Show ACE U. U S. S AGENT PAYS MYSTERY VISIT TO S. S L L. Melvin Purvis Nemesis of Gunmen Reported Here Hereon Hereon Hereon on Business Melvin H. H Purvis special agent for forthe forthe the he division of investigation department depart depart- ment mont of justice Monday was in m Salt Lake City Cily it was learned Tuesday Local department of ol justice agents denied the governments government's a ace e criminal criminal crim crim- inal hunter had been here But authoritative authoritative authoritative au au- au- au sources confirmed his visit Purvis who was credited with ending end- end ing ng the career of John Dillinger in a of ot blood in an alley in Chicago Chi cago and the life liCe of Charles Pretty Boy Floyd Ozark gunman who fell before federal bullets in a Michigan weed patch came to Salt Lake City I on oUi official ial business Special significance was attached to his mysterious appearance in Salt Lake City because federal department department depart depart- ment of justice agents here hero recently were investigating ownership of a machine gun found in the Truckee river rivet near Reno Nev It was reported then that the hunt for Alvin Karpis now public enemy No 1 I had extended to Utah The po possibility that Karpis may have been implicated d in an attempted robbery of ot a Denver Rio Grande Western train Irain in Salt Lake City Saturday may have had a bearing on Agent Purvis' Purvis westward journey tt 5 S 'S 4 S. S I II I Mel Mclvin II JI Purvis According to reports the Chicago department of justice chief chic left Salt Lake City Monday I night ht His destination des tin tion was not announced |