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SI-7085-F "I saw one of our men had been struck by a gangster and his face was bleeding. I called to the sheriff's deputies to arrest that man who had struck the blow, and he seized him, but in a moment later, I heard another blow and our second man was bleeding. He had been slugged. With the help of the sheriff's deputies, we got our men in between the cars and finally inside the auto and they drove away safely and later I walked back across the street with the deputy and with the Lieutenant who up until that time had not appeared on the scene, being still in the building. We got in the lieutenant's car and drove home."

There is submitted herewith as Exhibit No. 9, a sworn statement made before me on March 18, 1931, by Mr. Chester H. Bragg of Chicago, Illinois, relating to the raid on the Capone gambling establishment above referred to in which he assisted the deputy sheriffs on May 16, 1925. He states as follows:

Memorandum of interview held in Room 587 Federal Building, Chicaeo, Illinois, on March 18, 1931, with MR. CHESTER H. BRAGG, 3101 Harlem Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois, in the presence of Special Agent Frank J. Wilson and Marie J. Donahue, Stenographer.

MR. WILSON:

Q What is your full name?

A.Chester H. Bragg.

Q. What is your address?

A 3101 Harlem Avenue, Berwyn, Ill.

Q What is your business?

A Real estate broker.

Q Will you kindly state the circumstances and details with reference to a raid which was conducted at a gambling establishment in Cicero, Illinois, on Kentucky Derby Day,1925,at 4816 West 22nd Street?

A I was called up the day previous by Reverend H. C. Hoover, who asked me if I would report at 11 o'clock the following day at this Grove Avenue place where Morgan lived,#3545, for some investigation. I came there at that time and meet a squad car with about three states attorney sheriffs, and we discussed plans, add landed up at 4818 - 22nd Street, Cicero, just before the noon hour, probably 11:45. Hoover and one other investigator had been there an hour in this - 12 -