Papers signed by famous '30s FBI man found in Ohio

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1. Fascinating! Purvis provided great PR for the FBI. So much so that he began to make Hoover jealous

After fatally shooting Pretty Boy Floyd and receiving extensive, intoxicating publicity for his roles in the deaths of both John Dillinger and Floyd, Melvin Purvis capitalized on his growing celebrity and publicly vowed to hunt down Nelson, but was pulled from the case by a jealous J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI. Then Hoover set about the task of rewriting the FBI’s account of both the Dillinger and Floyd shootings, emphasizing the importance of the FBI in general, rather than focusing in on Purvis. (Young and Young, The Great Depression in America: a cultural encyclopedia, Volume 1, 163)

And here's his epilogue:

Melvin Purvis’s growing fame as the “G-man” who killed John Dillinger made J. Edgar Hoover intensely jealous. The Director did everything he could to make Purvis’s time at the Bureau increasingly uncomfortable. Shortly before the year anniversary of Dillinger’s death (Dillinger was killed in July 1934), Purvis resigned from the Bureau, denying that he had differences with Hoover and insisting instead that his reasons for departure were personal. When Purvis attempted to open his own detective agency, Hoover went out of his way to ensure that the country’s best known G-man didn’t get any cooperation from law enforcement. During World War II, Purvis joined the rival OSS, which ultimately became the CIA. In 1960, after learning that he had inoperable cancer, Purvis committed suicide, shooting himself with the pistol his fellow agents had given him at his retirement party.(Gentry, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, 175-6.)