JFK Assassination System Date: 5/26/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John Kennedy AGENCY : FBI WSssassination Records RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10213-10238 _ ollection Aet of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note}. RECORD SERIES: HQ ase#:NU 45903 Date: wi-i6-2017 AGENCY FILE NUMBER: — 88-30913-6 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: ANDERTON, JAMES W. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : DATE: 10/22/1964 PAGES: 30 SUBJECTS : JCGR, ASSOC AND REL, INTV, IDENT RECORD, GRAND JURY DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: = 4; 10(a)1 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 04/30/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : v9.1 3 HW 45503 Docld: 32294462 Page 1
ee on O- a eo & / DL 88-6358 ATLANTA AT ATLANTA GEORGIA, (1) Will ascertain present place of confinement for FRANK CLAUDE RUMNEY, Atlanta. Federal Penitentiary Inmate #78960A, noting that in Atlanta letter to Bureau and all continental offices dated 4/20/61, RUMNEY fur- nished information concerning GROSSI and may have current information as to his whereabouts. (2) - Will set. out lead to have RUMNEY interviewed | regarding whereabouts of JOHN CESAR GROSSI. ALBANY AT KINGSTON, ONTARIO CANADA. Will recontact — subject's wile, PATRICIA BOWEN GROSS1, 36 Ellerbeck Street, for any additional information she may have developed. CHICAGO AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. (1) Will at the headquarters of the Playboy Club, Ync., check membership list both current and past for any ‘reference to subject under his true name and all aliases. (2) Will review file on . subject at the Chicago County Jail under their number 63039. ; NEW YORK _AT KINGSTON NEW YORK, Will locate and interview — Lg EUGENE SC » reportedly operator of a music store near oa Hudson, N.Y¥., and a friend of the subject, for any information he may have. . AT YONKERS, NEW YORK, Will ascertain at the. Holiday oo ve Inn located Off EXit #6, New York State Throughway, 125 Tuckahoe B Road, telephone number GR 62-3800, if there is any record ot* subject . a staying at the motel under his true name and all aliases, noting that the New York Division in interview with a friend of the subject, SALVATORE DI BELLA, aScertained that subject ‘had fur= _ nished DI BELLA telephone number PE 6-3800, Room 830, and DI BELLA stated this possibly could be for a Holiday Inn Motel, -~C= COVER PAGE HW 45303 Docld:32294462 Page 7
“fe DL 88-6358 SALLY FERGUSON, 752, Ivywood Street, Dancanville, Texas. It ‘is noted that the ‘atlanta. Division on. 4/29/81, submitted. a letter to the Bureay and all sontinental. office setting out information furnished by FRANK: ‘CLAUDE. RUMNEY who ‘at that. time’ was a PCr for the Atlanta. Division. It is| noted. it is pelieved RUMNEY is presently Eres’ ‘at “the Uv. S: i. Bederal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia..- ‘RUMNEY, on 3/20/61, nished the following. information to tae” Atlanta Division ; CLAUDE. BRUMNEY, “inmate Register. 73990-1—"f : PCI for the lanta Division, and whose identity should be protected, furnished the following information on 3/20/61. RUMNEY 3 nee asp. zelease Zzom: the Atlanta: Federal Peniten eis OSST, Register #82090uA, had prior to his release 8/10/60, sonfided in him, ~ ROMNEY, that he was going to rob a bank somewhere in the United States soon after his release. GROSSI did not state | where such bank was located or if he had selected one to rob.. _RUMNEY stated, however; that GROSSI had previously robbed a bank in Canada; that he considered him to be a psychotic bank robber and car thief; and believed that he was sincera in his statements that he was going to rob a bank. The file of the USP, Atlanta, pertaining to JOHN C, GROSSI, aka. Jack, Register #82090, was reviewed and shows this convict's true name to be JOHN CESAR GROSSI, aka Jack. Dale Williams, Charles T. Bishop, George Edgar Van Bsren, ; Roger Garland Dieckman, John C. Grosss, Jack. Cesar Grossi, } and Jack Leslie Bowen. — GROSSI was. last convicted, according to USP recor« 2/5/53, Northern District. of Texas, Dallas, and sentenced to two years for CRV- ITSP. On the same dats, in the same court’ he was sentenced to two years: to.run consecutively for CRY=-ITSP GROSSI was: originally committed to USP, Leavenyorth, Kansas’, oi 2/28/53, as Register #69642-L, to serve sentence of four year bo and. was conditionally released 12/18/55, sentence to expire: with good time allowed 3/5/56, full.term to expire 2/4/57.. GROSST violated terns of his. jotanen, ger, besbury a Docld: 32794462 Page 3°: |
| . ] Hw 45803 DoclId: 32294462 Page # AL 88-3793. sit WEL: saw (cjb) The following investigation was conducted . oo cas by SA WILLIAM R, MARKSHAM: wo _ AT KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA On July 30, 1964, Warden VICTOR RICHMOND, Kingston “ Penitentiary, made available file of former inmate. JOHN  . GROSSI, number 4053, which indicated GROSSI had been released to Immigration and Naturalization authorities: on October Ts 1959, According to file GROSSI born August 5, 1925, and © his wife was FLETA BOWEN, Box 87, Calhoun, Illinois, mother ROSE (Mrs. JOSEPH) CALI, 75 Grove, Passaic, New Jersey; brother ALBERT GROSSI, New Jersey, no city indicated; 'gister JEANNE (PAUL) ENGOLD, residing New Jersey, no city indicated, In-laws reported as OHER (HADGE) RYDER, 305 East Cason Street, Irving, Texas. File also reflected — subject's parents separated when he was two years of age — and he was placed in foster home with his brother and sister’ being placed in an orphanage. He began to run away from home at age 12 and in 1949 attempted to contact his foster _ parents in New Jersey after being re-united with his natural - mother. He was reported as unsuccessful in this attempt; however, the file indicated a letter of September 24, 1909, - from the State of New Jersey, Board of Child Welfare, JOSEPH E, ALLOWAY, Executive Director, 163 West Hanover Street, Trenton, New Jersey, indicating subject's foster mother was Mrs, ELIZABETH SMILEY and efforts were being made to locate her at the request of Mrs. HARRIET WILLIANS, Field Representative, Bo@rd of Child Welfare, . The results of this inquiry were not reported in this file. The file at the penitentiary also indicated that subject had received wor’ from his wife or mother on . o October 12, 1956, from Irving, Texas, concerning the birth - of a son. He was reported as last being employed prior to incarceration by the Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas under the name JACK BOWEN. While in prison he coecemeneens span nan _ B: 309 O93. bo, i
HW 45303 “AL 88-3793 COOPER, Kingston Police Department. Mrs. GROSSI advised she is a Canadian citizen and married the subject on | December 16, 1961, at Durant, Oklahoma, under the name : Docld: 322794462 Page 7 2 studied commercial art, bookkeeping and business administration. On July 30, 1964, subject's wife, Mrs, PATRICIA GERVAN BOWEN GROSSI, 36 Ellerbsck Strest, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, was interviewed by SA MARKHAM and Detective BRUCE of BOWEN and that a son JOHRN WILLIAM BOWEN was born . September 14, 1962 and is currently residing with her, Mrs. GROSSI advised she moved to Kingston, Ontario, on July 1, 1964, from Renfrew, Ontario, Canada and that she last saw subject in May, 1964, when she belisved he was , driving a Pontiac Grand Prix. Ske first met subject while prisoner at Kingston Penitentiary and lived in Texas : during the major portion of their short marital life, at whic! time subject was employed by Jaggars Chiles Stovall, a printing and lithograph company in Dallas. She returned to Ontaric, © Canada, in the summer of 1963 and somstime subsequent ‘theret ce) subject quit his job and visited hor at their previous residence in Renfrew. She claimed to have broken up with. subject in January, 1964, but had received a phone call from him March, 1964, from Vancouver, British Columbia, at which time he advised that "he was in possession of a red conver tibls Cadillac and was attempting to establish a concentrated orange juice business between ths United States and Mexico. She denied any contact with any other members of subject's family but claimsd had heard bis mother was remarried and currently confined in a mental hespital, location not knovn. In May of 1964, she forwarded subject an incomes tax retura check in ths sum of approximately $400 which was made payables . to both she and subject, which she endorsed and forwarded ~ in care of one CECIL CHERNIK, 32 Wasdale Crescent, Toronto, - Canada, a friend of subject. =17- TESST Rete SGT ET De A ER RETA TT