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wo ad poe oa - i - In connection with Foley's etatenent regarding ‘the ‘gopbery | * " * @f the bank st Lincoln, Nebraska, he mentions the aliases of Big Homer / ‘Bilson es Big Jim, Cherlie Potatoes, Charlie Stone and Big Moose. When |. «. 2° agent interviewed Fran: Hayes in Chicago, Tilinois, in November, 1933, at - " %. the time of the raid on his apartment, he informed agent that Big Homer was _ @ former Cicero bartender, and that he had seen him about three months before... . He described Big Homer ae being taller than agent, who is about 6'4* tall with ~ shoes and weighs about 260 lb. ordinarily dressed. one Babe Jones, a Chicago - bootleeger who was with the Klutas kidneping gang, and who turned state's ovis © dence, in order to assist in convicting a number of this geng for ea series of - kidnapings in Chicago in 1931 and 1932, when interviewed, admitted having seen * Big Homer, and described him as e« man of about 6'2* tell. end weighing 260 or - - 270 1b. It will be noted thet there is a wide variation in the descriptions of ~~ sy Bice Homer. It is significent to note trat arthur Johnson alias "Red* Price ‘ evatec that Big Ton, really Harvey Bailey, was about 62" or 5" tall and Weighed ° fA. @bocut 225 Jb., that 4s, thet Le and Big Homer were about the same size. It is believed that Harvey Bailey was in fact §*114° tall, and that hie weight varied — considerably, although at one time he weighed about 225 to 230 lb. It would . “ _ therefore see= that the description as supplied by Johnson is probably more neerly correct than the otners. Yoth tayes end Johnson ere extremely short men, and in consequence would very likely be inclined to over-judge the size of a tell man. ee eee : . : - a ; The investigation conducted on the information supplied ty , Spe cial agent in Charge Werner Hanni in regard to the location of ‘Big Homer - wes as follows; : * . 3 : t i i . = is fe se Y . a - ‘ : 3% . i Pa . 7 : 7. a < — Flet and jettrey avenue, Chicago, is the Bryn Mawr station on aa the South Chicezo branch of the Illinois Central suburban train. gabout this section is the beginning of an extensive business street which runs a number _ of blocks East through this portion of South Chicago, where there are numerous furnished end unfurnished apartment houses. on the Southeast corner of thie _. intersection there is a large lot, and the firet building on 7lst Street ie + the South Shore branch of the Cadillac Motor Car Co., the address of which... +.-- ja 2015 Bast Vlet street, telephone Plaza 6600. Since it was reported that. .° Big Homer wes driving @ Cadillec car, ani since about 80% or 90% of the twelve and sixteen cylinder Cadillac cars are serviced by Cadities agencies, and since about 50% or 60% of the Cadillac cars of the eight cylinder model are serviced by such agencies, it was 6 thought advisable to start an Anvostigation at. thie at ween 7 Mr. Rex ‘ploss, the Service manacer at this company, eaid that , he hed been at that post only during January, 1934, heving formerly been con- nected with the Service Devertieit at the main office. He questioned a number of exployees, however, all of whom were unable to recall a men answering the