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OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
to
STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH OF ORLEANS
December 19, 1966
heavy
D administered patters Neubrost when
STATEMENT OF:
JOSEPH S. NEWBROUGH, JR.
at
RESIDING AT:
932 Louisiana Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana
0
FBI of
RE:
DAVID FERRIE
sparrato
S A T E E N I
was Newsoung
As an employee, associate, and investigator with Guy
welly for 7
Buni
Banister, I met David Ferrie who at the time was charged with
(IMP!)
sodomy or perhaps some other homosexual charge. Ferrie was in
year
Banister's office daily for several months. As a client, he
1929?
engaged Banister to gather evidence in his defense for these
charges in Orleans Parish and in Jefferson. He became friendly
Day
abort dut
with J. S. Martin, Sr. whom I had formerly worked with as a
private investigator. Ferrie had al mannerisms of a person with
a psycholdgical maladjustment. Physically the most strigking
Acaction
D
thing about the man was that he had lost al of the hair on his
Banitie a
office
head including his eyebrows. In order to cover up this fact, he
D
wore theatrical makeup including crepe hair on his head and eye-
And
to
to
brows. He stated on numerous occasions that his hair was lost
by his experimentation with radioactive material. I have heard
two other explanations. One, that he lost his hair in a dynamite
explosion while prospecting for gold in Latin America. Two, that
he had his hair removed purposely in order to get fired from
Eastern Airlines and then to sue Eastern Airlines for firing bim.
Ferrie began as a clerk in the law office of G. Wray
Gill with his own desk, telephone, etc. He did legal research
for Gill and claimed to do investigative work. He frequented
all Courts in the New Orleans area and I have heard that on one
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