliases, Fugitive,.1I. 0. 1214, ina Bo National Motor Vehicle Theft Act case. For the information of offices which - have not received copies of the reports of agent Shivers, it wil} be noted © confidentially that Doll, who is referred to constantly as Rddie roley, ‘ad- - oo mitted thet Big Homer ‘Wilson, Eddie Bentz, Gus Stone (undoubtedly the sene as Gus Stevens referred tosbove), Big Slim, one Shorty (fictitious), and Old: - Charlie, were the participants in the robbery of the Lincoln National Bank | etd Trust Co., Lincoln, Nebraska, which occurred on September 17, 1930, in .. . which Foley took a part. Foley also stated in regard to the Raneas city mas- eacre that he had talked with Frank Hayes, 745 South state Street, . Chicago, who said that Gus Stone hed admitted that he hed been the party who handled” the machine gun 6p thet occasion. Foley described Gus Stone | es age 48,° 72! height 5:7", weight 150-160 1b., build medium, eyes dark, complexion medium, .. _.. glasses, sometines wears hook-over gold rimmed glasses; characteristica;.- Is... ordinary looking, wears high, heavy, bleck work shoes, always wears suspenders except when carrying u gun, when he wears a belt; in sumer often goes without coat; dresses in rough clothes, is | Foreten Aooking (Dutchman wi th Jewish char- ecteristics as to money). as =. Sot ean “Oa eS a we “. - Foley “{ndicated thet he ‘te extremely desirous ‘of. acaisting:. the Division in the solution of the Kansas City massacre, feeling that he ° would be benefited: by supplying , information at his command. He confessed “hs to participesion #iti sddie Bentz, who he claims wes then Living on Kingston “§treet, Chicago, Til{nois, one #Red*, who was connected with the Luer kidnap- ing (evidently *Redt yO'Malley), end sia’ Evans, in the Effingham, Yllinois | mail robbery, which decurred in October, 1933. He dented participetion in the Bremer case but said that he believed this job had been done vy one Yhitey ‘Anderson, an escaped convict Th Joliet, Tllinois, according to Foley, an . ' Bentz end the brother of JacLO»feiffer, who is well known in St. Paul. He-* . contended that these parties were the ones who robbed the Grand Haven, | Michigan Bank in the epring of 1933, at which time Earl Doyle, although Foley aid not , know bis last sDeme was wounded and Septurea a ERE oe ee te ft; — soya ~' Foley “aented iortag ¢ the Barker brothers, Eerpis, Barry anise). ‘Volney avis and othere.. Spry ees . DVRS . - pe me gs mH me * Foley ‘admitted the robhery “with” George "Beute ‘and George Kelly“: of a bank at Tupelo, Mississippi, about December 1, 1933, the robbery with the sene parties of the Blue nidge, Texes Benk in August, 1932, with the seme parti and Rddie Bentz the robbery of the Colfex, Washington Bank in about Septenber, 1932.
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