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Mrs. Phillips: you stand a good chance of getting
"whupped" in the coming election, we sure
hope so.
F.E.

cc: Mr. Ben Barkin,
4643 N. Wildwood Ave.,
Milwaukee, Wis.

Ald. Vel Phillips,
Common Council,
City Hall,
Milwaukee, Wis.

1866 North 12th Street,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

February 16, 1960

cc: Veteran's Administrator,
Veteran's Administration,
Washington .D.C.

Executive Director,
Goodwill Industries,
2102 W. Pierce St. .Milwaukee. Wis.

cc: John G. Richling, Jr.,
Disabled American Veterans
Veterans Administration,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

-Copy-

Dear Mrs. Griggs:

Telling the truth about anything such as the subjects I
have been writing about, can, in this miserable town, get one into trouble.
I found that out when the cops had tried using 'mental' tricks on me after
I had continued to complain about the rotten and ridiculous report that had
been made by Negro detective Dewey Russ on the Goodwill store incident,
which had involved both me and Mrs. Evans but he completely omitted thin
fact, and incorporated only my name, in a highly discrediting manner, in his
stupid, stumbling and bumbling report wherein he ignored the true facts and
used his own personal ingredients. His report was false, malicious and mis-
leading. He had neglected to mention the fact that Mrs. Evans with whom the
trouble, in the first place, had started was a witness as well as a participant
that she, too, took part in the incident and had told him exactly what I my-
self had told Dewey Russ. In his report, Russ had asserted that the incident
did not happen the way I said it had happened and that I was "only trying
to make trouble." Very well. Then what about Mrs. Evans didn't the incident
happen the way she told Russ it had happened and was Mrs. Evans, too, "only
trying to make trouble?" I'd like to see him wiggle out of that. I'd like
to see his brother officers who had been making personal calls on me and
making cutting remarks about my sanity explain the fact that Mrs. Evans'
name as a witness as well as a "partaker" had not appeared in the asinine
report. They had tried to bluff, bully, browbeat and intimidate me with the
"mental monkeyshines." They evidently had considers themselves real cute
and clever. To make a long story short Mrs. Evans name also belonged in
the report. The information she gave Russ should have been included in it.
You, of course, know this as well as I do. In stating falsely that the in-
cident did not happen the way I said it had happened Russ evidently had used
this to minimize the injury to my neck by one of his people. My attacker,
as you already know, had hit me with all his might, on the back of the neck
and knocked me to the floor at the Goodwill store. Mrs. Evans as well as a
colored female clerk had seen the whole thing from the beginning to end. The
clerk, however, lied to the cops about it, and what's more her lies were so
patent that even a child could see through them. However, lieutenant, Wehlen
of the police department told me that Dewey Russ in his false and foolish
report had merely expressed his "opinion." Since when did the opinion of a
detective constitute evidence?