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os ot ee ee _. - . wee i —7 we ee ae ry . 7 2 ™ URES ER UTS" "card of 0. W. Smith,” "Ses, “an eatery at y orth. la “La Selle: ‘Street, “chicago. wes also discovered in this pocketbook, and it bore on the’ ae back the address, 2450 North Clark street, Ted Clooney, Jail Cafe, Diversey” a 10160. “Mr. Denning, Executive Secretary, chicago Rar ASsociétion, wae inter- - viewed, and he stated that the Association's, ‘records showed thet wr. 6. Bi “Smith, Jr. #as of good character, end that.while hé'was not :personaliy ec-- “quainted with this man, he was acquainted with several of the men with whom *° Siith is now sharing e suite of offices at 11 South La Salle Street, cbaving - _ moved in about May, 1933, to his present location from ] Nath Za Selle Street, “and that 1t wee believed that Smith could be reliably epproached in tits matter. wr. smith, ‘in consequence, wes taterviewed, “but he could not - renenber ever heving seen any of the suspects, whose pictures Were shown to | _him. He had never heard of Ted Cloonan, although. he has lived for a long tine io the vicinity of Follerton Parkray, which ig only « fer blocks from the. ‘g Jail cafe. Mr. Smith said that he had‘practiced very little crimtnal lew, f -: although he had represented e J. W. Smith alias Cab Saith. in 1930 or 1¢3},°” who had been sentenced to Leavenworth Penitentiary from St: Louis, Missouri, ' _ On @ Government bond charge. Smith represented Cap Suith on his removal to- - +-G$t.-Loulg--—Ja addition,-he said-thet he-had elso represented -a number: of-s- other criminals from time to time and had made it a practice to give these . verious men a number of his cards ‘to distribute in: “Jail. in the event that ” good ceses should come into the jail end no lawyers were in attendance. He pomoese pasa he hed not beén in Kenses City for a number of “years, “elthough he had ~ ’ “had relatives at that point, and thet he had distributed quite ea number of pple cerds down through Kansas City, Missouri. .ur. Smith offerad.to de of”. ‘ “anv assistarice he could; but seid bé wes uneble to ascertain. how his card” 7 might. have been held by. one of. the persons, whose Piotupes were shown to him. a we ay ayaa RH ES aa Se! “ee il ee carn, Sar In regard to the Jail Cafe, it will be noted that thie saloon, or tavern, es they are called in Chicego, fs located at 2450 North Clark. Street, which is on the Southeast corner of a short street running West off of Clark Street. This cafe or galoon has bootha fixed like jail cells, whicd ; " are about six in number. There is also ea fair sized bar. In the rear there is @ emall kitchen and a lavatory. This is a very emall place. agent, from ~: previous investigation in the neighborhood, remembera that this place formerly - a operated 484 speakeasy but now is.a tavern handling Anheuser Busch -beer.: : at mhile in this saloon agent nade a telephone cell. and discovered thet the ® ‘tele-) '” phone in the booth is Diversey 10160, which is, the number found on ‘the above «. ” mentioned cerd. The bartender of thts. saloon is a small colored man... the - oo . business “seened to be rather slow. a leter telephone call to this number brought the response from this bartender that Ted Cloonan was expected in... eh —=t.---!"§ 9 few hours, and asked for any message. Further investigation as to the" a identity of Cloonan has not been made but such investigation will be conducted and will protebly show thet thie men is the owner of this tavern.