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This FBI file concerns Lester Joseph Gillis, known as Baby Face Nelson, and related leads arising from bank-robbery investigations. The released pages include 1936 correspondence between FBI offices about interviewing Edward Wilson Bentz, also called Ted Bentz, regarding the 1933 Peoples Savings Bank robbery in Grand Haven, Michigan. A 1944 memorandum reviews Bentz's potential testimony in the Clyde Hamilton or Nimerick trial and notes questions about whether he could identify a robbery participant. The file also contains trial-transcript pages describing witness photo identifications and an armed bank holdup involving several bandits.

FBI file number: 91-57-12 | Documents span: 1936-1944 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Lester Joseph Gillis, Edward Wilson Bentz, Ted Bentz, Clyde Hamilton, Nimerick, Eddie Bentz, R. C. West
Subjects: Baby Face Nelson, bank robbery, Grand Haven, witness identification, FBI correspondence, trial testimony