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t t uy £0, 7 Pmty 4 ee : Department of Justios, | Dry, OF pen -_ Washington,DC. . tiny, Gentlemen, You may,or may not,be interested in the followin; facts and rumora of a certain individual 1 know of. 7 He lives in grand Kapids,Kioh. He is married to ae a woman whose first husband is said to have been Elain by al"purple"ganeter. His fear of the law,aleo,his wife's, seems to take him out of the detective clasa. He and his wife makes long trips and always travels by night,frequent-. ly on Sundays,;to Indianapolis, vetroit leveland and new Yo: When he returns he haa plenty money. His wife sports,on occasions,several diamonds. On one return he threw 4 party that cost money. Another,he paid a tax bill of 4 couple hundred dollars or so,on a reiatives property. , Heceaty he took muoh notice,according to witness,of report of ‘the Lindberg baby kidmap trial on in sew Jersey,whereon some- thing was stated,or intimated,that a former furple gangste and bootlegger was being sought by authoritiea. Three time he virtually commanded his wife to "read that", pointing out the pisoe. they asked for this newspaper. fhat even- ing they made another "mystery" trip. the time he returns and threw a little party was a few days after the brooklynx wank robbery of some x¥485,000.00. this took place while he was on one of his trips from wrand xapids. Of course, there is but little,and very little,chame that he was mixed up in it,nevertheless the coincident of his abgzence with the commission of the orime,and the mystery which peoms to surround him and his movements had to be noted. I recall that he was said to heve been in sew Youk vity at the time of the bank robbery. He is said to have seve: friends on the Grand Hapids police force. For thie reason I have not disclosed any of the herein to the force. In fact,] have said nothing to anyone oonneoted in any way to the force,or to anyone else. It has been my secret and eonfidence in parties who IJ know to be relisbie. I oon- vinced the latter the matter should be brought to your at- tention and the party was willing provided he was not dis- closed to anyone but yourselves,haying a natural fear of reprisals if discovered by friends of this man,should he . i turn out to be an egg-. ~ = 4 oe