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tua, “Chrysler egency in South ¢hicago. Reynolds, who had dealt with thig man, a oe + . - paw a Ame ee, ie en ra . . he : : - 6 - = 2 : a . oy . ’ . ’ . . ’ a! oot ena eo 2s 4 ta tg * * . . 4 car and later discovered that there was a car for sale in the ‘hande of a- itated Le understood thet murphy discovered this car by looking at new °° > _dhryeiers eid seeing the Cadillac on the floor for sale. in any event, ‘Bturphy — purchased this car, turning in his old Cadillac and $1,000.00 in cash... fhis : -:: Cadillac was formerly owned by a gangster whose name Reynolds could not remember. This car, however, was @ classic blue Cadillac seden with a Fleetwood body and. Was known #5 Model 355-B. Considerable search was made in order to discover the motor number, which did not appear on a number of the repair tickets for thie. ear, but it was finally discovered that the motor number was 22801855. This new «| car was brought to the F.0.R. Service, Ync. about the middle of august, 1933, *~— where extensive repair work was done on it. Jn addition, Murphy had a radio | installed. one of the peculiar things about. _ bin was that he sucgested that his redio be equipped to pick up low wave bends.’ He explained his desire for such @ redio by statins that he intended to co to Germany end wanted to have a radio which he could use in Germany. Reynolds suspected that Murphy desired to pick ap police radio messages, however, and nede no elterations be the Philco radio Which was installed. On August 16, 1933, the cer wes returned to urphy, and invoice No. 1357 shows thet tie charges were $122.60. Tre F,O.R, Service, Inc. keep very poor books and it could not be ascertained just how this hed been paid, ~ but it was believed that Murphy had given a check for at least @ portion of the —- work. It was thought thet he might have paid down $50.00 in advance and to. have paid the balance by theck. Reynolda atated that the F.0.R. service, Ime, «*« bdenked with the First National Bank of Englewood. Murphy told these people — ~, that he had formerly been a real estate broker in Chicago, Illinois, and brought - @ reali estate broker to the garage with him. Murphy seemed to be familiar with - real estate bonds and bonds of all kinda. He indicated that he wes eames sort of a politician in g~rizona, and eleo indicated that he had a ranch in Arizona. It was remembered that he hed children with him. This man was described as... being about 62" tall, weight about 225 lb., build lerge but not stout, with © «© broad shoulders, age about 40 to 45, complexion mediwn, eyes unknom, hair ose mediumj no particular peculiarities noticed except that he did not appear Irie as his nene would - indicate, pat raier appeared v0. te a Grendinevians eed ™ x 2 oF . “a through Mr. prew, salesnen tor the ‘padiliac moter Car’Co., agent. earned that the Cadillac cer in question originally Was eold to Prank Clementi, who operates. the Roma Restaurant in South Chicago, and whose name has been y= = linked with that of the Capone syndicate for many yeare. Mr. Drew's infomation was that Murphy had come to the Cedillec agency to have a small repair jos done and had later returned on Sunday, when the agency was closed, and had then gone to the F.0.R. Service, Inc. in order to have his cer repaired. Mr. Drew believed thet jturphy bad heard of this Cadillac cer for sale through the F,0.R. service, Jnc. and kad purchesed it from the Chrysler dealer near the Rome Restaurant.