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Edward P. Jones

A Kefauver Committee witness of December 1950, then living in Mexico City, who testified that he shared in the profits of the Maine-Idaho Club policy wheel in Chicago, agreed that he had been convicted of an income-tax violation on its income, and described being kidnapped in Chicago.

Aliases
Ed Jones, Edward Jones
Source
Kefauver Committee, Part 5: Illinois, printed hearings (Internet Archive)
Rights
The hearings are a work of the United States Congress printed by the Government Printing Office, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The page is limited to what the hearing record states.

On the record

  • 1950-12-19 — Testimony (Part 5, pp. 1163-1175): gave his name as "Edward P. Jones," said "I reside in Mexico City," and, asked whether he was a partner in the Maine-Idaho Club policy wheel, answered "I should say I participate in the profits of it."
  • 1950-12-19 — Same testimony: agreed with counsel that before going to Mexico he was "convicted of an income-tax violation" in connection with income from the policy wheel. No judgment has been opened.
  • 1950-12-19 — Same testimony: said he was taken by armed men "near Forty-third and South Parkway" while visiting Chicago and held blindfolded "almost a week." Theodore Roe, the same evening, dated the kidnapping to 1946 and said George Jones paid $100,000.
  • 1950-12-19 — Exhibit 60 (Part 5, p. 1407) lists Edward Jones among the partners of both Jones Bros. and the Idaho and Maine Club.

No birth or death date, family or role is set. The aliases are the forms the hearing uses (“Ed Jones” in Roe’s testimony, “Edward Jones” in the exhibits). His brothers George and McKissick (“Mack”) Jones and his mother Harriet Jones are named in the same testimony and exhibits, but no record filed here says more about them than a name and a partnership; Exhibit 60’s note “Mack Jones (deceased)” is the only statement of a death. A Dallas police officer’s notes, read to the committee the same evening, attribute a different ransom figure to “the Jones boys”; that is hearsay (Butler).

Records

itemKefauver Committee, Chicago: testimony of Edward P. Jones (evening of 19 December 1950)Edward P. Jones, living in Mexico City, told the committee he shared in the profits of the Maine-Idaho Club policy wheel, agreed that he had been convicted of an income-tax violation on income from the wheel, and described being kidnapped near Forty-third Street and South Parkway and held blindfolded for almost a week.itemKefauver Committee, Chicago: Theodore Roe's second testimony (evening of 19 December 1950)Recalled in December, Roe named his partners in the Maine-Idaho-Ohio policy wheel, said the earlier owners were the Jones brothers Edward, McKissick and George, and described the kidnapping of Edward Jones, which he dated to 1946, and a ransom of $100,000 paid by George Jones.itemKefauver Committee, Chicago: testimony of Theodore Roe (18 October 1950)Theodore Roe told the committee in Chicago that his business was "Operating a policy wheel," that he had been a partner for about ten years with the Jones brothers, then living in Mexico, and that he had started working for them about twenty-two or twenty-three years earlier.itemKefauver Committee, Part 5, Exhibits 60 to 62: the Jones brothers' and Idaho-Maine Club's earnings and the Chicago policy-wheel chartAppendix exhibits printed at pages 1407 to 1409 of Part 5: a staff table of the gross and net earnings of the Jones Bros. and the Idaho and Maine Club from 1939 to June 1950, taken from records Theodore Roe furnished; a further table; and the staff chart of Chicago policy wheels, 1945 to 1950.itemKefauver Committee, Chicago: testimony of Lt. George Butler of the Dallas police (evening of 19 December 1950)A Dallas detective lieutenant read the committee his notes of 1946 conversations with a man who claimed to represent a syndicate. Among the man's claims was that "the Jones boys," policy operators in Chicago, had paid $200,000 for "the snatch." The line is third-hand hearsay.