Papers signed by famous '30s FBI man found in Ohio [View all]
Source: AP-Excite
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Record-keepers examining long-forgotten documents in a courthouse have found some unremarkable depositions with a noteworthy signature: Melvin Purvis Jr., the FBI man famous for tracking down John Dillinger and other gangsters in the 1930s.
Workers found the documents in the Summit County courthouse attic, the Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/1qCxGPt) reported. The depositions, signed in 1927, involved a lawsuit over potatoes between an Akron company and one in South Carolina, where Purvis practiced law before joining the FBI.
FBI historian John Fox said it's an interesting discovery because the agency typically doesn't have many records on agents from that era prior to their FBI work.
"He's certainly one of those interesting characters in our past," Fox said.
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In this Oct. 30, 2014 photo, Teresa Corall, director of Records Retention for Summit County, left, and Karen Kearns, records clerk, look over a deposition from 1927 notarized by famous Melvin H. Purvis Jr. in the records retention office in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Purvis was an FBI man famous for tracking down John Dillinger and other gangsters in the 1930s. (AP Photo/Akron Beacon Journal, Karen Schiely) MANDATORY CREDIT
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