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Ne” a we Chicago, Illinois December 23, 1938 MEMORANDUM FOR SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE D. M. LADD RE: ST. VALENTINE DAY MASSACRE On the late afternoon of December 20, 1938, SIMON RUSSEL, 830 West llth Aveme, Gary, Indiana, furnished the following infor~ mation to the Chicago Field Office: ’ He stated that he was employed at thehPyrania Engineer~ ing & Mamfacturing Company, 1256 Wellington Averme, which was under the management of MIKE M4 KAUFMAN, as a tool maker; that he worked at this place for about a week in the month of February the year of the so called St. Valentine Day Massacre; then after being laid off about one week, he was caljed back to work the day of the massacre (St. Valentine's Day). About 9:30 or 10 A.Me on that day three men came in one automobile to the shop and talked with KAUFMAN at his desk in the office, this being a small shop, and later about thirty men came to the shop, coming in several automobiles; that some of these latter men opened up a woden box, which they had brought with then, and tock out an instrument, he seeing only a long tube, which he did not closely observe, and after taking it out covered it up with a black canvas so it looked dike a camera when this machine was set up on the floor in the middle of the shop. The first three men, who had come in, had had revolvers when they came in, and after the others had set up the instant machine, which he believed to be a machine gun, KAUFMAN gavé a revolver to a part of jthese men after they had taken drinks given to them by KAUFMAN. T4BANKE (phonetic), 8105 Vincennes Avenue, was the leader of one group of these men who had come in automobiles, and he also gave revolvers to his bunch, the two _ groups being divided about equally; that shortly thereafter four more men came in an automobile, one of whom wore a policeman's uniform. He later stated that this man, who wore the policeman's uniform, was later identified as DILLINGER. ALE LAURENITES, however, was the leader of this group of four, they also having revolvers. Thereupon one of the men from the KAUFMAN gang and another from LAURENITES gang took the machine gun,, which had been disguised as a camera, and placed it in one of the automobiles, whereupon all of the men left the shop. However, just before they left KAUFMAN asked him what this machine was, evidently in-an-sf=<—-————_— fort to see how mich he knew, and when RUSSEL replied it Peakhal BURCAB Or tnVESTIGAT GE DEC 2 1938 U. §. DePARi MENT -OF JusTige ee i Ccycy . «+d e CHICAGO, ILLINOIS i L~ BY RIT-XF ~ ele v