FBI Chicago report on Murray Humphreys, 1961: arrests, the 1933-34 income-tax case and the 1952 Senate-contempt acquittal (Vault Humphreys Parts 10-11)
The 1961 report compiles Humphreys's record: robbery indictments of 1920, a June 27, 1933 federal income-tax indictment to which he pleaded guilty in October 1934, and a July 1, 1952 indictment for refusing to answer a Senate subcommittee, on which a judge acquitted him on October 30, 1952.
- Date
- 1961
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- Chicago file 92-348
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA through the FBI Vault. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
Within the 1961 report, the FBI compiles Humphreys’s arrest record from Chicago Crime Commission files and court records. It notes robbery indictments in April and December 1920, which were stricken or vacated, and a concealed-weapon case in 1930.
It records a federal indictment of June 27, 1933 for income-tax evasion. In the FBI’s review of the U.S. District Court file (Part 11, p. 69), he pleaded guilty in October 1934, was sentenced to eighteen months and a $5,000 fine, and was received at Leavenworth.
It also records (pp. 197-198) that a federal grand jury in Washington indicted him on July 1, 1952 for refusing to answer pertinent questions before a subcommittee of the Senate special committee investigating organized crime in interstate commerce, that he pleaded not guilty on July 11, 1952 and waived a jury, and that “on October 30, 1952, HUMPHREYS was acquitted by the Judge.” The year of his appearance before the subcommittee (May 28) is illegible in the OCR. The Senate’s contempt report on him is filed as S. Rept. 82-474.
The report also reproduces 1933-34 Chicago Tribune items (p. 136); those newspaper texts are not relied on. Page 197 prints part of a street address in a case caption, so page 198 is the page shown. This archive read the page through the Vault viewer’s OCR text layer. The scans are poor; names, dates and figures can be garbled, and many names are redacted under FOIA exemptions (b6, b7C, b7D).
