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Seth Ee dood » * + _, . _— Papier i Comb tee Purvise made during his tops Peferred Obseurt the witn rvis certainly was no pub- pearance on the witness stand: ity seeker himself while : iwas this laconic, almost classic| a7 idescription of the shooting o:|¥#8 22 agent. He would } 4 a Floyd: : . preferred it if be could have Fa a “I observed underneath the|/"emained completely out of oo! corn crib, elevated about one the stories of the day but his Ba ; : d chalf feet on stilts. th activities made that difficult. fet (baer free another gang-|2"4 one eet on stilts, (hele was described by newsmen syle ster, Frank Nash. feet of 2 man leaving the carla, “g clam personified” and fo . Purvis ha {I observed this man started]his favorite reply to questions : ture Rich aa er eller to run. I recognized him as|was, “Sorry, Colonel, I ha O., October 21, 1934. Floy. d Charles Arthur (Pretty Boy)|no comment to make.”. Rie had escaped th. ni to be Floyd. and otherscommanded) It may have been 1 ped’ then, only to lhim to halt. He continued to{Purvis had a deeper and if Wackea Gown ext aay by a fupsetting irritation, at least . publicly that he had pro; ‘at the farm home near East) Richetti to Gas Chamber. /Mrs. Anna Sage, the “wo ‘Liverpool. Richetti was convicted ofjin red” who put the finger on o | Miller. whom Purvis de-participating in the UnionjDillinger that hot July night, scribed later as suffering from|Station massacre and was exe-|some help from the govern- “a clear case of galloping in-jcuted in the gas chamber at{ment in fighting deportation. sanity.” had been killed by his|the Missouri peniteniiary in[The government refused to do underworld companions. With|Jefferson City October 7, 1938.Janything for her and she was ‘Miller and Floyd dead, only| On July 12, 1935, Purvis[deported. sn ‘Richetti was left to stand trial.fresigned from the alle, There Who was this Purvis wh On June 13, 1935, Purvisfwas some indication t J.fgrabbed the imagination of ‘walked into the courthouse Fcpereedae ict, the chief -of]/the American public when it {here to testify against Richet-the Tederal agency, was un.[was seeking for a challenger Iti, Always frugal with words,@PPy with the individual put-|to the gun-slinging hoodlums? { 1 1 Iay CULYVES dU LET Brean a48 Wee VL OT &@ LULL lity. berween lone obi cations or his relentless activities. near Timmonsville, S. C., and ‘made by defense attorneys his was denied, * This father wanted him to be ‘He traced the capture of Ri- However. 2 New York Times, tobacco farmer like himself. [chetti story date-lined Chicago, re-}-The son had his eyes on big- : Me the 1... + porting the resignation of Pur-|'ger things. He was graduated omnerimps the longest speecti yi oid: . | with a law degree from : “The head of the bureau! University of South Cerolina here... denied rumors that|) He spent 20 months prac. he had ‘differences’ with his|ticing law as “a very junior chief, t, chief) partner” in a law firm: af tha Pe Pe ee ee af Tn PR Iinnenne CF FR Bt. .or_ ie | woe © 1] 4 sVitae, o & Uh New ear 1! It was pointed oul,| day, 1927, be boarded a frar ; however, that the publicity ae W: i phrase ‘J. Edgar Hoover an-|isibly to seek a nounces’ has bccn in % iThere were no ‘ every city except Chicago#™= lomatic¢’ ¥ 7 = “itold they ,were ‘looking Sear ime « ete ee cere dpe ae oD gt ee