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THIS CASE OHIOINATBO AT

INVESTB&TIOW,

C KEEDLE TRADE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION et al ANTITRUST,

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Instant matter on trial, SDNT, February 20/19/40 to April

13, 1940^ and on ipril 19th iwelTe derenaanxs received \

) i $ s^htences^totallijig 8 yeaE5_3^jnonths o£ ithich'' 9 B^nths /

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r ^ suspended and fines totalling #7»000«00t Disposition

sHeeti~sufcniitted» Records of Magistrate's Courts and Courts

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Report of Special1,.

N. I., January 25, 1940.

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DETAILS:

The trial of the case of UNITED STATES vs. NEEDLE

TRADE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION et al was begun on February 20, 1940

before Judge WILLIAK BONDY in the Southern District of New York

and was concluded on April 13, 1940. A verdict of _guiltr was

returned against the following listed defendants:- ...

— BENJAimfGOLD,'^ .

IRVING POTASH"

JACK SCHNEIDER"

UORFIS LAUBER"

JOSEPH

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JULIUS VsEIL -

SAlfJEL -RJRT -

HERlit.K PAUL'

AI "f.^ISS •"*

OSCAR LILEAF ""

JULIUS SCFAARTZ, '
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Defendant LOUIS EANDELEAIJ1J plead gaffty on February 2O,*-

1940, end sentence was deferred unti l afte r the tria l of the co--;..'

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1£AX KOCHINSKI ^

MORRIS HpCOHEN"

AKGELQ-'-SLANCX)

The indictment iras ^veredon February 121,

defendants' . / C.

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Louis

(CHARLES) SALOUNIS (correct spelling SALCU.NIAS) and

Or. April 19, 19A0 sentences vere imposed in this case by

r? Eondy as follows:

Defendant Sentence Fine

BEHJAKIN GOLD

IF.VIKG POTASH

SAlvUEL R'RT "

JACK SCHNEIDER

JOSEPH T5IK0GRADSEI

HEFi/AK PAUL

JULIUS SCH7,'ARTZ

KOEFJS LAUBER

OSCAR laiEAF

JULIUS V.EIL

AL'TREISS -

LOUIS KAKDELEAUlt ••

1 year

1 year

1 yea r

1 yea r "'••-•• '

6 months

6 months

6 months

6 months

3 months

9 months

(suspended)

3 months^

1 year \

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£2000.00-

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$2,000.00

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During the course of the tria l the indictment -was dismissed

as t o the following liste d defendants:-

KEEDLE TRADE WORKERS IKDUSTElfl. UKION.

ICESDLS TtME v.'OFJERS IKTSJSTEIAL UNION, FUR DEPARTMENT.

GUS HAUFl'JLK.

JCHE COS (XCJIS).

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CHAP1F.S KAPOII.

SOL VOLIIK.
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:%-;'V\ /During thev entire period .«f-,this report this, matter

-^ was either In trial or in active preparation for trial/ 'an<Tthe

investigations reported herein were undertaken upon the request of

the Departmental Attorneys engaged in the prosecution, that is,

Special Assistants to the Attorney General BERKELEY W. HENDERSON and

FREDERICK J. VHELAN and Special Attorney EKANUEL S. CAHN,"who were

currently advised of developments during the course of investigation.

The records of the Magistrate's Court and the Courts

of Special Sessions and General Sessions as to the defendants here-

'in and other, members of the defendant union were examined as requested by &r. Vfhelan. This request was predicated upon testimony before

the Grand Jury in this matter and subsequent interviews -with

witnesses by lir. \7helan relative to numerous acts of violence "which

were alleged to have been committed in behalf of the union.

The exa^iinrtion of such

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reoofds was also for the'purpose of establishing ifcethw? "the Union

had supplied the bail bonds in these cases. The examination of the

records of the various courts covered the following listed casesi-

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Defendant

tORlIS LAUBER

AUGUETO PALLONE eta l

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JACK SCHNEIDER etal .

JACK SCHNEIDER etal •

JULTJS SCHWARTZ etal .

OSC/.r. MTLFJS etal

LOUIS FODOLSKY etal

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FRAXX 7TEISS eta l

JULIUS SCnriVARTZ:etal

HARhY IpX-ej/al—

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DA7IL- PISHMN

DAVID FISHMAN

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OLD ROSSI

VIKG POTASH eta l

ijOUIS-tANDELBAUM eta l

SOL .VOLLUJ etal- \

ANGELC BLANCO ! )

ANGELO. BLANCO eta l .,•'

ANGELO BIANCO eta l

ANGELO, BLANCO eta l

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THEODORS££AVANTGES

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CHARLEakZORNBERQ

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yORRIS UUBER

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Complete anjd detailed information as «hbwn by the '•"*.

' •arious court records of"the above c6ses'was furnlBhed'irom tiaeJ

to time during the period of this report to the Departmental

Attorneys conducting the prosecution, and is also contained in

Agent's notes which are being retained in the New York fidd office,

as a part of the file in the instant matter. Such information

also includes similar particulars relative to the other persons

who were arrested with those named above!

Agent's examination of the records of the Second District

Magistrate's Court disclosed no record of this case and upon exarnin- "

ation of the records of the Eighth District Magistrate's Court, Eronx

it was ascertained that on July 7, 1933 the case was referred to

Bronx County Court and Blanco was released under $2500 bail, which

bail was subsequently reduced to $1,000.00 and the case was referred

by the Bronx County Court to the Court of Special Sessions, Bronx

County. The records of the latter court disclosed that a real estate

bond in this case was furnished by LOUIS A>flANAN, 165 West End

Avenue, New York City, and that on August 1} 1933 when ELanco failed to

appear for trial bond was forfeited and a bench warrant was issued for

his arrest under ifoich Blanco was found to be still a fugitive.

The records further disclosed that the forfeiture could not be

executed because the property covered by the bond had previously been

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Upon the suggestion of UR. HENDERSON, agent informe

^j^^ j office of the Pis trie t^Attorney, Eronx

county, pBIIBiBIHHHHHHBHH^

Sessions, Bronx County, tha^tria l in the Southern

District of New York in the instant matter, Blanco was subsequently
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BROTEERS, 350 Seveath ltenue« Bev Toric Clty| egainst-J^CK

i, Pallone testified l a thie connection in Qeaeral Sesslotta"

Court that he n o paid to sake this utteck ijr 4ACX SCWTRIiaJHt v l

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"The. fPfe further JLndicated? 1bhat4his^Hs also Wli^wSagW

the Immigration Service, relatir e to his states in this country.

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With reference to MORRIS IUJBER, Ifcdictaent #193102, V

General Sessions Court, lew Tork City, December 29, 1932, charging

him with Manslaughter, First Degree, for the stabbing of THEODORE

DAVANTOES, and resulting in the latter's death, was dismissed

by Judge J. Q. WALLACE, on August 21, 1935, on wrtion of HARRY SACHER,

205 Vest 34th Street, ihe District Attorney <1AGKER) not opposing. ;•

In thiB connection, the Assistant'District Attorney ALEXUJDE? filed •

a/Recommendation dated September 12, 19^4, setting ou^^hat "the

principal witness upon whom the plea~relied was CHRIyTTORIAS

who testified in the Homicide Court that he saw the defendant

DAVAXTGES, the deceased, and then.rjm. He alao *tated that he saw

OFFICES ERAVSFELD apprehend the defendant. While he did not testify

in that Court thet he actually saw the knife he described the motion

of the defendant toward the deceased as a "quick Jabn.

_-_-_ . Further, that ahon this witness appeared ~Wfore

arancT Jury on December ,1, 1932, in answer to questions «f Deputy

yUsistant^Di strict Attorney PRICE he replied that lie di^o t s5ft

etabbed THEODORE DAVAgflBS «nd #hat-W^tttdTiot see HOffiBB lA

uorning antiJPWrter J»e, TIORI^g, was arrested^y«ad t&ffc

did not see -*»1- r " airei from the scene and he repeated that be"*€id

not see tke^fifflTftab THEODORE DAVANTGESJ that-when Tiorias was taxed

with his answers in J&e ficadcide Court, his_^gj^natlooi j»as thl& he^

was trying to get "satisfaction { ^ thos*^ai$lQffB^ttet vtablMJa ay~

friends" j-what as a result of hiS't^^ft ^

TIORIAS was indfc^d for Parjurji-."" \.

Further, that the testimony of EDWARD J. BRANSFIELD,

the arresting officer, was to the effect that he was apross the

street from the building in front e f which the etebbing took place;

that he sav, the defendant running, apprehended bin and asked him

what he was running for and that the defendant answered "to get away

from the crowd"; that he then took the defendant to the scene of the

crime end that DAVANTQES raised his artt and pointed at the defendant and

said, "That is the man" and that the defendant then said, "I did

not touch him"; that the officer also testified that he did not

find any iveapon in the defendant's possession nor did he find a

knife ne=r the deceased.
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•\c••''. v: -.••_ The records 'furthest reflect that it; about 8/i.li,:'

August 12, 1932, about one-hundred fur workers, all-members of

the Greek Par Workers Union, local #70, American Federation of

Labor, including DAVANTGSS and TORIS, were escorted by two

policemen, one in front and one in back, to take them to work as

they expected trouble from the Left Wing. They walked up Seventh

Avenue to about 26th Street where they met a crowd of about one

hundred or one hundred and fifty Left Wing workers and that a

fight started when one of the latter threw a milk bottle into

the crowd of Greek Fur Workers. ..-- ^ ..--• - '

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• The indictment against CHRIS TORIS for Perjury in

this connection was Indictment #194377, Court of General Sessions,

Ner; Tork City, under which Yoris v.as released on bail of $5,000.00.

On April 16, 1934 upon the recommendation of the District Attorney

(Deputy District Attorney FEIKEERG) this bail vas discharged.
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The records of the V&gistrate CourU and Courts of Special -

Sessions and Genersl Sessions disclosed that in practically al l of the •

eb--ve mentioned cases the bail bonds were furnished by either the COHCORD

CAX'ALIY A1JD SJEETT COJ^P/J.T for which the a^ent was AIFJC J, RT35K or the

CITY SJRF.TT AKD IKDT^ITY CORPOHATIOK for vhieh tho agents

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practically each Inetance tht bond was secured by tht KSKDL?- TRAB8

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-J£KARKUZAS, Immediately upon the completion of his direct and

examination, requested permission of the CouH to feake a statement

. and then stated that al l of hie testimony was engineered by 1fl*'*~'-'~-

and Mr. IHEUS told him to "try bis «too*t"\to implicate

JOID as rn^ch as ihe could "fit, him Into w e picture.i*

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,*as thereupon'coHnitted to the cnatody'of the United "States Marshal

on March 14, 1940, and upon being arraigned t>efore Judge lU^mBUJM • ;'

in the Southern District of New Tork, on the complain p . t of ^

charging Mm -with Perjury, TAPPOJZkS plead not guilty and TOS released

in bail of $10,000.00. Local/70 of the GEEEK.FUR WORKERS UNION iras

irdemntor on the bail bond. pEarpougas' testiaony was based on -hie- —*

statement of January 27, 19^3_to_ Mr. JHnAKj£_ilie latterls-olfioe

in the presence of Soulounais, of which a stenographic transcr^j

was made by Mr. fhelan's secretary, IdpSS 3l30S*IIlJaiBj-also on

statement to Mr* Hhelan on March 13, 1940 dn-^he presence of the

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Defense vdtness JCSl-Fri S^SB'ON testified that in

the summer end fall of 1932 he vas a member of the firm o*-SD-0;I ^

fur manufacturers, 322 Seventh Avenue, *.ev; York City

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JOSEPH \vIIv'OGHADSlCr.

HEH.'AN PAUL.

JULIUS J. SG.WARTZ.

KORPIS LJOJEER.

OSCAH KILEAF.

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UNDEVELOPED LEADS

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WiU follOTr and report th e dispositio n of defendants LOUIS N

HTMAN, and JOHN DOE (Charles) SOULOUNAIS/18 whom th e indictment i n

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to BENJAinj^BALK, SAWDEL^TETTEIKAN'and tha^JEEKS. FJB.DRESSING COMPANY

in re U.S. Vs. Protective "Fur Dressers Corporation, et al c

*• Will report the outcome of the appeal filed on behalf of

CARI^SKAPIEO, KATHA|i^?P.ISK and SATJELyS'ITH in the Conspiracy to

Harbor case.

* On the final disposition of ths appeal in the Harboring

case will obtain photographic copies of pictures showing the eradicated -rcritins on eight pages of the payroll book of the Raleigh

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Jfay 13, 1940 ,-A-:

Director

Federal Bureau of Lnvestigation

Washington, D.C.

Re:

Dear Sir:

Karen

Reference

i s aade t o lette r from the Bureau dated

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It is noted that the Bureau letter requests that the

information submitted by the.Hew York Field Division ehould be

based upon the results of interrjerrs had by Bureau agents iri1

For the purpose of clarity the facts pertinent to each

individual will be related separately herein: "

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E0C1AL *JRFHI Of IKVEST»ATni

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ABRAKAK P.ELES:

RELKS is last 1'nown to h:ve

Avenue, Brooklyn, and he is narriedt

esiced at 121 VanSicklen

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racket ente

kncnrm that RELES was involved

prises in Brooklyn and that he -was an associate

of

It is interesting to note that RELI-5, who is presently

incarcerated by the State Authorities in Brooklyn, furnished information to them about the many murders committed by him (RELES) and

his associates and that most of his income -was derived from these

murders. The New York office has no record of his filing an income tax return.

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Regarding the suggestion in reference letter from the

Bureau to review the testimony furnished by persons who vrere sub

poenaed before the Federal "Harboring" Grand Jury at Kew York,

the attention of_thg_Bureau is directed to report of Special

^HHflHBI a t Ke?r York C

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In view of the aforesaid opinions expressed by' the U.S.

Attorney, further contact -with him concerning this matter does

not seen advisable and -will be -withheld unless further instructions

from the Bureau are received.

Concerning the general request for all information available on other individuals than-those mentioned above, it is respectfully brought to the attention of the 3ureau in this case

that several hundred people were intervievred who night possibly

be of some interest to the Treasury Department. To obtain 'complete

information concerning all these it would take a trenendous amount

cf tine, since the file numbers 107 sections in this office.

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.In vie.7 of these facts'it is requested that the Bureau

consider the possibilities of having a ..representative of the Treasury

Department confer with an a~ent in this'office familiar with the

general background of the case, in an effort to narrov; dcTr.ithe

inquiry and arrive aj. a minimi:.: cf research here. \ '

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Pursuant to reference letter from the Bureau, there is1'

beinj transinitted here-.-d.th a copy of the decision of the Circuit

Coiirt of Appeals, Second Circuit, reversing the tria l court's finding that A3^r£R .h'Longey'U27i'JILUiAu* v,

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a.s_ in contempt of court.

Very truly yours,

P. E. F0X30RTK

Special Agent in Charge

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rroa th« United SUt*« Dlttriot Cowrt for,

Xh% Southtm Dletrlot of M»v Xr t

The dtf«nd«nt appeal• frota « J«Agwent holding

»f #oat»acpt «f *ourt for r»ftt«ln«ff «Q th«

of ©oa«tittttioBal prlTll«ff«f to aatvvr certain qtteatloat

propeiuid*<i b/ tha Gr&fid JUTJ, aad froa a aentenac of

laprlaenaaat for il l »ontht tharafor. Krtartod*

B a f o r • t

6VA8, AUGUSTUS I . RAKD and CLARK,

Circuit Judgea.

AltTHUIt GAKFILLD KAYS, Attorney for drfrndantapppllftnt; Arthur Oarfl«ld Kay« and

Shllenefcy, Countel.

JoiiK T. CAHIU., Unlt«d JitRtee Attorney, for United

of AirrrlCA; Jarowr Doylw, T^obprt L.

an«! til l ins F. ^oun^r, Aeelstftnt United

Attoraeya, Count*!.
AUGUSTUS « . BAUD, Circuit

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Xa DM a*ath of A«g«tt# IWi, tat Atfefc&aat-apptllaat

apptartd btfort a grand Jury la tat Sautfetra Dittriot #f

K«v Xork purtuant %• a •mfcpataa vhian required felft io taatlfjr *%• all aad «r«rjthlnf vhlak h» alRbt luwv la r««aT4

to «A allegtd Tiolatlea of f#«Uea 16 «f Titlt S8 of th»

tht OalUd Bt*tt« «p t« 4«fr*ud tb« Onltad Etitci la aajr

maantr ar for aaj purpett.* Tht proottdiai; vat A graafl

Jurj lnr#itlff»tloc «ndtr tbt tltlt of Dnltgfl stwttg T.

John Do*. Aft«r btl&^ tvora and giTlnc toe« ttftlaoaj

the dtft&dtnt vat iitktA the follovlm; question* vhieh ht

rtfated to aarvtr en the groaadt herelaafttr ttatodt >

•«i« Kr. Zvill»&nf vho vtre your tmtinttt

atsoolttee la 1926? A. I rtfutt to aawtr oa

the ground it any t«od to lnorininatt at.

•Q. Who te n four atn<>elatet la 19Z97 k,

X refute to antver on the (round it wmf Wad to

lnerialnate at.

. vbo vtre your butlaett attoolattt In

1OSOT A. I rtfute to antvtr on the ground It

ttad to laorialnatt at*

"4. %'ho re re four bueloett atsoelattt la

A, X rtfute to aatvtr on tht crouad that

it will laorialnatt at.

%• Who vere your butlneee at«oclat«t In

1932? K. X refuee to anav«r on the ground that

It vlll lnoriclnate «e."

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ftttauae of tat dtftadaat't rtf**al to aamr tht

abort ^MIUM I ht vat prtttatt* bj tht «raad J«ry ftr

ooatespt. After rtetinag adrltt of oooatel ht ptrtlttot

la hit rtfutal aaA «*t •4J«df*4 guiltj »f •oattapt hj A

i«6ct tf tht OalttA 8t«ttt Plttrltt Court aad MAttattt

to tlx Moatht* Uiprltoiuitfitt vhtrtvptn ht took tti»

prtttnt appeal. V« hold that th« Judgsioat waa trronaow*

aad should * • rtvtrtod.

Za dealla?r vith tht prtttntatat for ooattapt tht

court had otfert It onlj tht ojutttloaf irhleh tht *«f•adant Attllatd to tacvtr and it oxprttulf htlA that ao

other part of the ta«tlco&j htfor* tht ^Ttad Jury vat

rtltvaat.

DtftA4Laat*t oouastl atktd ltavt to oxaalat hit '

ttttlBonj btfore the grand jury la ordtr to atoertala

vhtthtr it aid not thov (at oooattl alltgod It Aid)

that ht had bttn •ac^g^d in tht liquor butlattt durlaf

tht joara la %rbleh h« vaa aakad to &.*• \h* aamtt of

hit outlets* attotiattt. Couattl alto atktd tht oourt

to ozaalat tht wlanttt to tot «htthtr tht aatvtrt to

tht <tutttloot atktA vould oot ttad to laorlnlaatt tht

dtftadaat, but tht Judge dteltata to do thit. Couattl

furthtr acked Itairt to oall at a vitnttt a nan aaaed

Baldwlot vho ht tald had baaa aaklog laoose tax iDvt«tlgatlone for the yeare Involved, and aleo to OAII one

Kurra/, vUo had previously ttetlfled at the trial in

the ea6c of Unltefl Str»tc-f v. ?orrlo Vnut ti* «tn, of

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whoa the aefeadaat wat •at, had been enffafet la illegal

liquor aetlvltiee durlag the last two yoare, *••• 1» W

a a d 1939 « . ... .' _ . -.-....-.•.....-.•,.-..,.,• ':;•-;--',;,,-.•;••:--:,..'• .

Tfae foT*ri»«it •ijttt^A to all %»••• Mortti of

proof amd *»• ougtalnod by tho eoart. Tho Aatlftaat

ftlttrlet Attorao/t vho v»t la oharff* of ttot traad Jmry

proe»*diag, vat omllod at a vltaett %j Aofondaat**

OOUA««1 aad aakod what wat th« purpoto of tho lavettl*

ffatlon aad vh«th«r he vat tteklag to laylloatt tho

dtftndaat but, oa objtetloa, tb«t« iattrrogatofloa

vtrt rol«d out.

(Ja th« oouTft of arpuaeat at th» tlat of tho

pr*sentsent defendant*e eooatel ttated that hit client

had been la the liquor butlaeat up to 1955 when the

18th Aaendaent wat repealed. la riew of that oteteaeat

and the apparent attuaptloa of oil ooaeeraed, proof of

who were defendant1t ateoelatea la butlnece alght tead

to eetabllah a ooasplrae/ to rlolate the revenue laws

b/ falling to pmj ta*et, to affix otaapt or to aako

rtturn• under the applicable ttatutety; The repeal of

the 16th Aaendaent would aot validate Tiolatloaa of

the laternal rerenue lawt or oontplraolet whloh had

beta oarrled oa to effect ouoh Tlolatlone. Srldeaoo

aeoetearjr to ohov that defendant wae engaged in a

conspiracy during: the jenr* froa 1928 to 19SS al^ht

veil be supplied \>y proof of the nwoop of buein«e>i
atv*a

tuotUti i o&gag#4 la violatiag tht lava relttlaf *•

the aaaufnetttre or Ml* of liquor. Zf ft con spi reef

wat ohowa 1» thote oarllor jroaro It would ooatlaiio -

nlot o abandoned ftftd the Aofoadaat would have to provo

ftbftftdonmoat 1ft order to take o4v«Atftfo of tbo otatuto .

of lUiUtlone . Hyd» v. Pal tod 8t*Ui. fiC9 D.8. 847,

SCB-5TO; ynltod St»»t#e •. Ho>lnlo>. 91 T.{2A) 911, nt |

Coatet V. ffpltftd gtat»t. 69 r.<£«) ITS, 1T4, CC.C.A. »>.

The Aefeodft&t olalftt, ftnd ir* think with fair rofteoii,

that the aotverc tou^ht would be a llak In the'okftla

of laerial&atlag tettlaoay aad that fee ought aot to bo

ooapellod to C1T« thwe—at loaet If ho ooold thov that

h* vat likely to be enda>red b/ afitverlng. la re

. T+&. Ca». Ko.

142 U.S.

It Is true that the gOYerastct vat &ot obliged to

ditoloee the tettiaony before the gr&&d }*rj or to etato

the purpose of the icquett or whether proteoutioa of the

defendant vsp proposed. But If it ohoe* to adopt eaoh

an attitude aad to confine the Acfeadaat'e defense o&ljr

to ahovi&E that the queetloae aeked were lAQrlaiaatiag

oo their face. It couli sot put his la ooateapt for

declining to answer oo loag as It prevented hla fros

adducing oridenot thiU lelpbt dmoaetrate that his a&evert

were likely to for? Ylt*l ll&kt in the proof of a oon-

•piracy in which h? v/»a involved. In the present

th? gov#rneent prevented hi» from «ho"kfimc that hie
•*. ~-r.-.^*

actvcrt would ton! to lucriKlAate his a*d thereby

deprived hia of ale right to a proper trial where ho

could offer evldjeaoe la hit A«f»»#«. -

Tho geveraaeat police #troa«ly oa ftaeaa v. 0alt«4

EUUi . e«4 O.s. eeet but that &*eUlt» it mo\ •ontr«lXlttJ5. Though It «bovt A ton«»aoy to lt«lt tlM

constitutional privilege to st«»ti*oflgr dlr««tly loorl»-

Inatlng, tht qutttlon vat not there mlt«6 •* to tb*

•dtqw&ey of th« tvidonee »pon vhlch the trial eo«rt

dsoldtd th«t tb* vit&ete v&s not In danger.

All tht •rldtfto« vat kAova to tho oourt vhlch

that It vat aot tttfflftlftatly direct to juttlf/ tht deftnd-

•Jit lc tDTokln^ kit privilege. Uer# «# do not knov the

OTldeace nod the rullAgc of the court that only th«

quettlo&ft thftstelvee vere aaterlel 1& & prooeedlns to

punltb for co&teapt effeotuallj pr<T«&ted It fros being

tllelted.

The ffov«ratzc&t alto rtll.ee OR ti\l,l«r •. United

. ©5 F.(£d) 492C (C.C.I. 0), but there too the

•rldenoe aeoeeeary to determine whether the defendaat't

oonetltutloual lttsunlty might bo laToVed vae not before

the oourt. The oace came up on the JudgaeAt roll without any bill of exception! (p. 49S) and for that reaeon

It vae letpoedblt to e«y vhetlier the defendant there had

been deprived of constitution*! rights or vbether the

ha3 icproperl/ declined ta anever vhen th^re vat

probability nor possibility that h«r anaverit vould

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•bows h*r participation la ft ooatplrao/.

It Bftjr b« arguod that defendant tec not tmstalned

the burd«a of proof feooattoo b* ft»T«r too* 11M ft*ft€ «r

oallod tho oourt etoAogrftphar to staov that thort «*• .

proof btforo tht ^raad Jury that 1M vat •ngaetd la -

unlavfol liquor optratloae b«for« and af*«r 1955, nor

put Hurra/ oo the ttaai to «bov that, ta.vai In tho , .

liquor business la years tubetquttat to 1955 with

a»toolat«e of tarller jroara. It It oloar froa tho

repeated ttat«m«att of the trial Judge that «uth

voold hart bt«n oxol*&»&. AooorCUmgly ho

aot required to adduet It 1»ne«*»« h« vai varno4

b/ the court that aothlng vat r#l»Tant on the pr«t«at-

»ent for eoatrspt «)cc*pt tht quettioati vhlcl* he hnd

refused to anavtr.

For tbe- fortgolng rs^eoat the Jud£&»&t of eonrlctloc c*Rnot stand.

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Speeial A#ent in Charm

lev Tortt, Be* Tork

E£f fUURESS

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fiof erenoe U smde to yowx letter

iation of a financial njfejn

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 AbrahSA Balsa aa^HeflHsaVaf Whoee aetiritias

worthy of "referral to the attention sf the InUrnal fiovoms Borssm of

the Treasury Depsrtajaci* U-, , V

Tb« BurwBi d*tdr«B that you prtpar* end sobsit * brief f

eoneiM blofrtphical «a«ljai« of ih* «rlainal *«iiTitla« and financial

background of tha indtrldmla naaed £a*t abvra. Tha infanMtion att

forth tharain afaimld te aUilar ia oontanl U tha^t o«euina4 i» Ua)

indirldaal natasd Mmarj raporta praparad by yoor offloa in thU twtm i

during tha ouotatr of 1919* Opoa f&lpt, by tha Bureau of this dst*, it

•il l titao ba furalabad to tha Coaaiaaiamr of Xhberoal AwanDo for \

•uob action aa is daoaad appropriata by tbai «4r«ncy* Ibia satter ahould

ba trlran ianodiata atiantion anC, tha data, raqoeatad afaould ba a^aittad

to tfca Buraca within 30 daja from tha raoaipt of this lotUr*

Tba Bureaa daairaa to ba odvlaad of tha outatandinf

davalopusBta in oonnaetloo with tha proaaoution of. tha varloua isdivl4~*

uala iovoltad in thU a«aa# who ara vadsr indiet—nt in Kinft OonuAf§

ErooUyn, Saw Joxk, in ooomction idth tha Mbrdarf Zno« aattor* Zt ia

datirad thai you should eonfar with Eilliam OlD»yart Distriet Attorney,

Kin^a CoaxAj, in oititar to ^sUralas if *o is iajpoosaasian of infor*

amtion iendinf toiodissU tha idanUty of indirltoali"who my have

harbored Loois Boohtltar during his furtive statw* During this taW

torriaa; inforastloB ehould bo obtained ooooer&i&f tha reooyery of tha ~

body of BaraBA Turat^ whoso location was a a*tter of laUrest doriaf

tha instant inquiry oonotminf tba apprehension of Baohslter* Effort

.If sny iaforttation has boon ob^inad *on-

^BsaVaW p disappasred from the tiatro^oliUta |irea>

York and who aay poaaiLly haw been killed at the ^i i &

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Special *g*nt in Chargt

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Ret FCRDRESS

Dear Sir i

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Hay 22, 1940

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

'Washington, D.C.

Re: FUR DRESSING INVESTIGATION.

•. LOUIS BUCHALTER, wit h aliases , FU

X^LOo #U68 , e t al. )

/ ANTITRUST; HARBORING;

CONSPIRACY TO HARBOR.

Special Age advised that during 1939

in conducting

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advises that he after considerable difficult

IIECORDBD & INDEXED

FEDERAL BlftEfllDnNVtS

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Agent M^^^^^^juggeptg that the Bureau if policy permits

direct a letter t^miHHHBH B informing her that the records

reflect that this Bureausottgh^imomation f rom her and that she did

not contact the Seattle Field Office of her own accord, but that Bureau

policy did not permit Agents to supply letters of the nature she had

requested*

In the event the above procedureis not permissible, advice

is requested as to whether Agent JBHIBf nou ^ ^ acknowledge thie letter

and if so, the nature of his re

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lDt*rrl«««d bjr Ma at £nttl«f taghington^ hat b*en

brought to «y atWntioa« W 7 6

p rogolatioa prveludb* ttm

iis»uanc» of a lttter auoh as yon 6*eir* and I

r*gr«t that X aa «n*hl« to eoa^Xy with your

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TROST| RAR30RITO) CONSPIRACY TO HARBOR.*

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Eashington, that »he b« furnished with * coosmniea

t o ttia circ\uagtjij>t« und r which tb« WAS int«nri«w»d by

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*t ^«w York City on Au*u»t 2^, 1939» by this hor—ia, th« error '

In the titlt of rour l«tt«r in carrying Bochslt«r winli d

Fugitive is being esll«d to jrror sttstitioc in ordtr to pr»clud«

t, Bindlw rocurrenct ia tht futur»«

A copy of tht Bureaus

being •ncloe«d herewith,

Very truly yours.

Soelosare

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Zee>feoschell o/ J/TiS caJ2ed. Joe^Connelley asked

the Washington Office to ascertain whether William

O'Dwyer, prosecuting Attorney in New York, has. seen

the Attorney General regarding the relapse of^uchalter,

Haschell was advised that the Attofn'e^ Veneral did

not see O'Dayer but ioas referred to Jim Bennett,

Connelley was advised of this but he wanted a routine

check made to see if O'Dwyer had called at the Bureau and

he wanted to know the Bureau's plans with reference to

Buchalter.

After talking to you I calledutr, Jiaschell \and

informed him that the Bureau had nothing to do with this

matter. ReuEASE" P€"/^ \ rt 3

Respectfully,

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Personal and

September 24, 1940

ron TF.E £T?or,nvY cEXIT.AX,

/ollovinr infomatton hat been received fron a source

to\ich it generally reliable end J cat tranaattiing it to you le~

cause it appears to pertain directly to a reject to be aade, if

it hc.3 not Already been »ac'e, to pcrnit Lepke'JBuchdter, presently •

a Federal jsfitoncr in Lcaveni?6rtk, Zcnoas, to tie' taken to Few York

City /or trial on a murder im'.ictnentm I thought you xsould be <

Hntcrcoted in/thc/ccta outlined hereafter because vhtle all of *—

thie ettudiiok aay be a political squabble^ it is probable never* '

thdesv fujS pcreons unj'rtenlly to you titrht accuse you,of having C

political^SrOttvcs in the event you decline to pcrnit Euchalter to-^

be -taken ¥6 It'eu Tork City in connection viih thie natter* ' ^
for the

Attorney General

/ , of course, am not investigating this natter and have

not attempted to establish any vf these allegations by investigation* 1 did believe, houever, that you should have this natcriol

available /c r your consideration in connection with any request

to have Suchalter returned to ;/«? Tor* City*

Respectfullyt

John L'dpar L'oover

Director
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MEMORANDUM FDR MR. E. A.

Re: "Eugseyj Siegel

Notorious Criminal - New York City

September 26, 1940,!,.,

At the above indicated time e. call was received from a

local telephone in Washington, D.C., from an individual who would

not identify himself^ He insisted on speaking to "John Hoover"

personally. He would not explain the nature of his business other

than to state that it concerned "Eugsey" Siegel of New York.

n advised that the Director was not available at the

time the caller became abusive in his criticism of the Eureau's lack

of interest and stated that he would be in to talk to the Director

sjiersonally in the morning. He demanded that an Agent be sent to "get

me immediately so.'"! ctn talk to Hoover"but etill would not give hie

name and eddres6 unless assured he would be called for.

When the call vas terminated the caller was approprietely

advised of the Bureau's attitude in regard to information volunteered*

This memorandum is being submitted for your information in view of

the caller's advise that he v;ill call at the Director's office to

report his information and to see that the writer is "taken care of"

for his attitude. It might be noted that although the caller did not

sound-drunk he mentioned that he had just "had hell beat out of" himself

by "a couple of niggers".

Respectfully,

Night Supervisor

P. S, The Files Division advised that although there is no main file

on Subject there are about 100 references indexed for him and he ie

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referred to the Attorney General by M. H. Mc-^ntyre,

[Secretary to the President^and which was then referred

vb Be by the Division of TJecards.

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Bade for the files of this Bureau, and no investigation

will be Bade of the facts related therein unless you

advise ae that possibly some Federal statute has been

violated and you desire an investigation conducted.

Very truly yours,

John Edgar Hoover

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that befor e he would render a decision a s wo

granting ijssoxnity t o HEIZS and TANNBIBOTMM

would hare, t o study the law as t o how fa r he

could go as t o granting ianmnity t o thes e two

individual* for testifying for the gorernaent

oonceming the harboring of BUCHAWBR. Mr.

EHfNEDI presently arranging to confer with

District Attorney O'OTIER as to what inforaa- :

tion he has in his possession as to the harbor-'

Ar\fr of pp^T.Tgg.^ 'p. s. Circuit Court ef --

"Appeals on July 29, 1940, rendered an opinion

reversing U. S. District Court, SMI, conviction

of *m>Tr SHAPIRO *Tr^ others on two

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Attorney," Caatem Dirtriot of Bew Tork, waa* contacted by reporting

agent, and the oontenta^of the letter to the Bureau dated July 9#

1940, as to the harboring of BUCBALTER were eonvayed to his, and

he adTised Agent that before he could reach a decision in the

utte r he would hare to study the law as to how far he could go

with granting iaanuity to ABBAHAU BELES and ALBEBT TANNENBAUU for

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tbeir furnishing evidence to tbe federal government concerning

the harboring of LOUIS BUCHALTEBj further, that be desired to

review the recent decision tended down by the 7. 8. Circuit Court

of Appeals rereraiag the U. S. District Court's conviction of_

CARL SEAPIBO and others, which decision is more parttettlarly

referred t o later en in this report'. '\?>W?.£ "•ti'^v.-V •

' It might be stated that since the Interview with "0. S.

Attorney EBED T on September 10, 19^0i he has been contacted on

several occasions, and mp to this writing he has rendered no decision as to what action he intends to take as to granting Immunity

to ABE BELES and ALBERT TAXNENBAUM for furnishing information to

the federal authorities as to harboring BUCHALTER, and when last

contacted, on September 30, Mr* KENNEDY stated that he was endeavoring to arrange for an interview with Mr. O'DIXER as to what

information he may possess that would be of assistance to the

government in the prosecuting of numerous individuals for harboring

BUCHALTER in the Eastern District of lev lork..

On July 29, 1940, the United States Circuit Court, in an

opinion written by Judge THOMAS W. SWAN, reversed the U. S. District Court, Southern District of New lork, conviction of CARL

SHAPIRO, NATHAN BORISH, SAVUEL SMITH, PHILIP KASAXOVE, THE RAISIGH

MANUFACTURERS, INC., a Maryland corporation, and the same organisation incorporated in Vew lork, and FLORENCE DVXER, on two indictments charging thea with conspiracy to harbor JACOB SHAPIRO and

LOUIS BUCHALTER through supplying them $250 weekly which they

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The decision sets out the fact that aiding and abetting

a prisoner to escape from an arresting officer or to escape from

prison, or aiding to evade arrest thereafter in any manner is

criminal, but that harboring or concealing from arrest on a warrant must refer to some physical act tending to the secretion of

the body* Supplying funds to fugitives does not fall under this

beading, the court held. It states in effect that the defendants

are charged with a conspiracy to harbor, and since giving money

to fugitives does not.constitute harboring such, acts cannot con- .

Stitute a conspiracy to harbor. The demurrer to the indictment r

should have been sustained, in the opinion of the court. j:\ ;

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forwarded to the Bureau with letter dated July 30, 1940. assie- "'"••

tent United States Attorney JEROME DOTLE was contacted regarding

the reversal of the United States Circuit Court Decision on the

harboring above referred to, and he advised that the United States

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recoenending that an appeal be taken from the Circuit Court's

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HOliN and JOHN DOB (Charles) SOULOUMAIS as to whoa the indictaent

in the instant case was eerered.

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to BERJATON BAXg/ SAUUEL ICTTiaCaU and the QUEENS tVR TBESSLBQ

CCBPAKX In re U.S. TS . Protectire Fur Dressers Corporation, etal.

. . Will keep in touch with Assistant United .States Attorney ..

JERiDKE DOZIE» Southern ZHstdet of Kew Tork/ae to the outcoae of >"

the appeal to be taken from the Ciroult' Court* a opinion as^to theW

rerereal of the United States District Court decision on the

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the Circuit Court's opinion re the harboring charge 1 A the captioned

aatter, will obtain photographic copies of pictures ahowing the

eradicated writing on 8 pages of the payroll book of the Raleigh

Manufacturers, Inc., Government Exhibit 13, and return to the

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Eastern District of Hew lork, as to what decision he has reached

regarding granting iawmnity to ABRAHAM SEX£S and IIBSSI TAWJEHBADM

should they famish information to the federal gorernmentas to --

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KENKEDI is arranging -with Mr* O'lMTES, District Attorney, lings

County, Sew lork, regarding the latter's turning or ear information

to the federal government as to the harboring of BUCBAIXER.

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Dear Siri

Reference is made to Bureau letter of August8

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dated October 7, 1940 at New lork City.

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Please be adviaedthatonOctobc r 8, 1940 Special -7 £_, 1(* f|BBMBHB*interviewed Honorable *> >

States Attorney for the Eastern District

of New Tork, who stated that on the afternoon of September 30,

1940 he had conferred with Mr. William 0'Dryer, District

Attorney, Kings County, Brooklyn, New Tork, concerning information he possessed as to the harboring of LOUIS BUGHALTER.

lfr. Kennedy stated that at this meeting Mr. O'Dwyer

expressed himself as being interested mainly* in the granting,

of imminityjfrom prosecution by the Government to ABRAHAJf^ffiLES

and ALBER^TANNENEAU M who by their testimony could assist the

Government in making a harboring case* Mr* O'Dwyer was also

interested In the testimony that RELES had given before the

"Harboring" Qrand Jury, Southern District of Hew Tork, and also

in knowing how long the statutes run In Federal

perjury and conspiracy to harbor* ,. . .

Mr. O'DwyeT'vSKnteered the information

BOCHALTER. was a fugitive he resided at the homes of

and oneVZACCARRINI (phonetic), wife's

residence being located in the Red Hook section df Brooklyn,

New Tork, adding that at these locations (no str-*'ni'

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Kennedy stated that he did not press Mr, O'Dwyer along these

lines as to the harboring of BUCHALTER at Brooklyn, New Tork

for the reason that he aade no promises as to the granting of

inanity to RELES and TANNENBJgM.

Mr* Kennedy also stated that he subsequently advised

Mr. O'Dwyer as to the statute of limitations in perjury and

harbor!

Mr* Kennedy further added that since his interview

with Mr* O'Dxyer he had been in touch by phone with Mr* Mathias

Correa, Chief Assistant to the United States Attorney, Southern

District of New Tork,, regarding RELES' testimony before the

/"Harboring" Grand Jury, Southern District of New Tork, on

/August 22 and 23, WAji, to the effect that he did not, know

BUCHALTER and after'oeing shown pictures of BUCHALTER denied

ever having seen him before.

Mr* Kennedy in closing stated that it was his intention

to again contact Mr. O'Dwyer in the near future and inform him

that the Government would make no promises to RELES and TANNENBAUII

for information they may possess as to the harboring of BUCHALTER;_

further that should RELES and TANNENBAUU appear before the

Federal Grand Jury, Eastern District of New Tork, they would

be doing so subject to being prosecuted in the event any information developed before this body which would implicate them

in a Federal offense*

Mr* Kennedy also added that to his knowledge there

were actually twelve murder indictments now pending in Kings

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persons involved as defendants and that RELES and TANNENBAUM

would be state witnesses; further that it will take between one

and two years to prosecute these oases*

Mr* Kennedy added also that he would be glad to furnish any information to the New Tork Division Office which is

developed by him from Mr. O'Dwyer, and in view of this fact,

Mr* Kennedy will be contacted in approximately ten days.

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While talking with Assistant SAC Querin

of New York he advised the Nev York World-Telegram

and the Post carry stories concerning the possibility

of Lepke Buchalter's talking and indicate that

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Please be advised that the stop notices on

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October *, 1941

60-1501

Special Agent In Charge

Vev Toxic, Kew York

JUHDKESS - HIKBQHIW

Dear Sir*

Tour division and th« divisions to *hlch copies

of this letter are directed arc instructed to complete

the investigation nenr pending In this ease without further

delay, submitting reports to the Bureau reflecting the

results thereof within twenty days after the receipt of

this letter.

Very truly yours,

John Edgar Hoorer

Director

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Philadelphia

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Ktw York, H. Y.

12.' October 10, 1941.

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir* HARBORING

I)

For the Information of the Bureau there is being

submitted herewith a manorandumjdate^October 9, 1941, which was

turned over to Special Agent, VflfljjfHHHP ^7 Harold It. Kennedy,

United States Attorney, Brook^f^ewTorkJa s to his exchange

of numerous long distance telephone calls between the latter's

office and that of the District Attorney'of Los Angeles County,

Log-Angeles, California, also with William Fleet Palmer^ United

States Attorney, Los Angeles, California and Mr. Hugh'Fisher, Act'

ing Head, Criminal Division, Department of Justice at Washington,

C. with respect to the status of Subject, BENJAMIN "BUGS"

who besides being indicted in the captioned case,~has

been recently indicted on a charge of murder at Los Angeles, CalifIn connection with the above it should be stated

that on Uay 29, 1941, United States Commissioner, DAVID B. HEAD,

at Los Angeles, California, on conclusion of a removal hearing

ordered SIB3EL removed to the Eastern District of New York, and

permitted SIEGEL at liberty upon placing a $25,000 bond which

was returnable on notice to the Federal Court, Brooklyn, New York.

On October 1, 1941 when the trial of captioned

case was called before Federal Judge MARCUS CAMPBELL^JBrooklyn,

New York, same was put over to October 15, 1$41«M f

On October 2, 1941 United States «»w*«^ t ,,

HAROLD U. KENNEDY, notified Subject SIEDEL at his residence 250-°r

W. Delfejj Dr., West Los Angeles, California, to appear at .the

Federal Court at Brooklyn, New York, on or before 0cioberVji5',

1941, to answer to the indictment *-

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"•rote $25,000 on BEDEL. " '••:.•

The Bureau will be kept advised in the satter.

Very truly yours,

Enc.

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to mwid proaecntlon caee. £ev Xork file £6-335* Lee

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States SJrpartment of

New York, N. Y.

October 10, 1941.

Director,

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington, D. C.

RE: TURDRESS;

HARBORING.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to Bureau letters dated

September 6th, 1941 and October 4th, 1941, Bureau file 60-1501;

In reference to Bureau letter of September 6,

1941 wherein it calls attention to the fact that the latest

report submitted by the New York Field Office in the captio:

matter is that of Special Agent^^mm f New York,

that since sub4^A

 v N. Y., dated l!ay 10, 1941, please ".

mission of latter.

Agent,

July

eport two additional reports by Special

have been submitted, same being dated

u~gust 21, 1941. i _

A subsequent report has been dictated and is

in the process of being typed and upon completion -will be forwarded to the Bureau and interested offices.

Very truly yours,

P. E. FOXWORTH,

Assistant Director.

2 OCT 13 1941

•T Cr JUSTICE
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FEDERAL BUHEA.U OF INVESTIGATION

Origin: KEW YORK CITY N.Y. Pile 60-302

Made at:

HEW YORK CITY

Sate:

10/21/41

Period;

8/13 10/4/41

ide By:

Charr.ctc-r:

,UTTITEUST, E*E3QRIK&,

COSSPIE«CY TO HARBOR,

PERJUEY.

Title :

LOUlsQjCHALTEE, with aliases:p J

;'3iuckhouse, Louis "BuckhalteFT ljouisT-^Cawer, Louis

jEohen, Louis Suckalter, Louis.Kauvar, Louis

Dackholta, Louis Lauvar, Louis Gaffer, Limib

ICauver, /°LepkyV:"Lefky", ""Sefky", Louis .Buchholtz, Judge-Lewis,'"Judge", "The

Judge", "JudgCLouie", JudgejBrodsky, Loui^rodsky, OiJBuchalt", Louis.Waiver,

Philip W.; Wilson;

JAC03'§HAPAIE0, with aliases:'"Gurrah", Charles Shapiro, Morris Friedman,

SamueT l)ishouse, Sanuel Disnahusen, Samuel .i)isnahausen,H1Lefty Garrar", Saauel

Disahuse, Charles Goldberg. /

ALB2ET .AKASTASIA, with aliases: Albert -Anastasio, E. Albert-Aaastasio,

Albert -Anastasio, Albert Bornesi, FJGITIVE; \^"

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SAK S.' SEO'AIT, with aliases4. "Fat", Sidney 3rown, Sidney Richards, Sid Brown,

Joseph 3radley, Joseph SO"3radley, Samuel S. Brown; •

LOUIS CAFOKE, alias Luigi Capone; . /\

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:TI «fiAXWQL&r-**th aliases: "Big Zack", Zack

Zaccerino, Carvelto Zacc^rinOj Narita Vacharino, Zaccarino Cavelto,

ZeanibriP. Carvetto, Zaccarino Cairtolo, Zaceins^Jairtalo, Caviteli Zaccarinoi

Cavitora-Zaccarino, Zaccarino-£avitola, Zaccerino" Cp.vitolo, Cavitoli Eaccarinf

"Zack11/"Big Jack";

Ai<TIOKETTE ZACCHASINI'/CAVITOLO;

PHILIP'COHZiT, with aliases: ^Farvel", Jack Xifsky, Fhillip Kangano, '"Little

Farvel", 'Phillip Kofsky;

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'B3TJAKIK KUTLOV/ITZj with aliases: 3enjamin-fcitlow, ToE'Iutlow, "Cutty11,

^Cuddy", BenjacinrFeingold, Charles Cohen;

LOUIS MARTAEZLLO ,

Approved and

Copies: . f!J

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- Washington Field,*T

2 - Albany (Eaff.)^' 2 - Hiani

1 Los Angeles (Inf.) 2- ilewark

2 - Buffaj;^.

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MASIAT50STRA;

ABBAHAM 3ELES, with aliases: '"Kid Twist", Abraham^fiosen, Abe fteles,

John'-Bruno, Abeitelis, Abraham--&elis, George-Luvish, Abe-Murphy,

AbrahanTjfcoth,, Alfred-Roth, Abr aham'-Bruno, AbrahamJKirsh, George

JLunish, "The^iug", Abe^osen, George-^Livish, George-liuvich;

SIDNEY "SALLIS, with aliases: * Shimmy11',' "Karry^illiams, John;

:;iSiematkowsky, --"Chemf ";

^.BEKJAKIH'SIEGE1, with aliases: "Sugsy", Benjamin "Bugs'1 ^Siegel,

'•'Bugs11, JDerish Siegel,. Harry Eosen, Benjamin"1 Sanger, Benjamin Segal,

Bennie Siegel, Ben Siegel;

AL3EB31 TAKl^SiJBAUl'l, with aliases: .Al'-Tannenbaun, Alljr Tannenbaum,

^""Alley", Allie Tannenba-om, AlberC^/hitman, Albert,)Schaefer, Albert

• -Schaffer;

2MANUSL WEISS, with aliases: Mendy Veiss, Samuel Weiss, Mandy

Weiss, Mendel Cohen, Joe Hoffman, Sea Klein, Emanuel Samuel Wei6s, •

Jack Eline, Jack Mendy, Joe Mendy, "Mendy"; /

HOE ^OLIKSKY, with aliases: "Dimples", Moey Dimples, Volen ^Dimples,

Wolen, M. Volen, Ifex Wolen, Moe Wolen, Moey Dimples Wolen, Dimples

Wolen, Morris Wolen, Morris Dimples .'••Wolen, Dimples Vfolensky, Korris

Wolensky, Moe Dimples Wolensky, Dimples Wolinsky, More Dimples

'Wolinsky, Moe Wollen, San Vollen, "Moey", Morris Volensky, Korris

Walinsky, Morris-Wolinsky, Korris Friedman;

CHARLES ¥03Kt-lA.K, with aliasesT "Charlie the Bug", Jack "Cohen ,*

Jack Harris7>"Tootsie".

sruopsis OF FACTS: Subject BROWls appeared Federal Court,

EDHY, August 15, 1941, entered plea of Not

Guilty to harboring indictment. Released

under bond of $5000. Trial now set for

October 15, 1941. US Attorney, EDNY arranging

to have subject SIEGEL appear in Brooklyn,

Hew York on 10/15/41 to enter his plea to the

Harboring indictment. New York State Murder

Trial at Brooklyn, N.Y. of LOUIS BUCHALTER,

together with -subjects EMANUEL W3ISS and LOUIS

CJIPONE got under way on 9/15/41. Subject

PHILLIP COHSK obtained a severance in the State

Murder case. Results of investigation conducted

as to whereabouts of subject ANASTASIA reported

herein. _

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ELFEREKCE: Report of Special Agent

at Kew York August J:

Report of Special jug ~~

Miami, Florida,

Report of Special Agent

Miami, Florida, July 7, 1941.

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DETAILS:

At ITew York City;

On August 15, 1941, subject SAM S. BROW]>; appeared

before Federal Judge MATTHEW J. AB3HUZZI0, Eastern District

cf Sew York, and entered a plea of l*ot Guilty to the

Harboring indictment and was released on furnishing e bond

of $5000. Trial at this arraignment was set for October

1, 1941.

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The District Attorney of Sullivan County has expressed himself

that successful prosecut^n could not be had in the Sullivan County

murder case unless flfl^^Kwas tried with BROaiJ aid 1CUTLOWITZ.

On august 15, 1S41, after the arraig TJT?OV"-T i n th e

Jourt, Brooklyn, Hew York^

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of the New York Field Division, who is

nvestieation in the case

also present at the tiae 3ROWIT was arraigned in the Federal Court

in the captioned harboring case nnd in viey_of the attitude taken

by BROWH.*

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The trial of the harboring case in the Eastern District of

Hew York, which had been set down for October 1, 1S41 was put over

on the latter date by Federal Judge MARCUS CAMFBELL to October

15, 1941. In thi6 connection, it might be stated that subject

BSNJAKIK "Bugs" SISGEL, who is presently under bond of $25,000

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awaiting call by the United States Attorney, Eastern District of

Hew York for pleading in the instant case, was, on October 3,

1941, requested by the United Strtes Attorney HAROLD KSIEEDY,

to make an appearance in the Federal Court, Eastern District

of Hew York, on 'October 15, 1*941. . ' •

|Hew York City Folice Department,

attached to District Attorney's office, Kings County, New York,

has advised the writer that on the date of September '2J3.1941, a

superseding indictnent had been returned in the County of Los

Angeles, California, charging subject BSTJAKIE "Bugs" SILGHL and

PP^Fr. CAE30 with the murder of . HARRY' GRiMBERC-, alias "BIG G

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Kr. K3IOZDY, on being acquainted with the aforesaid facts,

expressed hinself to the agent as being willing to release B E

SII.5SL to the county authorities at Los Angeles, California after

he had entered his plea in the harboring indictment at the

Federal Court of Brooklyn, ilev: York, though he would not release

SIE&SL from the bond he is now under in the Federal Court.

The trial of LOUIS 3UCHALTER, LOUIS CAPOilS, Zl-iAKUSL WEISS,

nil subjects in the captioned cr.se for the murder of JOSLPH ROSEIT

on September 13, 1936, at Brooklyn, i'ev; York, commenced in the

Kings County Court rX Brooklyn on September 15, 1941, before

County Judge FSAI:K1IIH* TAYLOR. Up to this writing, °ctober 8, 1941,

only four jurors have been seated.

Subject PHILLIP C0H2U, who was also indicted in connection

with the St£-te murder of JOSEPH ROSSK obtained a severance Sijd'is

'..td.be'triedseparately in connection with the murder of R05EK.

For the information of the file, subject JACO B SKAPAIEO

arrived at the Federal House of Detention, I!ev> York on September

15, 1941 from the United States Medical Center Prison at

Springfield, Mo, having been subpoenaad as a witness for the

defense in the State murder trial. .

The writer has been attending the Str.te murder trial of

subjects BUCHALTSR, CAPOKS and VSISS at Brooklyn, Hew York

and up to this tine, no information has been disclosed that

would be helpful to the captioned case.
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Investigation, looking toward, the whereabouts and apprehension

of ALBERT AKASTASIA.

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For the benefit of the Albany and Washington Field Divisions,

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appropriate investigation, it Eight be stated that on April 16, 1941,

a Federal Grand Jury for the Eastern District of Hew York, returned

an indictment charging the following named subjects with harboring and

conspiracy to harbor, in violation of Section 246, US Code, Title 18,

Section 88, US Code, Title 18.

ALBERT AKASTASIA , with aliases

SAM H. 3R0WE, with aliases

LOUIS CAP0I7E, vlth aliases

ZACCHARINI CAVITOLO, with aliases

ANTOINETTE ZACCHARINI CAVITOLO

PHILIP COHEN, with aliases

BENJAMIN EUTLOWITZ, with aliases

", ' LOUIS'KARTARELLO, with aliasye

KARI* NGSTRA

SIDNEY SALLIS, vith aliases (deceased)

BENJAKI N SIEGEL, vlth aliases

MOE WOLINSKY, with aliases

CHARLES VORKLiAlT, with aliases

EMANUEL 'ffilSS, vith aliases

All of the aforementioned subjects have bee-, apprehended

with the exception of AKASTASIA, whose descripticji is as follows:

i\ane:

Age:

Height:

YJeight;

3uild:

Hair:

Eye s:

Color:

Complexion:

Place of Birth:

Occupation:

New York Folice Number:

Last known addressL

Albert Anastasio, R. Albert i

Anastasio, Albert Amastasio,

,Albert Bornesi.

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5 ft. 9 in.

202 lbs.

Stocky

Dark Chestnut

Brown

White

Dark

Italy

Salesman

357939, dated 10/22/36

842 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, N.Y.

A photograph of subject AKASTASI A is being attached to the

copies of this report narked for the Albany and Washington Field

Division?, for assistance in conducting investigation.

ENCLOSURES FOR ALBdSTT and WASHINGTON FIELD DIVISIONS

1 Photograph of ALBERT AKASTASIA.

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UNDEVELOPED LEADS

THE MlhMI FIELD DIVISION

•Will keen in touch with'

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THE PHILADELPHIA FIELD DIVISION

THE BALTIMORE FIELD DIVISION

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* At Wilmington, Dela"are, will follow out the lead set out in

reference report of Special Agen 194]

THE NEWARK FIELD DIVISION

*At Newark, New Jersey, v.'ill ascertain I _

"""_] .as listed on page 24 of

eference report of "Special AgernT^^^^Ml^^fc^dated at Nev York

Ishculd be discreetly

interviewed as ^tp wHaTinformation they aay be atle_^o_furnish

would lead ^BflH^kHHHHHHHH[H

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'' *At Newark, New Jersey, will also conduct appropriate

investigation concernii

•At Newark, Hew Jersey, will conduct ap

gation at Newark,

THE CHICAGO FIELD DIVISION

*Will review the statements oi __

'which will "be noted^~on pages 58 \p 12S inclusive,

as noted in the report of Special Agent^m^HHitf R dated 1-9-41

at New York City. It is requested th?t after reviewing these statements, Chicago office conduct, appropriate investigation by interviewing

all persons in Chicago who had contacts with

These personsjBhpuld.be questioned as to'

•Will obtain all pertinent data from the persons interviewed

relative to anything they Eight be able_tc> furnish concerning EMAHUE1

WEISS, a subject of this investigation.

THE BUFFALO FIELD DIVISION

•Will also conduct

It will be noted on Page 9 of this re

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not, consideration should be given to the advisability of making

further checks to fugitive JUIASTASIA at*

THE LITTLE ROCK FIELD DIVIStGH

*.n.t Hot Springs, Arkansas, will ascertain _

and discreetly Interview this

THE *I,B*HY FIELD DIVISION

Saratoga Springs, New York, will ascertain the identity and

-n&bany Field Division consider it adyisab'le to

desirable that the identity HflM|Hflm

THS WASHINGTON FISLD DIVISION

is

established.

At the office of the Department of Justice, Immigration and

Naturalization Section, Alien Registration, Washington, D.C., will

as cer taint

A~^availab'le information should

be obtained.

THE LOS ANGELS S FIELD DIVISION

Will report the outcome of the State trial of subject BEiWAMIN

"BUGS" SISGSL and FRnlJK CARB O who are nov; under indictment in the

County of Los Angeles, California for the murder of HARRY GREEKBERG,

alias "BIG GBEEHIE".

THE HEW YORK FIELD DIVISION

* Will report the outcome of the state murder trial of LOUIS.

BUCHALTSR, and subjects EUAHUEL VSISS, LOUIS CAPOi^S-: " ^~" ,

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•Will keep in touch with the United States Attorney, EaSOLD

KZMEDY, Eastern District of Kew York, and report subject SIEGSL's

appearance in the Eastern District of ITew York for pleading to the

indictnent in this case.

•will locate and question

ee page lv of the repor

of reference of Special Agent

*Will obtain fron

ee page 225,

reference report of 1/9/41, NYC.)

•At Hew York, H.Y. will pake efforts to identify the hone

address oi

•Will make efforts to locate the present whereabouts of

••••••QHPwil l interview hid at the New York Field Division

at length and in detail concern!:

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page 13, reference report,

*Vill locate and interview

jje noted on page 39, second paragraph, reference report,

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Will discreetly interview

eche may "be in possession of information that nay be helpful to this

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DIRECTOR

Time 9:30 A.M.

$eoeral Bureau of Imieatlgation

United §tates Department of Justice

83ast?mgton, B. CL

November 8, 1941

MEMORANDUM FOR MR. E. A . TAffll

Re: FURDRESS - HARBORING

With reference to the attached letter dated October 27s

1941, from the Philadelphia Field Division, I called SAC Sears regarding the request that the Philadelphia Office be advised whether the

offer ofjKt^^forin^ormation leading to the ar_rest of Albert Anastasia a"^^HHHHIMV applied only to in/o rnant VMHHP V or to

any informant subsequently developed by that office.

* b z Ur. Sears stated Agent J/^/^is handling this matter. I

told Mr. Sears to straighten him out on our policy in regard to rewards, namely that we cannot have a reward outstanding. I told Mr.

Sears in the event information is received from any informant which

leads to the arrest of the fugitives, we could p robably go higher

than t^eflflHH^&ut that we cannot have a reward outstanding.

Mr. Sears stated the picture has changed considerably

since the attached letter was written and that a letter is presently

en route to the Bureau setting forth complete details.

COPTF.S DESTROYED

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Attachment

Respectfully,

0SE.

FEDERAL BURtAU Of I WESliGJ

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Unttcb §tatcfl Drpartmcnt of if untie c

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

October 27, 1941

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington, D. C.

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RE: FJRDRSSS - HARBORING

Dsar Sir:

Reference is made to Bureau lette r dated October

15, 1941, in Trhich this office is advised that the Bureau -will not

authorize,. the expend!ture

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 "the activitie s of

> in his efforts^oascertai n the whereabouts of

A15ER?ArASTASIA and tHHW||M^ h s ^^ter. being a fugitive in

an Unlavrful Flight to Avoid prosecution - Murder case.

'•was advised concerning the above information

and vraa also infer.-ed that ti:e Eursau vro-old authorize pay;nent of

'each for information leading to the apprehension of the two

"aBove-naned individuals.

For the information of the I

requested that "this office be advised "whether

'or information leading to the arrest of eaci

only tfflflm^or to any informant that nay

be developed byTn^soffice. In this regard, it is

tha off

of"

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pointed out that there is a ""iTanted" notice contained in the files

of the Philadelphia Police Department, issued by the New York

police Departnent, vjhich states in substance that the latter

Department -.-all offer ^500.00 dead or alive for the apprehension

of either of these individuals.

Very truly yours,

Special Agent in Charge

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3Ittit*ib State© department of ifcsstfc?

New York, N.Y.

October 31, I9I4I

Director

Federal Bureau of Invest

Yfashington, D. C

Dear Sir:

on

RE: FURDRESS

HARBORING

Special Agent fHIHflllHHB of this office has

at on October 28, 19iil^ouring the noon recess

irk,.State trial of Louis ..(LepkepBuchalter^

advised me

of the N

Emajiuel/Ulendy)u' Weiss and Louis'* Cap one for the murder of

JoseghPRpsen. on September 13, 193.6, in Brooklyn, he was

pro "ached

aptells me that he advised

nformation to furnish

of this meeting between

were related by Agent

Assistant Distric t Attorney Burton B. Turkus.of Kings County

who is trying the State murder case . This information was

given to Mr. Turkus upon completion of the' court session,on

the afternoon of October 28, I9I1-I.

for the information of the Bureau.

P. E. POXWORTH7

Assistant Director

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November 7, 191^1

Director,

Federal Bureau of Investigation,

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HARBORING.

Reference is made to Bureau letter dated

October 21, l$Ul, file No. 6O-I5OI.

There has been, between October 1,

and October 15, 19^1* an exchange of telephone calls and

correspondence between Mr. Harold Kennedy, the United

States Attorney of the Eastern District of New York, and

the ^office of the United States Attorney, Los Angeles,

California, the office a£- District Attorney, Los Angeles

County, and with Otto^Chri.stenson, Attorney at Lav/,

Lo-s-Angeles, California, v.ho represents BENJAMIN. "BUGS"

SIEGEL, relative to the bond of $25,000 calling for "the

appearance of SIEGEL, at the pedoral Court at Brooklyn,

New York, on October 15, 19U-1 • Please be advised, however, that at no time was l.'r. Kennedy or the New York

Field Division aware of SJEGEL's whereabouts.

In connection vi th the above, it might be

stated that Mr.. Kennedy was in. receipt of a letter dated

October 13, 19^1* from Attorney Christenson advising that

SIEGEL had surrendered himself on October 10, I9I+I, to

Los Angeles County and is now incarcerated in the Los .>>.'•

Angeles Cojnty Jail on an indictment charging murder.

Mr. Kennedy is to withhold the forfeiting of . » -,\>

SIEGEL 'S Don d f° r k1 8 appearance in the United States •"" "v

District Court in and for the Eastern District of New York

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Director New York, Hew York

60-302 November 7,

so long as he, SIEGEL, is in the custody of the authorities of the County of Los Angeles.

The trial of the harboring case in the

Eastern District of New York is now set for January 7*

191*2.

Very truly yours,

P. E. F0XV.0RTH,

Assistant Director.

cc Los Angeles

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Special igent in Charge
October 25$ 19U

Special Agent in Char&t

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FUHSRE5S ••?

Harboring*

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In reply to your letteroT October 6, 1941* the Bureau

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However, the Bureau «il l Authorise the paycent of

tnforaatlon furnished b^gg///ffHtAAi.r^, %© the »ppre.t»n«lon

the tvo above-neaed individuals or ft total of MHHP* o r ia

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TH IS CASE ORIGINATES AT NEVf YORK, NEW YORK FILE NO.

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LOUIS BUCHALTER, With Aliases, et alj . /

ALBERTPANASTASIA, Tilth Aliases—FUGITIVE

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CHARACTER OF CASK

ANTITRUST, HARBORING,

CONSPIRACI TO HARBOR,

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SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Alien Registration Division, Immigration

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and Naturalization Service, United States Department of Justice,

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CHARACTER OF CASEAUTITHUST; HABBGRINQ;

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CASE ORIGINATED AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK PILE NO. 60—64

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& S.OBROWN, was: LOUIS°CAPONE, wasj'e t al .

REPORT MADE »Y

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CONSPIRACY TO HARBOR:

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At Miami, Florida.

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CASE ORIGINATED AT MEW YORK, HST YORK " FILE NO. 60-16 8

3RTMADEAT

ELASZLrKIA, PA.

OATE WHEN MADE

10/22/a

PERIOD FOR

WHICH MASK

DUI5 BUCHALT3R 7/ith alliases i ;

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10/3,6,13/41

'ALBERT ANASTASIA

REPORT MADE BY

CHARACTER OP CASK

/ ANTITRUST, HARBORING;

Lth aliases, Fugitive;'dAlI S.3 BROwiI, v.ith aliases! CONSPIRACY TO HARBOR;

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Additional investigation in the neighborhood ofL___—-(|||W<>BI><^^_

hone, failed to produce anything which would be o^value in tile

location of SIDKEY BROYftZ. It is the consensus of opinion that

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UNDEVELOPED LMDS

PHILADELPHIA FIELD DIVISION

AT CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA

Will, a t the Sun Hotel, conduct a discree t

investigatio n looking toward the apprehension of Fugitive Albert

•fc-nastasio.

AT Pr'TLA^ELPFIA, P^SYLVANIA

re-contact^ _

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*PORT MADE AT

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LOUIS BUCHALT3R vat-h_aliases;

BENJA3HN««IEGBEL with aliases, Fugitive

CHARACTER OF CASE

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CONSPIRACT TO HARBOR PERJURY

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RE: MURDER INCORPORATED i

Mr. Jfollomm _

*/. Harks

T»l«. Kcem

TWIT Room

Mr. Nw t

Mlu Buhra

Mlu Cuid>

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advise that Aoranam {AU£) Reles, a star witness

in the above case, it was learned, just committed

suicide by jumping out of a window in the Half Moon

Hotel in Coney Island this morning. No other facts

are available this morning.

^ is recalled that Abraham (ABE) Reles

and Al&et$$anngn.bawn are the principal witnesses

for the Bureau in the harboring case filed against

^Buchalter. The subjects in the harboring case were

-indicted on April 16, 1941, which indictment was

returned by a Federal Grand Jury of the Eastern

District of New York, Brooklyn, New York, against

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Director, PHI

Attention! Assistant Director A. Rosen

Re | ALBERTOVANASTASIA

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thais/la being transmitted herewith

cliDDing from thellfew York Journal American, dated

leptembfr 28, 19W. with reference to the above named

individual, about whom I spoke to Mr, Rosen on

September 28th*

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 The Master Sergeant stood at the $100 window

5n the Belmont Park, Race Track clubhouse and

bought $600 worth of tickets on the favorite:*••£*£

This reporter rubbed his eyes hard, certain this was a''c

"of mistaken identity. But it +: - „ —,»»„»„. „.„'.,, »„

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The bettor was Alberto^fefi,

'Alj Anastasia, 44, onee deBcribed -by District Attorney

"William D'Dwyer as the "top

man" in Murder,. Inc. Anastasia, whose record includes

five arrests for murder, -was

described by O'Dwyer now a

colonel in the Army, as the man

took murder orders from

Ring Fugitive Trailed

To Derby as a Decoy

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Anastasia, Wanted by 0*0wye

b Huntedty Amen in Kidndping

Listed by the FBI as one of Brooklyn's most dangerDUS enemies, here's Albert (Big Al) Anastasia with just

a few of the hundreds of newspaper headlines that tell his

brushes with the law. Now he's Master Sgt Anastasia

fit the U. S. Army. A reporter saw him place a $600 bet

on a horse yesterday. " - ?

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i*v .big shot xacketeere and passed

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Continued front First Page

Brooklyn even while be has been

in the Army.

Anastasia's fellow soldiers state

the gangster constantly displays

thousands of dollars in large bills

to them.

At the race track, lie has been

reported betting as high as $1,000

on a single race.

SENT TO BROWNSVILLE.

Army records at Indiantown

Gap and at Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I., show that Anastasia

was drafted by a Brooklyn local

board. '. . .,

After going through basic training the gangster, officials at

Indiantown Gap said, was assigned to the Transportation

Corps. He was, for a while, detailed to Military Police duty in—

of all places—Brownsville, his old

- stamping grounds. '

His records In the Indiantown

Gap camp show only that he is a

sergeant. A captain, who spoke

to the New York Journal-American by telephone, expressed surprise that Anastasia was now a

master sergeant.

CAPTAIN EXPLAINS.

However, this captain revealed

the fact that Anastasia was the

"big gun" In Murder, Inc., was

not entirety a surprise to the

Army.

"There are, at times, men who

come into the Army with bad

civilian records," he said. "Somewhose testimony sent several «f

the Murder, Inc., big shots to the

electric chair, elicited evidence to

warrant the arrest for murder of

Anastasia. But the latter had

disappeared. •- <.:,i»-\

DEATH OF BELES/ .

Reles' death on Nov. 12,1941, Is

now called a suicide although it

first was calleti. an "attempt to

escape from police custody." He

died in a plunge from the sixth

floor of the Half Moon Hotel in

Coney Island, where he had been

kept under guard for .months

while acting as a State witness.

It was 14 months after police

started to search for him—early

in 1942—that Anastasia surrendered with the explanation he did

not know police were looking for

him. . : : :

LONG RECORD.

During each of his frequent

furloughs to New York, according

to detectives who cover Brownsville, and the race tracks. Big Al

Is usually to be seen in the1 company of .Brooklyn's and Manhattan's most notorious ex-convicts.

His criminal record on file at

Police Headquarters was never

consulted by military authorities,

it was said. •

The record shows: :

Police pointed put that Anastasia, actually never convicted of a

felony which would deprive him of

his civil rights, was not disqualified from serving in the Army.

According to Col. CDwyer, An

times local

that some

authorities discover

of these men are

wanted for crimes they had com* the kick-back racket, and took a

mitted. and the Army lets them go 1 similar amount from Brooklyn

without any hesitation.

"The Army does not want men

like that, but they can stay as

long as they behave themselves

or as long as no civilian author!*

ties want them."

The captain 6aid there had

•| been 6ome Inquiries about Anastasia, Including a visit to the camp

' by attaches of the Kings County

i District Attorney's office. However, no request lor.his return

'•' was made and no action was

I taken against Anastasia.

\ ARMY KEPT IN DARK.

• The Army, It was said, did not

;: ..know just bow bad Anastasia's

[• record was until Informed today

laundry workers.

DEATH GAVE HIM -BREAK'.

But for the death of key witnesses against him, Anastasia today would probably be as dead as

the clay pigeons he likeoTto shoot

as dead as those witnesses.

The first .murder "rap" against

him was In 1921 when he was arrested, tried and convicted of the

murder of Joseph Turello. His

partner in that crime, also convicted, was Giuseppe Horino.

They spent 18 mouths ,4n the

death house before the Court of

Appeals granted a new trial. But-1

of a deputy sheriff on

duty at the JaiiLL { {I* .

Gurino was also reveale\as the

owner of the Sunrise Garne at

2310 Atlantic ave., Brooklyn, ft

which Anastasia allegedly sent out

the cars that carried his hired

killers.

Flortno, Incidentally, is presumably just as free as Anastasia since:

witnesses in the murder of "Peter

Panto, Brooklyn labor leader, have

disappeared.

VICIOUS ALLIANCE. : -

The three friends formed an

unholy alliance that worked many

rackets in Brooklyn—especially, in

Brownsville and along the Brooklyn waterfront. . !"-• .

Strangely, Plorino and Anastasia preferred rifles to revolvers

for their strong arm work and

Anastasia developed his taste for

shooting clay pigeons and for

hunting up-State. ; . ' ?

One Of his underlings became

astasia, as king-pin Brooklyn mob- equally adept at the rifle. He was

ster, extorted more than $1,000 Anthony ^Romeo, alias Tony

weekly from dock workers through" Spring, who used to shootrUve

chickens along the waterfront to

impress, longshoremen victims of

his prowess. . .

Borneo was murdered and his

death, coupled with that of Reles,

removed the witnesses who could

have testified against

If was after these deaths'

astasia gave himself up.

become a military pol

by the N. Y. Journal-American*—L*~5w*»-'lJ*«rerJffeatiB '

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He is on furlough from

town Gap. - Sometimes,

pointed out. gangsters inpjLfg g W

soldiers and Join tte^*"o. P £ s

ply to get away,

who knew th-,

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A Sergeant's Credential^

This ds tie police record ©f Master Sergeant Alberto.

Murder, Inc., but now revealed W a Military Policeman in

March 17/1921, convicted of

the murder of George Turello,

and sentenced to die In the

electric chair on July S, 1921.,

D e c 6, 1921, new trial

ordered.

April 10,1922, murder indictment dismissed after three

State witnesses were slain.

Aug. 16, 1922, murder of

Carmello Ferraro, discharged.

i April 6, 1923,. felonious assault involving * shooting,

discharged.

\ June 6,1928, carrying a gun.

Aiiastasia, one-time boss of

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Sentenced to an indeterminate

term on Blackwell's Island.

Ang. _ 13, 1928, murder of

Carmine Cenatiempe. . Discharged, • ; ...'••• '. • "••-• -.' •

Aug. 17, 1932, Ice-pick murder of John Baxzano.. Dis-'

charged.

Aug. 19,1932 consorting with

known eliminate. Discharged.

Aug. 10, 1933, murder of

Joseph Santori, graver. Acquitted. (One defense witness'

was sentenced to Jail for perjury after this case.)

Oct. 21, 1936, consorting

with known criminals. Dismissed.

April 17, 1941,, Federal

charge of harboring Louis

(Lepke) Buchalter, underworld czar. No disposition.

May 10, 1942, inquiry from

V. S. Immigration ServiA for

data on *n»^tff"»B. them reported living in Utica, white a

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CorwerroJir eslimateg put the

number of ridim* of the countrywide actirities of Murder, Inc.,

at orer f.OOO dead and wounded.

Some dreamy-eyed statisticians

say the victims number as many

as f0,000. . . . Although

Lepke Buchalter, the quiet boss

of the criminal combination of

which Murder, Inc., teas a department, is dead, the remnants

of the gang are still in business,

still running policy rackets,

still making alliances with politicians, still preying on unions

and employers — and still knocking each other off, as this photograph of Neddie Herbert testifies. Herbert, a member of

Mickey Cohen's mob on the

Wesl Coast, was one of the many

casualties in the gang struggle to

rule America . . . It was a

struggle which began a century ago

and reached its climax in the

193O'». Although criminals had

been running loose for almost

century previously, it wasn't.

until the Bosenthal case in 1912

that the extent of the alliance

with public officials was discovered ... .
THE ROSENTHAL CASE

T"*HE shooting of Herman Rosenthal in 1912 jolted our country into

•"• the realization that it had a major crime problem on its hands.

Rosenthal, a well-known gambler, was suspected by many people of

attempting to organize all American crime into one giant combination.

Rosenthal made a sinister alliance with one section of the New York

City police department. Soon, so some reports had it, he hoped to

control the whole political body of the city.

Previous to the Rosenthal killing, gang wars and crime, so the

public supposed, were confined to odd or picturesque corners of Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, Mulberry Street, the waterfront. Organizations

such as thriv e Points Gang, th^6»phers, th^tack Hand (ot&Jnione

Sicilione), and tht^as House Gang, presumably restricted their activities only to fights with each other or attacks on poor Italian and Jewish

immigrants. But evidence produced during the trial of Rosenthal's

murderers proved that master criminals were working hand in hand

with politicians and police. It was obviously so in New York, and

probably so in other American cities.

The shooting of Rosenthal arose out of a series of vice investigaH

lions ordered by a crusading young politician. Rhinelander Waldo, who

had just been appointed Commissioner of the New York City Police

Department. Waldo established independent and supposedly noncorruptible squads of secret investigators to clean up the city. One of

these squads, charged with the suppression of gambling, was under

the direction of a well-known officer. Lieutenant Charlej^Ttecker, who

felt himself important enough to retain a personal publicity man. A

New York newspaper. The World, had also jumped into the fight

against crime, and daily listed places which the police had failed to

close. Among them was one on West 45th Street run by Herman

Rosenthal. Waldo cracked down on Becker, and Becker was forced

to raid Rosenlhai's house, where he arrested the gambler's 17-year-old

nephew and another man. ( C j

Six weeks later Rosenthal wrote an open letter to The Wor^

charging in detail that he had been double-crossed. He staled that

Lieutenant Becker had been his partner and received twenty percent

of the profits. Rosenthal added, "I was tipped off and was not at :„>

home. The officers who swore there had been gambling in the house

had never been inside the place. .. . I quite realize that I have signed

my own death warrant."

These events caused a tremendous sensation, to put it mildly, and

Rosenthal was called into the office of District Attorney Charles Whitman, where he repeated his charges in a conference several hoars long.

Commissioner Waldo was .now in the position of having to defend

Becker after having criticized him. Becker also issued a denial.

Rosenthal received secret messages' warning him to get out of town

while he had the chance. But he refused to leave. He doggedly waited

for the climax of the situation. On the evening of July 15, 1912, he

went to the Metropole, a cafe on 43rd Street off Broadway whei», he

spent much of his time. At about two o'clock in the morning, st .4 ^

able witnesses reported later, the sidewalk in front of the MetrojSw

was cleared by unidentified men in plain clothes. A gray touring car

drew up and five men leaped out. One of them entered the restaurant

and asked Rosenthal to come outside. The man, who presumably was

a friend of the gambler's, tipped his hat, and on this signal the other

four closed in and immediately shot Rosenthal to death.
RoaenlhaT* charge* against Becker and the police had Indeed sinned

hi* own death warrant. With the whole police force now suspect,

Dintrict Attorney Whitman called in the services of private investigators. Becker was transferred to a suburban station house. Both

police and underworld were in turmoil. *

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Becker was trrented for the murder of Roaenthal on July 29,1912, along with

Qyp the-BtooaT&airo FranW Mt y Louie amf^fhitey Louis. One of the prime

witnesses was Big JS^WI R who had testified ia *"Gmmd Jury invoKtljatfo' A

that he had supplied the itunmen to Becker through JacWlauu, aimther gamblei .1

Another man questioned in the case was JohnifjftVuiio, who Uter became Uw

head of Chicago bootlegging, and later a leader of the Murder, Inc. ring.
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In the top raw, rending from left to right, are (>yp the Blood,

Lefty Louie and Dago Frank. Whitey Ixmi* in in the flnt row

at the riffht. The pcirlti and the fifth man are unidentified. The

promcution milTered a blow when ZeliR wan killed by another

fmmhler on a trolley car on Second Avenue, hut nevertheleM it

wan aM« to pitMmt an impremive cane aRaimt Becker and the

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Despite the aid of powerful

friends, Becker (left) was

convicted alonx with hi* hired

killem. Ml men were electrocuted for the crime, but not

until the caae had been turned

Into a political football. The

caae had a double lemon —

it revealed to the American

public that the roots of crime

were deeper than anyone had

vuspouted •" and it showed

the criminal the immense

poMibiUUes of an alliance

with the crooked poliUdan.

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THE PALMY DAYS

TO7HEN Becker's killers were blasting Rosenlhal in front of the

" Metropole, a number of young punks laterAo become men of distinction in American crime—A^Capone, MeytrvLansky, Franks-Yale,

Buggsy^iegal, Lep^-fiuchalter, Frank^Costello and Gurrah Jake

"Shapiro—were just getting started in New York's lower East Side.

One of the leaders of this group was Johnny Torrio, a former

member of the old Five Points gang. Prohibition was only a few

months old when Torrio, who had. migrated to Chicago in 1918 discovered that there was big money in the now outlawed liquor business.

Torrio immediately began setting up an organization which would

eliminate competition and insure the sale of his liquor to Chicago

bartenders.

In 1920 Torrio made a hurried trip East to sign up another Five

Pointer, Al Capone. Capone's job was to organize strong arm squads.

By 1923 Capone had 700 men on his payroll. Two years later he

had control of many Chicago politicians and police. Capone owned

the suburb of Gcero completely, elected his own mayor, set up wide*

open gambling resorts and put bis own agents in the town's 161 speak*

easie*. By then Torrio had wisely stepped out of the scene.

Capone did not fain this control without a great deal of bloodshed.

There were several hundred killings in the Chicago area alone, and

hundreds more from coast to coast One of the eighty deaths laid to

the Capone gang included an assistant district attorney. There were •

no convictions and few arrests.

In New York gang rule fell roughly into two geographical divisions.

The East Side was mostly under the control of the Unione Sicilione.

Joe 'The Boss" was top man until shot down in 1931. Frank Costello

and Charles "Lucky" Luciano (then called SalvatorfciH-ucania) and

Frankie Yale worked closely with East Side combinations composed of

Little Augie Orgen, Lepke Buchalter, Gurrah Jake Shapiro, and Buggsy

Siegal. Luciano was known as a narcotics peddler and was reported to

have been financed by AmoldrRothstein, the gambler, who was also

believed to put up the money for numerous other criminal activities.

The West Side was run by Lari=^E»y and Owney*Madden. Madden,

although arrested 57 times, had served only one term—for murder.

Attempts to send him back to prison for violation of parole

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portedly blocked by the influence of Rothstein and Jimmy Hint^P '•

powerful Tammany Hall politician. ;

All the, gangs appreciated the. power of politicians, and worked

closely with them. Dutctr^SefeuUt, a prominent bootlegger and trigger

man, in fact was so much the politician's friend that he was commissioned a Deputy Sheriff of Cayuga County (New York) by a Republican Sheriff. Later Schultz was made a Deputy Sheriff of Bronx County

by a Democratic politician powerful in both the local and state machine.

Frank Costello, today one of the most powerful men in the underworld,

reportedly attended the 1952 Democratic Convention with Jimmy Mines.

Madden's lawyer (who kept him from prison on parole violations),

was Jimmy Walker, later Mayos of New York.

The East Side gangs were far ahead of the West Side in exploring

new possibilities of crime. Little Augie Orgen, Lepke Buchalter and

Jack Diamond had moved into industrial racketeering very early. Their

technique was simple: hire out to employers as strike break'j|^en

hire out to the unions to protect them against the employers^Poon

the gangsters had control of both management and labor in many 1B*

dustries. Anyone who complained was slugged or killed. Much of the

hatred and distrust of organized labor today is due to the activities ol

these East Side racketeers in unions. ' '

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Capone wa» a tough, ruthless hoodlum who controlled modi of the bootlegging

in America at the height of hii power. His weekly income was reported at six

million dollar*. Capone, unlike moat gangsters, wa» • publicity seeker and

allowed himself to be photographed freely.

Capone'* home In Palm Island, Miami Beach, Florida, set a

style of opulence and majesty that was the envy of movie stars

and newly-rich advertising executives, as well as other gangsters.

One story says that President Herbert Hoover, on a vacation in

' Florida, was so enraged at Capone's lavish manner of living that

he gave orders to the secret service to find some way of getting

rid of him ... . It took several years of hard work before

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 --»-««J irnm>ing the fat gangster

B so enraged av v^n|~.

ten to the secret service to find some way pi *<-**...,, .

nu u. It took several years erf hard work heforc .

the undercover men hit upon the plan of trapping the tat gangster ,

• ~ t«x evasion.

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on Income tax evasion.
Capone'a beadquarten formed a iharp oontrwt to bis home. For yean be lived

in Ibis shabby hotel in Cicero, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Here in these shabby

streets his gangsters slugged it out with other mobs for control of the mid-west

liquor business. One day, white Capone was eating in the Hawthorne Restaurant,

the Dion O'Banion gang rode up and down this street in eight big black touring

cars, raking the hotel with machine-gun (ire One O Banion man leaped front his

car and, kneeling on the sidewalk, coolly fired a stream of one hundred shots

towards the spot where Capone lay on his stomach.

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The climai of the Ranit wan came in 1929 with the

' • Saint ValentiiM** Da; MaMacre, in which aeven

, ' U'Bankm men were killed. Three of Capone'a KanR,

• "' '•'•'• dreawd aa poticemen, entered the Chicago garage

when the O'Banlom wen waiting lor a Joad of

M^acked liquor and dimmed them. TbeOBankm'e

wen lined up along the wall and then' shot down

with machine gun*. The kitten eaoapad. .
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In the E«tt tittle Angle Omen WM one of the leaden of New York

industrial racketeering. In 1927, as tbe result of an argument with

other members of his nan* on bow to handle a strike In tbe Painter's

Union, Onten was shot and killed in an East Side doorway, and his body*

guard, Jack "Legs" Diamond wounded. Gurrah Jake Shapiro, Hymie

Holts and Lnuta Bnchaus (later known as Lepke Bochaltw) wen

•meted but freed on lack of evidence. This was Lepke's first big bid

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wife, who bad laid datai to it, was working a rfrty-bottr

week in a Brooklyn laundry. Yale'a enterprise* were

ajMumed by Joe AdonU, another Unk>ne Sidtione member.

In the next few year* aaveral other Rang chief* received

even more elaborate fonerala, but Yale't remain* in the

memorie* of romanUcbta a* the greatett
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ArnbljMotiwtain, the "eiar of the underworld," was the central figure of one

of the most mysterious shootings in the animal* of underworld history. Rothttein,

seen here with lnei Norton with whom he dined the night be wan shot, wan found

doubled up in the service doorway of the Park Central Hotel on the night of

November •,1928, There wan a hugrbullel wound in his side. He lived for two

days, but died without naming the person who shot him. Like Rosenthal,

Rothstein was a gambler.f"He is generally believed to have bribed the Chicago

White Sox to throw the World Series of 1919 to the Cincinnati Reds. He was

suspected of .trying to organise all crime into a nation-wide syndicate. In the

few years 'before Rothntein's death there was a noticeable organization of all

criminal activities — bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, robbery and swindling.

Arrested criminals, no matter bow great or small, were always able to get bail.

The police suspected that the money came from Rothstein, although they wen

never able to prove it. George F. MacMaous, another gambler, was picked up

and questioned. MacManua, an intimate friend of Jimmy Hints, was reported

to have run a floating crap game at which Rothstein had lost large sums of

money. Other men to whom Rothstein was believed to owe money were also

.examined. A year later MacMamis was tried for killing Rothstein, but the case

was dismissed for lack of evidence, and still stands a* one of the great unsolved

mysteries.

The White Sox scandal was the deal for which Rothstein will

always remain infamous. In 1919, the Cincinnati Reds defeated

the Chicago While Sox in the World's Scrim. Later it developed

that a mysterious stranger had paid member* of the White Sox,

among them Shoeless Joe Jackson (below), to throw the game.

The price the ball players received was $100,000. Rolhstein's

nniw enme. up repeatedly during the investigation of the game,

and he wax rimmed to have won millions. It wasn't until police

examined his papers after his denth that his part in the deal was

confirmed.

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THE RACKET BUSTERS

TPHE violence and publicity-seeking of Capone was always a head-

•*• ache to calmer men like Frank Costello and Lcpke Buchalter who

believed in unity and discretion. A year after the Rothstein murder

Costello is reported to have called a convention of gang chiefs from

all over America to discuss the amalgamation of the gangs. The convention—like many business conventions—was held in Atlantic City.

Capone, the chief trouble maker, was persuaded to retire temporarily;

he surrendered on a gun charge in Philadelphia and spent a quiet year

in prison. Costello and the others set about establishing an empire

of crime. Plans were made for soothing the feelings of major rivals

and the elimination of trouble makers like Jack Diamond and Dutch

Schultz. An inner circle called the Big Mob was set up. The result

was the huge syndicate or combine which eventually became known as

Murder, Inc.

Such a gigantic combination of criminal talent could be fought

only by an equally gigantic combination of government forces. There

are only a few such forces possible in the United States. One is the

City of New York, another the Federal Government. Fortunately for

America, New York and the United States teamed up in 1931 more

or less by accident. The instrument chosen by Providence to fight the

Big Mob was Thomas E. Dewey, a juvenile district attorney.

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The crusading district attorney is now so much a part of the Amerf«

can legend in movies, radio and comic books that at this date it is

hard to tell whether Dewey invented the character or merely fitted

into a part already written.

Dewey was an extremely clever and capable organizer, a methodical investigator, supported by government agencies and a police force

which included many honest and skilled men.

In his first position as Chief Assistant United States Attorney,

which he accepted March 15, 1931, Dewey, only 28, was the administrative head of the largest prosecuting office in the Federal Government.

The Attorney General over Dewey was George Z. Medal ie, an experienced lawyer who had recently gone into the government. The judicial

district, largest of the 94 into which the country was divided, spread

from Manhattan to Albany, and included 6,000,000 people. Dewey

had beneath him the services of 60 young lawyers (some of whom

worked for as little as $1,500 a year) and the aid of the many federal

agencies—the Treasury Intelligence Unit, the Postal Inspection Service,

the Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Customs, the Narcotics Bureau and numerous others. He also had the aid of a staff of

New York detectives and many civil departments of the government

With all these helpers it was inevitable that he get some results in

his drives against the rackets, although in the past most of the men

in the same job had accomplished nothing. As one critic put it in

regard to Dewey's successes, "If you throw a bucket into the ocean

you can't help getting some water."

Dewey's activities ranged so far and-wide that he had often been

accused of shot-gun tactics—he fired away blindly in the hope of hitting something. He would take one or two or three people out of a

racket and leave the rest untouched. For example, he convicted WilfreorBrunder and Henr^Miro, both Harlem numbers kings, on income

tax evasion. Some time after the trial Dewey stated in a radio speech

that there were ten to fifteen more equally important policy bankers

in Harlem each pulling down one to two million dollars a year. Why

he did not clean up the rest of the bankers was not explained. Dewey

does, however, deserve much credit for initiating the counter-offensive

against the underworld.
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e Davit had been crossing

Dewey's path ever since 1931. In '

1937 Davis and eleven other* were

indicted by Dewey at the heirs to

Schults's one hundred million dot-

lar-a-year policy racket—probably

one of the greatest gambling syndi-

cates in the world. An eight-state

alarm was broadcast for Davis, his

girl friend Hope Dare, and his eo-

defendanta. One of them, Abraham

"Bo" Wdnberg, was believed to be

In the East River with his feet in a

block of cement. Bo's brother,

George, was reported to be with

Davis. Finally Dewey's men picked

np Davis, Miss Dare and Weinberg

In Philadelphia and the local poUoa

department took this photograph

of them in the line-up.

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Dewey persuaded1 Weinberg, Davis and most of the others

to testify against Hines although they had been warned

through the gangland grapevine that they would be rubbed

out. The first Mines brial was dismissed on a technicality.

White waiting for the second trial Weinberg, worried over

possible assassination if Hines should be freed, killed himself.
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For year* gangsters had terrorized New York'* garment

dinlrict. Many union* here were controlled by gangaters, and many employer* were forred into aiwocia

Uon* aim controlled by the name gangfttpni. Thui

ntmilarly threw ocid into v^uabln material or dp«Ut)j«(^

machinery. Anyone who complained wan either beaten

or killed. In 193? Dflwry Indicted Lepke and Gurrab

Jake Shapiro for.violation of the anti-trust law* in the

rabbit-fur dremmft induMry and also for violations of

the narcotics law, iiepke went into hiding.

Gurrah Jake, here being led into Federal Court, Manhattan, to face Dewty's charges, wanted to have the

prosecutor rubbed out. But Lepke was afraid of the

reaction. However, Lepke did give the order to his

men to get rid of witnesses — tend them out of town

or kill them.

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The drive against major criminals reached Frank

Costello. His (riot machine empire ranged from coast

to coast, although it wan not always safe in New ¥«(k

when fiery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia got to

work with a hammer. Although CosteHyti grot* from

the one-arm bandit* was reported at'$50,OO0,000 a •

'yclrf, 'pay-offs to. politicians end police, and incidental

expenses (such as replacing machines LnOuardia

smashed) cut profits to a mere $3,000,000 annually.

Costello was arrested by the G-men. This rare photo

shows him at the lime he was indicted on income tax

charges (since then he has been photographed more

often). Costello was never prosecuted, and until

recently remained such a shadowy — but powerful —

figure behind the scenes that even in the expose of

Murder, Inc., few newspapers dared mention his name.

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Wben Dewey and th« Federal Government struck at the Big Mob,

the gang* sought to remove all potential witnesses. Here police

examine the car in which "Pretty" Amber*, a minor gangster

whom the combine mistrusted, was found burned to death. Some

of the victim* were honest buMnesamen who resented gangster

Interference and complained to police. A typical case was that of

Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn clothing trucker, who was about to be

questioned by Dewey in his investigation of Lepke. Rouen was

pumped full of bullets one Sunday morning in 1936. At right his

widow weeps wben she learns of her husband's death. Although

most of the sixty killings at this time were of Lepke's associates

or potential witnesses against him, proof was still lacking that

he vat responsible.

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This photograph show* tapke immediately after the surrender—he hnd put on weight and wan wearing a mustache.

I>cpke WAS indicted on three charge*: ono of running a

dope ring, for which he received two yean and • fine of

$10,000; second, of violation nf the anti-trust laws, for

which he received fourteen years in Leavenw'orlh; nnri

third, for thirty-six extortion counts, in a New York City

court., for which he received thirty years to life as a fourth

offender.

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•urrendered, the FBI would begin a mardlem campaJni agaiiwt aD the

the Borough of]Brookl^. Wdfr WincheU (right)HSved M ht Z

for the siirrender O A t 24 1939 L k

g ^. Wdfr WincheU (right)HSved M tht InZmXy

for the siirrender. On Augast 24, 1939, Lepke gave hlmaeif ap to the columnirt

on a New York itnet corner WincheU brought Lepke over to a nearby oar

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MURDER, INC.

TB7IL.LIAM O'DWYER, a former policeman and judpre. was elected

** District Attorney of Brooklyn in November, 1939. He took office

January 1, 1940. and promptly began to clean house. What he found

hidden under the rug was as much of a surprise to him as to anyone else.

Shortly after his announcement of a war on BropMyn crime,

O'Dwyer received a secret visit from Abe "Kid TwUt^eles and a

lad named PrettjJfteTlne, both of whom demanded his protection with

. tears in their eyes. They insisted on telling the astonished District

Attorney that they had escaped from one of the biggest murder rings

in history.

By the time O'Dwyer had -stopped wielding the broom thrust into

his hands he was able to say that solutions to 57 murders had been

found.

Once the ring had been revealed newspapermen were quick to call

it "Murder, Inc.," although O'Dwyer, who as a policeman had learned

plenty about New York rackets and their functions, said "Murder

Incidental" would be a better name.

As O'Dwyer pointed out, murder was only a side line of the great

combination of criminals formed eleven years earlier. But it was

murder which made it famous- and interested the public. Murder was

committed only to make the combination run more smoothly. Probably no man, not even the mysterious leaders who still have so much

power today, knows the full extent of the Combination's other activities.

Like any well run business, the Combination had assigned certain

men to certain jobs. Slot machine experts handled slot machines only.

Killers did no other job except full — which they did ruthlessly and

fairly efficiently.

William Cage, for example, a typical victim, was anchored to a

slot machine pedestal, stabbed with an ice pick and dumped into Swan

Lake in the Catskills. Louis "Pretty" Amberg was shot in his car,

which was then soaked with gasoline. The girl friend of one of the

Brooklyn gangsters had the honor of lighting the flame which roasted

Pretty. Max Rubin, a Lepke aid, was shot in the back of the head by

his own friends because the boss thought he was too hot and might be

picked up by Dewey. However Rubin survived. Three years later,

brooding about the injustices he had received at the hands of his

friends, Rubin turned state's evidence for O'Dwyer. Eventually a lot

of - the Murder, Inc. people began to talk. Those who didn't begin

soon enough were the ones who got the chair or long prison sentences.

In such a totalitarian Combination,' it was, strangely enough, its

one democratic tendency which led to its downfall. Its chiefs believed

that a condemned man should have the right of a fair trial—before

being executed. When Pretty Levine, who had stolen a few cars for

use'in murder jobs, told his superiors that he was resigning'to give his

wife and child an honest background, he was allowed the usual trial.

Reles, who had formed an attachment for Levine, offered to defend

him. Kid Twist thought of himself as a great lawyer, having absorbed

a mouthful of legal phrases in the 42 times he was in court himself.

Somehow Reles pleaded so convincingly for Levine that the court

decided he was indiscreet and marked, him too for the ice-pick and

meat-cleaver treatment. With Murder1, Inc. troops hot after them,.

Reles and Levine threw themselves into O'Dwyer's arms.

In the next year, several hundred odd characters were picked up.

by the police in connection with Murder, Inc. Many of them bore odd

names like Max the Jerk, Pittsburgh Phil, Oscar the Poet; Blue Jaw

Magoon and Dasher Abbandando. An entomological and etymological

key to the personality of the combine as a whole was furnished by

the names of Buggsy Siegal, Buggsy Goldstein and Charlie The Bug"

Workman.

Some of these characters received the" death penalty for their crimes,

some long prison sentences—and some are still loose, ready with ice

pick and meat cleaver to carry on when Happy Maione and Kid Twist

Reles left off. ' ;

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e Rudnick was typical of the hundreds of

Murder, Inc. victims deposited in Abandoned ctra

or trash pits from coast to const. Rudnick, a dope

fiend and stool pigeon, was chopped up quite a fi w

times with a meat cleaver and ice pick after a wMil

flight for life through Brooklyn streets. He win

then trussed up so that his death struggles pulled

the rope tighter around his neck.

On February 2, 1940, tHstrict Attorney O'Dwyer

announced that Abe Rdes (left) and Martin

(Buggsy) Goldstein (right), both 33, had been in-

inclicted for first degree murder in the street-corner

killing of Alec "Red" Alpert, a 19-year-old gangster

who had been shot in the back six years previously,

while walking on Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn.

Roles and Goldstein, the startled DA revealed, were

valued lieutenants in a huge murder and crime ring

in Brooklyn. They were said to be the Brooklyn

reprcsentat'ves of Luciano, and controlled the area

in connection with the Maktne brothers, Happy and

Duke. Reles had been arrested forty-two times in

1933, including five homicide charges. He had been

convicted ten times but never for a major crime.

Goldstein, who had been arrested thirty-four times

(including four homicide charges) was rated as

"Public enemy number six." Buggsy was very

annoyed at this. "I should have had a higher

number," he said angrily, "because I'm certainly

working up to it." In the next few days O'Dwyer's

men also picked up Anthony "The Duke" Malfetore,

Happy Maione, Harry "Pittsburgh" Phil Strauss,

Frank "The Dasher" Abbandando, Laxunis Black,

Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon, Louis Capone,

Mendy Weiss and ma/ry others too numerous to

mention.

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The body of Willie Shnpiro wan among a doiten or m «xhuim4

an the Investigation programed. Shapiro, no O'Dwyer learned,

had been buried alive in July, 19.14, in a Rand pit in Brooklyn

by Happy M alone, Abe RHea, and Danhir Abbandnnilo, under

the direction of lHltahurgh Phil Stratum. Willie Shnpiro, ind

hi* brother* Irving and Meyer (who were also killed by Uw

gang) had been business competitors.

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Another cane readied by the police wan that of Irving "PuRiry" Feiiwtein, murdered in the 1930V Thin New York Daily New photograph shows a detective

examining Puggy's charred corpse. Goldstein and Straum wore indirted for the

. murder on the testimony of Rctes, Tannenbaum and Seymour Magoon.

Aa the Investigation widened its scope, numerous out-of-town

murders were aim discovered. One of many in upstate New York

was that of Irving Ashkenaa, a Catakill taxi driver who waa

competing with some friends of the Brooklyn gangsters, Ashkenas

was ice-picked to death, after which sixteen bullet* were fired

into his body. Altie Tannenbaum was among those indicted in

the killing. This Daily New* photo reveals the scene faced by

patrons of Paramount Manor when they came out for their

morning constitutional. • .

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One of the (Treat mysteries of the^A's was aim cleared up with

\» arrant of Choi-lie "The BuRJjfrforkmnn. Thr BUR nnd Mendy

Weiim were revealed to have done the Dutch Schullr. jnl>, along

with a man named Piggy, who got cold fret at the lust minute.

The BUR Rot the Dutchman, liut Wrim claimed top honors. Both

men started quarrelling over the kill until Lepke coldly warned

them to be quiet

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Pittsburgh PhlnNrraM, Indicted with Goldstein for the Feinsteln murder, grew a

beard in an attempt to prevent identification by witnesses. It wax revealed that

Puggy had double-crossed a Brooklyn labor leader and friend of the syndicate.

Puggy was strangled in the home of Abe Reles before bring burned. An the case

unrolled, it was determined that Pittsburgh Phil was straw boss in charge of

murders. O'Dwyer finally obtained a court order to take Strauss to the barber.

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was also held as a material witness. Members of the gang still

at large were trying to kill her

before she oould testify. Bail was

furnished for several other important witnesses — who Immediately disappeared — before"

waslearned that the gang merely

wanted to rub them oat However, most of the witnesses w««

picked up safely.

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dando and Hnpp'NMaione calmly listen to evidence

against them for the murder of George Rudnick. Strauss, their

boss, had turned state's evidence against them in an attempt to

save his own life. The story unfolded in court that the Combination had awarded them a contract to kill Rudnick, who was

suspected of being a stool pigeon. Rudnick nensed that he had

been marked for death and rrifuMxl to leave his home. One night,

M aione's family wan gathered at the deathbed of MR grandmother.

Happy was lying in wait ouUide of Rudnirk's houne. Rudnick

crept out in an attempt to escape through the shadows. Happy,

along with Pittsburgh Phil and the Dasher, chased him by car

through the streets of Brooklyn. Finally Rodnfck was cornered,

pulled into their ear, and stabbed with an ioefick. Strauss

finished Urn with a meat cleaver. Happy's lawyers put fourteen

of his relatives on the stand to testify that he had been at home

at the death-watch, but Burton Turkus, the assistant D. A.,

brought forth the mortician and his helpers to prove that Happy

was not,in the grandmother's bouse at the time. Maione and

Abbandandq'were convicted of murder and received the chair.

Strauss, with' twenty-seven other killings charged against him,

couldn't beat all the rape, and waa found guilty in the Puggy

Feinstein<

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VtncvBvrino, a minor Murder, I no. trooper, was at first assigned to

rubbing out witnesses again.t Slraun. and the others. But the

police put out a call for Gurino, and the gang turned on him, trying

to nilence him before he could talk. Gurino, paralysed by fcar, went

into a church on Twenty-third Street, New York, where he made

. mch a racket .creaming for sanctuary that the paator called the

poHoe. This Daily New$ photo show, that it took four patrolmen

to carry *h" blubbering fat man into the station bowe. Guirno

confessed to three murder* and implicated himself in four others.

It wasn't long before Lepk* was

linked to the activities of Murder, Inc. O'Dwyer borrowed

Lepke from the Federal government, which at that lime had

him on a two-year sentence for

hi* dope activities, to try him

for the murder of Joseph Rosen.

The understanding beween

O'Dwyer and the United States

Attorney was that if Lepke was

not convicted of first-degree

murder, he was to be returned.

Louis Capone and Mendy Weiss

were also indicted In the Rosen

murder. Several other murder

indictments were also obtained

against Lepke.
One of the prime witnesses against I^epke wan Abe III-IPS (below), hid former

associate and trusted confidant. Allie Tannonlwum (who wan also involved in

the murder of Irving AithkenaR) tttrtifird that Lepke hml ordered the killinR of

Rosen, and that Mendy Weiss had boasted of the murder, and that Pittsburgh

Phil Strauss had taken unnecessary pot shota at the body. Max Rubin, another

Lepke aide, whose death Lepke had ordered, was another important witness

against the gang chief.' O'Dwyer kept all of his witnesses hidden away to safeguard them against assassination. Relcs was confined in the HHU Moon Hotel

(right) in Coney Island.

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BUSINESS AS USUAL

T EPKE, the old master, is dead, but crime in America still goes on.

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 Maybe some of the sureness is tost—the bungled shooting of

Mickey Cohen in Hollywood indicates that today's killers lack the red

thumb of Frankie Yale or Pittsburgh Phil Strauss—but the boys still

get an "A" for effort.

Costello is no longer the unknown he was for so many yean. In

1944 he carelessly left two envelopes containing 127,200 in a New

York taxi. The taxi driver turned the money over to the police. That

night a lawyer put in a claim for the money on behalf of an unknown

client. The client was forced to appear in person, according to New

York City lost and found regulations, and Costello suddenly found

himself in the spotlight he had been avoiding for years.

According to a state law passed the previous year, claimants to lost

property had to prove a clear and legal title to it. Costello had several

different versions to as to why he had the money. One was that several

debts owed him had all come in at once—a story which didn't impress

the police at all; another yarn was that pdrt of it was given him by

Dandy PhiKKastel, his partner who ran his gambling enterprises in

Louisiana, and that the remainder was lent him by his brother-in-law,

who also worked in his slot-machine business. The Federal Government

put In a tax claim on the money, and after Costello had given the cab

driver a reward, paid his taxes and the court charges, he had only

$121.65.

The same year New York District Attorney Frank Hogan Issued this

statement on Costello: ". . . Costello, racketeer and gangster, is notorious throughout the country. He has been for years an associate of

Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano, Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, Jacob 'Gurrah*

Shapiro, Abe 'Longie' Zwillman, Meyer Lansky of the 'Bugs-Meyer*

tnob, Joseph Doto, alias Joe Adonis, leader of the Brooklyn under*

world, and other notorious gangsters and gunmen. At the present time

Costello is on the black list of a federal agency as one who finances

illicit narcotic transactions."

Costello's criminal history goes back quite a few years. It was

documented in detail by Herbert Asbury in Collier's two years ago in

a series of articles called "America's No. 1 Mystery Man," which

leave no doubt as to Costello's power in American crime. Asbury has

never been sued for libel or asked to make a retraction by Costello,

and the articles were reprinted this year in the New York Public Guardian, so it must be assumed that Costello is as powerful as charged.

Asbury listed Costello's gambling enterprises, and outlined his

liquor dealings and his financial transactions, few of which can be

condoned, even in a society like ours which respects sharp operators.

Most of Costello's business and social companions have equally shady

records.

It is believed that there is little organized crime in this country

which is not controlled by Costello and the remaining members of the

Big Mob. If the Big Mob does not control a racket outright, it grants'

a franchise, much as an automobile company grants one to a dealer,

insuring a clear field in a certain area.

While industrial racketeering has been cut down due to the early

efforts of Dewey, O'Dwyer and others, and also to the hard work of

honest employers and union leaders, other rackets like slot-machines,

numbers, book-making, and dope are still good money makers. Water*

front crime in New York and other ports is reportedly' worth millions

to the gangs. Malcom Johnson of the New York Sun won a Pulitzer

prize this year for his expose of waterfront rackets. Although Johnson

named the men who stole an estimated $50,000,000 a year in cargoes

alone, as well as those who preyed on stevedores and shippers, no

action has been taken—cither in libel against Johnson, or in arrest of

the criminals by police.

Similar situations exist throughout the country, and it looks as if

the Big Mob is still in business.
ID 1946 Lucky Ludano was pardoned after having aerved eleven

years of his sentence for prostitution and deported to Italy. Lucky,

according to the story put out in explanation of bis release, had

rendered invaluable service to the United States in the invasion

of Sicily In 1943. Lucky had left Sidly at the age of seven, and

bow the information be bad gathered in his childhood hdped our

forces was never adequately explained. However, the fine Italian

hand of Frank Cosldlo showed itself behind the pardon. Costello

had powerful connections in Tammany Hall, and it was presumably

through these that he persuaded the administration to pardon

Lucky. This picture is further evidence of Costello's powrr.

When Ludano sailed, Costdlo saw him oft*. The man in the civilian

clothes is a Daily Neum reporter who is bdng ejected from the

sailing by a Coast Guardsman — on the orders of Frank Costdlo.

Despite daima of being persecuted by the Italian government f'& guy don't

know what his rights an here!") Luciano is leading a remarkably lush life in

exile. He made an attempt to get back into the United States, but was halted

at Cuba. Rumor has it that his relative* met him there with a suitcase containing

$2,000,000, just in case living was expensive in Italy. This summer the Italian

government decided Lucky was a trouble maker and deported him to his home

town in Sidly. Several dope rings have been uncovered in this country with

reported links to Lucky. But Lucky swears he's going straight.
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The •hooting of Mickey Cohen and three henchmen

aa they left a Hoflywood restaurant one evening

this wiinnwr repeata the pattern of gang war of the

1920'aand'SOV Cohen, whoee Beverly Hula hooM

la protected by radar, atated at flrrt he "waa completely in the dark," later aaid be knew who ahot

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TO

FROM :

SUBJECT:

Mr. DeLoach DATE: 12/21/60

Trotter J -

W.C. Sullivan .

Tele. Room —

Ingrain

Gandy .

RECORD BY WALTER WINCHELL .

ON LOUIS BUCHALTER'S SURRENDER

TO THE DIRECTOR

In my memorandum to you of 11/16/60, it was

recommended that the Director indicate a time to listen to the

recording of Walter Winchell narrating the story "rM'TfiPr, frfr-,

and Buchalter's surrender to the Director. The Director listened

to this recording on 11/17/60.

Assistant Director Malone has received a copy of

the dust jacket to be used with the published record. It is attached.

The dust jacket makes no mention of the Director or the FBI. It

consists of an account of the scoops and other successes of Walter

Winchell. The dust jacket was badly damaged in transit.

RECOMMENDATION:

For information.

Enclosure

1 - Mr. DeLoach

1 - Mr. Malone

0

i

^CLOSURE ATTACHE^

5 1 DEC 2 91960^,
STEREOPHONIC

Thii Ullrd High Fit

WALTER

WINCHELL

NARRATES THE STORY OF MURDER, INC.

WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY T.F.OGAL AND GEORGE GREELEY

ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY GEORGE GREELEY

THIS IS THE LOW DOWN, THE INSIDE STORY OF THE

SURRENDER IN 1939 OF LEPKE BUCHALTER,

PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 AND HEAD OF MURDER, INC.

Walter Winchell has had as much of an impact on 20th Century journalism as Benjamin Franklin had on the 18th. No less an

authority than H. L. Mencken ascribed to

Walter Winchell a first position as a great

promulgator of the American language, as

distinct from the Queen's English.

Capturing and transmitting the tempo

of the great metropolis of New York was

not an acquired characteristic: he was

born to, of and in it. The pulse beat of the

city is as natural to him as the pulse beat

of his heart.

Winchell gained important recognition

in vaudeville (1910 to 1920) as both singer

and dancer. But his heart was so much in

reporting that he typed his own newspaper.

a mere note-sheet of the goings on in his

immediate circle. When the opportunity

opened on the old Vaudeville News, he hesitated not one second in accepting a job

which paid a until of his salary as a hoofer.

But Winchell's style—so rapid he invented telescoping of words—expressed

the rhythm of the Roaring Twenties — at

the center of the hurricane, Broadway. The

Eve'g Graphic headlined him as the man

who wouldn't pull a comma or a punch. WR.

Hearst, whose motto was: "There is no

substitute for circulation," watched Winchell grow from tens of thousands to the

millions, after which he decided there was

no substitute for Winchell. Winchell went to

the .V. Y. Mirror and is syndicated throughout the world by King Features, the Hearst

feature orginization.

Mr. Hearst was not the only one who appreciated vast circulation. When President

F.D.R. heard that Winchell, by column and

radio reached 89'' of the American population (between Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday noon alone) he was incredulous. When

he was told that Winchell was his most

ardent supporter, he was delighted. As a

result, the warm trust and friendship between the two men developed to a point

where Cabinet officers found it advisable

to^read Winchell's column in order to ascertain what would be the next step of the

President. At least one high Administration official read of his "resignation" there.

Prime Ministers, Defense Secretaries, Premiers and the ordinary man in the street

communicated with him to the extent of

18.000 letters a month.

The fact is that in the expose of the Nazi

conspiracy, the preparation of the nation

for war and the election of FDR for a third

term, eminent historians accord to Winchell the accola'

ident, the natic

of the U.S. fro

be as impossib!

tory of the Li

Greeley.

There are h

magnitude—fr

the atomic bon

and the surrem

of the most dra

of Vincent Coll

the streets at 8

dateline, predic

be dead in the r.

little over five h

now what he *

eager reporter

dweller on past

Walter says

signment and t

ever covered w

Good Will Toui

House Press coi

itzer Prize wii

Salisbury of th<

Stars And Sfri;

a good reporter

is high praise.

Only once d

shoulder, and t

friend, Damon 1

chell vowed a

and over sixtee

in from the Am

With typical W

report, from it

one penny of co

penses of any k

Winchell's pri

the 20th Centur

The fact is, ho'

be unable to exp

out understand!

WALTER WINCHELL narrate. 'THE UNTOUCHABLES'

A Oesilu r*roducth..t for the ABC Television «**i*«i»«

"THE UNTOUCHABLE

Now available in paperback ed

Mfg. for Kee'ou Corp. LINER NOTES BY ERNEST CfXEO PRESIDENT , BELL SYNDICATE AND NORTH AMERi

GEORGE GREELEY APPEARS IN THIS ALBUM C<

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from tape to disc. The superior performance of the Fairchild system insure-, the transfer of the full frequency

and dynamic range as well as ni«tintair.i.ig **vcl'ent channel separation. ,
This Ulti

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, cottfed end ptom

>uld be reproduced on a i-cicophor

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DIP

TER

CHELL

STORY OF MURDER, INC.

1P0SED BY T.F.OGAL AND GEORGE GREELEY

1 GEORGE GREELEY

VIM, THE INSIDE STORY OF THE

DF LEPKE BUCHALTER,

AND HEAD OF MURDER, INC.

n of an im-

m as Ben-

Xo less an

scribed to

as a great

iguage, as

ih.

the tempo

Vork was

:; he was

*at of the

oulse beat

^cognition

Mh singer

3 much in

:ewspaper.

a mere note-sheet of the goings on in his

immediate circle. When the opportunity

opened on the old Vaudeville N'ews, he hesi-

tated not one second in accepting a job

which paid a -^nth 01" his salary as a hoofer.

But Winchell's style—so rapid he in-

vented telescoping of words —expressed

the rhythm of the Roaring Twenties — at

the center of the hurricane. Broadway. The

Eve'g Graphic headlined him as the man

who wouldn't pull a comma or a punch. W.R.

Hearst, whose motto was: "There is no

substitute for circulation" watched Win-

chell grow from tens of thousands to the

millions, after which he decided there was

no substitute for Winchell. Winchell went to

the .V. }' Minor and is syndicated through-

out the world by King Features, the Hearst

feature orginization.

Mr. Hearst was not the only one who ap-

preciated vast circulation. When President

F.D.R. heard that Winchell, by column and

radio reached 89' ' of the American popula-

tion (between Sunday at 9 p.m. and Mon-

day noon alone) he was incredulous. When

he was told that Winchell was his most

ardent supporter, he was delighted. As a

result, the warm trust and friendship be-

tween the two men developed to a point

where Cabinet officers found it advisable

to^read Winchell's column in order to ascer-

tain what would be the next step of the

President. At least one high Administra-

tion official read of his "resignation" there.

Prime Ministers, Defense Secretaries, Pre-

miers and the ordinary man in the street

communicated with him to the extent of

18,000 letters a month.

The fact is that in the expose of the Nazi

conspiracy, the preparation of the nation

for war and the election of FDR for a third

term, eminent historians accord to Win-

chell the accolade of being, next to the Pres-

ident, the nation's vrime mover. A history

of the U.S. from the 20s to the 60s would

be as impossible wi hout Winchell as a his-

tory of the Lincoli era without Horace

Greeley.

There are hundieds of scoops of first

magnitude —from

 rDR'

s third term and

the atomic bomb t< the Russian Spy case

and the surrender cf Lepke Buchalter. One

of the most dramatic was the assassination

of Vincent Coll. Winchell had a column on

the streets at 8:30 ;<.m. with the next day's

dateline, predicting that Vincent Coll would

be dead in the moriing. and at 1:15 a.m.. a

little over five hours later, he was. But he is

now what he was in the beginning: An

eager reporter of tomorrow's news, not a

dweller on past glo ies.

Walter says tha his most exciting as-

signment and the uost thrilling story he

ever covered was 'resident Eisenhower's

Good Will Tour o< the Far East. White

House Press correspondents, including Pul-

itzer Prize winnii.fr journalist Harrison

Salisbury of the .NVic York Times, told the

Stnrs And Stripe' at Seoul. Korea: "H<? is

a good reporter!' To » newspaper man this

is high praise.

Only once die. ? look back over his

shoulder, and that v.as when his devoted

friend. Damon Rur.yon, died of cancer. Win-

chell vowed a finish-fight on the disease,

and over sixteen Trillion dollars has flowed

in from the American public in his support.

With typical Wincreii orevity, the annual

report, from its i ception, states: "Not

one penny of conti f jutions deducted for ex-

penses of any kin^.

Winchell's primary objective is to explain

the 2f>th Centurj t • his millions of readers.

The fact is, howe fr, that historians will

be unable to exp! -.ir. the 20th Century with-

out understanding Winchell.

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the ABC ICWoJaM) tt^imm..U

'THE UNTOUCHABLES*.nati.Hu.ite.Mii.,

Now available in paperback editin at all newsstands

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GEORCE GREELEY APPEARS IN THIS ALBUM COURTESY WARNFR BROS. RECORDS

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UNITED STATES

Memorandum

TO

FROM

SUBJECT

Mr. DeLoach DATE: 11-16-60

RECORJDJBX

ON SURRENDER

McGuire .

Rosen .

Tamm .

Trotter ^

W.C. Sullivan)

Tele. Room 1

Ingram .

Gandy

TO THE DIRECTOR

word of

^ . While in Los Angeles in September this year, Mr. Malone received'an

^ Advance copy of this record which was produced by Louis Prima and released by Dot

^ Records. It is a 12 inch, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) record. It is recorded on both

sides and requires approximately 27 minutes to play.

The recording is narrated in Winchell1 s dramatic, staccato st$e and

deals with the preliminary negotiations made by Winchell with members of

Incorporated" mob, Buchalter* s surrender to the Director and the aftermath.

^ The details of the preliminary negotiations are, of course, known only U

' ^ \ Winchell and members of the mob who contacted him. Therefore, this is not verified

I by Bureau records. '

In setting the scene in order to dramatize the situation, it is believed

I that Mr. Winchell has taken liberties in describing activities of the FBI. He makes

statements to the effect that the FBI harassed individuals who patronized factories

owned by members of Murder, Incorporated. Specifically, he states that G-Men

had confronted businessmen in the halls of some of these legitimate factories askin

why these men were there and did they not know that the company was run by mem

of Murder, Incorporated.

"^IDRE TOnchell intimately describes conversations between himself and the

Director and alleges that the Director embarrassed him before many patrons of the

Stork Club by bawling him out in a loud voice and continually referring to members

of Murder, Incorporated, as "your friends."

Toward the conclusion of the first side of the record, Mr. Winchell

states that the FBI was seeking Buchalter for narcotics violation and being a fugitive

iromJusUce. ' &

The second side of the record concerns a very • ill amallU UebciTptioi

the actual surrender of Buchalter and the accompanying event invcdying "Wj^chell,

Mr. Hoover, Buchalter and Buchalter* s associates. The recfitduconcmdes with the

statement that Buch^erjwus executed in Sing Sing Prison at 11*16 n. m. on March 4,
t ^

to DeLoach Memorandum

eT Record By Walter Winchell

Generally, the recording is factual. A copy of the Interesting Case

write-up involving Buchalter is attached, should the Director desire to refer to it.

OBSERVATIONS:

It is believed the Director would want to personally hear this record

in view of comments Mr. Winchell makes concerning conversation between him

and the Director; actions attributed to Mr. Hoover by Mr. Winchell; and because,

of the dramatic manner in which this historic surrender* is described. Mr. Winchell

also explains some attempts to make political "hay" out of this situation. The

I latter part of the recording gives the impression that the listener should have some

I sympathy for Buchalter.

Mr. Hoover is portrayed throughout as a man of action who is not

\ influenced by the prominence of hoodlums or the friendship of Winchell in the discharge

I of his responsibilities.'

AVAILABILITY OF RECORDING EQUIPMENT:

Appropriate equipment for the Director's use in listening to the record

can be brought to the Director's Office at any time he desires.

RECOMMENDATION:

It is recommended that the Director indicate a time most suitable

for him to listen to the recording.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

Tolson .

Mohr _

TO : Mr. Mohr DATE: 11/16/60

FROM : J. F. Malfflfr^

Q

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SUBJECT: MURDER INCORPORATED

A

C >> ^ You will recall that when I was

Los Angeles in September I met Mr. Rani

_Records, Jncprpprated. He told me abouf a

Parsons

Belmont

Callahan

DeLoach .

Malone -

McGuire ——

Rosen ..rf*—

Tarom i*^——

Trotter ~~

W.C. Sullivan .

Tele. Room

Ingram

Gandy

edding in

President of Dot

recorded on the surrender of Lepke (Louis^Buchalte^Tto

and the Director. Wood stated that the record was narrated ^Walter

Winchell. He stated that it mentions the Director throughout. I asked

him about the possibilities of obtaining an advance copy of the record,

and he said he felt it could be arranged upon completion of the record.

I have followed this matter closely with Mr. Wood personally

and SAC Simon at the Los Angeles Office. The release of the record

had been delayed because Louis Prima, who is producing the record,

ordered some changes after the first run.

I have now received a copy of the recording and have played

lit through. It runs 15 minutes a side, and I feel certain the Director will

I find it very interesting. I do not know enough about the facts of the

'Lepke surrender to comment upon the authenticity of WinchelFs comments.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the record be submitted to the Director so that he can

listen. I have labeled the starting side No. 1.

^*r

1 - Mr. DeLoach

63DEC281960
*O*M MO. IO

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

A Memorandum

TO : Mr. Mohr

FROM : c . D. DeLoach

SUBJECT: WALTER WINCHELL

DATE: May 16, 1962

^^^A t 7:10 p. m., 5-15-62, SAC Simon of Los Angeles called and

talked to^m|i n my office. He said he had just arrived in the office and

I ASAC Onsgard had just taken a lengthy telephone call from Walter Winchell.

Winchell said he tried to get fhold of the Director and Mr. Tolson

but they were out; that he had a "message" for them. Mr. Simon said Winchell was

very rambling and was referring to a column, 5-15-62, by Mike Connely, in the

.. "Hollywood Reporter," that makes reference to Winchell's record entitled,

O"Murder Incorporated," which was supposed to have been released by Dot records.

Connely makes the crack something to the effect that Louie Prfema had gotten the

record killed off. Winchell said he had been in touch with Randy Wood, who is

President of Dot records, and wanted to know if he could have the record back

he could do his own producing, and wanted to know if Mr. Hoover objected to the

record. Winchell told Wood that if Mr. Hoover objected the whole thing would

forgotten.

Simon said Winchell really did not make sense and that he talked

about leaks of information in his column and if Onsgard wanted to send an FBI man

around he Jeould.

i Winchell said in closing, "Mickey Cohen sends love to all." When

lOnsgard did not kugh at this remark Winchell accused him as not having a sense of

qhumor. Winchell ended the conversation by saying, "Happy Mother's Day.

RECOMMENDATION:

We are familiar with Winchell's record

it are being secured and you will be further advised. 9

oranda carfcerning

J' V-L;

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r.i .ADDENDUM: (ECfcgeg) 5-16-62

Attached is Tt "background memorandum dated

' J.) v .11-16-60 whiferein it is noted that the Director hear<

1 - Telephone RQQm}~>/s\p%f}j this record at!0;45 a.m., 11-17-60.

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DATE:

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'MURDER INCORPORATED

WALTER WINCHELL

Bulky Exhibit File Number: 62-57444-49

We are in the process of reviewing all bulky exhibits in order

that we may dispose of those which serve no further purpose. Inasmuch

as many of the bulky exhibits pertain to inactive cases and are occupying

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R»»o-k»: Enclosed for Saa Diego Is a copy of a letter from

captioaed Individual addressed to the Director and a copy

of a letter be addressed to the Attorney General. There Is

no record of him in Bufiles, The Abe Reles he mentions

may be Identical to a -witness In a New York murder case

who either jumped, fell or was pushed from a hotel window

while being guarded by the New York Police Department in

1941.

Copies of the enclosed letters have been furnished

to U. S. Secret Serrtce. You should Immediately furnish

copies to U. S. Secret Service locally and to appropriate

H) local Mthorttie*

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to United States Secret Service, San Diego, California;

the Chief of Police, San Diego^ California, Police Department

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After Capone bad served his time in Philadelphia he returned

to the luxuries of his Florida estate. Here he is fishing (for the

benefit of photographers) from the stern of his yacht. Thin life '

of ease didn't last long. The Federal Government hauled him

in for an income tax trial, which be lost. The presiding judge is

reported to have been so infuriated at rumors that Scarface Al

bad the court fixed for acquittal that be gave Capone the maximum sentence possible. Capone was sent to AlcaUas . . . >

Meanwhile, in the Manhattan District, Assistant Federal

Attorney Dewey was after other big-shot criminab . . . . '

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John Tbotnajrpinmond, 36, was in the unenviable position of being hunted by

both the Big Moll and the Federal Government. Diamond, a survivor of better«,

days an far as gangland was concerned, was an expert assassin. He was commonly

believed to bo responsible for placing Harry Wwtone, a business competitor, in

a cement mixer one night at Kingston, New York. Western became part of an

Empire State highway. Diamond was Dewey's first important quarry. A Federal

jury in New York City found Diamond guilty on the charge of running a still —

this in the period when practically every male American had one in his bath tub.

It was Diamond's first conviction in twenty-live arrests, but Diamond never

served his term. While appealing it he got into several more scrnpes with the

law (one of which was for torturing a Cataklll farmer by burning the soles of hit

mably by gunmen from the Combination.

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first conviction in twenty-live arr ,

served his term. While appealing it he got into several more scrnpes with the

law (one of which was for torturing a Cataklll farmer by burning the soles of hit

f ) d was shot up a few times, presumably by gunmen from the Combination.

law (one of which was for tort

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Diamond was finally killed in December, 1931, in Albany after

celebrating another escape from the law. He bad been drinking in

• speakeasy with his wife, left her to visit Kiki Roberts, bis showgirl

sweetheart, then went home to his apartment, where he was riddled

with bulleta by two men, who got away successfully. One of- the

murderers was "Bo" Weinberg, who was later tossed into the East

River with his feet in a barrel of cement.

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WaxeySGordon, a leading beer baron, came next on Dewey's list of mnjor

oriminai^ In Ihf two year* Dewey was aflrr Gordon, the RanRater'B profit from

hi* income was $4,500,000, on which he paid a tax of $2,010. Gordon had accounts

in 200 banks. Sixteen murders of enemies and potential witnesses were credited

to his men during this period. Here Gordon nervously bites his lip after he was

arrested In his hideaway in Sullivan County. Dewey recorded over 100,000

phone calls and examined 1,000 witnesses to Rather his evidence. Gordon's

ten-year term is said to have saved his life. He is believed to have been marked

for death by the Big Mob.

Dewey was also after DutciuchutU (born ArthflNgleftmheiBKr), one of the most

scurrilous characters in the history of crime. ScHuuVs income during the period

of Dewey's investigation was $481,000, on which be had paid no taxes. He also

bad $856,000 in various banks. SchulU, who could recognite danger when he

saw it, holed up outside of Dqwey't territory. However, be was aoon hauled into

a Federal court in upstate New York to face trial on his tax problems. Here

SchulU, at right, confers with his lawyers while the jury ponders his case. He

was acquitted. ' .-

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•4 oat of town in a harry when he learned that be nan DCCTI pimm . . _ ^

L«* Dewey'aliit. SdtolU't aaaodatet were atoo np for inrcBtiRatloo by Dewej. In

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SchulU returned to the New York area. Shortly afterwards he was arrested

by the Newark police and released on bail. A month later he wan silting in

this corner of a Newark saloon with two aides. Three men entered, riddled

bim and his guard* with bullets. At tbe same time two other Srhultz men

were fcriounly wounded by other gunmen in a New York barber shop.

SchulU, with life ebbing fast, was rushed to a hospital.

Son be was nfe outride of Dewey'a domain, ScbulU let himself be arrested ia

upsUte New York^o be tried on a Federal inoome tax charge. Hen SchulU and

his lawyer, DixijpDavfs, confer during the trial. SchulU was afraid that Dewey's

bard-won evidence against him might be turned over to the other prosecutor. How*

ever, the verdict waa not guilty. Mayor LaGuardia warned ScbulU to stay out of

New York. Now officially honest, SchulU replied, "I'll be back in town tomorrow."

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Dntch SdralU take* a la«t look at Wnwetf. la a moment of oon>

aeioaMieM he oried oat at photographers who were In the room, "Why

.. are you taking my picture? You're gofog to kill me." Then be raved

,. dettrkmdy, laying among other thinga, "Cbmt on, open ttc wp

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"VT7ITH Schultz out of the way, Dewey turned his attentions to Lucky

Luciano, one of the leaders of the combination which included

Lepke and Frank Cost el I o. Dewey's attack on Luciano was direct: he

wanted to get Luciano on one of his illicit enterprises and not on an

inoome tax charge.

Luciano had spent his life in the underworld. Born in Sicily, he was

brought here by his family at the age of nine in 1907. He had only

one job, at $7 for a 60-hour week. - This experience gave him a bitter

view of life, especially as lived honestly, and he determined to get

ahead in any way possible. He despised work and workers. He called

honest people "crumbs" and saw in them only the means of advancing himself.

At eighteen he spent a term in the reformatory for selling dope.

After his release he joined the Five Points gang, the same gang of

which Johnny Torrio and Al Capone were members. He was arrested

again, at 19, for selling narcotics. In exchange for his freedom, he

' told the Federal agents who had seized him where they could find

some higher-ups in the drug trade.

In the middle of the 1920's he was taken for a ride, but survived,

one of the few men who ever did. He was found severely wounded in

a Suten Island ditch, but refused to admit to the police that anyone

had tried to kill him. This was probably Lucky's way of atoning for

his stool pigeon activities in his youth. He was arrested numerous

limes,on various charges, but the police were never able to make them

stick.

According to underworld reports Luciano entered the prostitution

business merely to keep some of his gang busy. In 1933 Little Davie

Betillo, one of hia right hand men, called a conference of bookers of

prostitutes in a lower East Side restaurant, told them roughly that they

were now members of a syndicate, and that they did as he said, or got

out of town—or got shot. The instructions were brief and clear. The

bookers lined up.

True, the business was run better than it had ever been run before.

The girls, who were forced to put up $10 weekly as bail bond, were

given assurance that they would be protected from the police. Invariably they were. In 1935, 170 girls were arrested, but the combination

kept every one of them from prison.

Soon Luciano, with 200 houses and 1,000 girls added to his other

enterprises, was able to realize an additional income of about $12,775,-

000 per year.

Finally Governor Lehman sent word to Dewey to crack down on

Luciano.

Lurinno was picked up In Hoi Spring*, ArVanwtR, and return**! to New York.

Hiit hnit wan set nl $350,000. 11 was nttabluthed that Luciano had a room on the

twrnty-ninth floor of the Waldorf-An tori a limlcr the name of Charlo^fR>s*tand

thnt he dlao ww one of the Inrftml brorftriarir* of Ihe number* racket, controlled

much of <tniR importing nnd bookmakinR,%Qd many industrial rackets.
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On the night of January SI, 19S6> Dewey ataged a aeriaa of raids on New York's

BOOMS of prostitution. Hundreds of madam* and girla were brought lo Dewey'a

offlce in the Woolworth Building, and Dewey started hit questioning. :,
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To protect hia witnesses, Dewey would not allow them to be photographed.

Although few of them were individually reliable on the stand, the profusion of

evidence they preeented ataiiMt Luciano waa overwhelming. There waa no doubt

that he had placed prostitution on a chain-More bant*. Girls with names like

Cokey Flo, Nigger Ruth, Jenny the Factory teatified that they were shunted

from place to place "to the manner of an Orpheum circuit." Many of the girl*

were angry at the syndicate for keeping them in a state of peonage.

The xerdfct against Lucky and hh

Each of them was convicted of •frt£«wo

Luciano received . term of thirtyJo M£»eais.

Frederioo and Lucky are rushed off to prison.

Here Jimmy
THE HEAT IS ON

T UCIANO'S partners—Lepke Buchalter, Frank Costello, Gurrah Jake

•*-* Shapiro, Johnny Torrio, Buggsy Seigal, as well as Jimmy Hints,

the politician who protected them—were next on Dewey's list.

When prohibition passed into history, the gangs had turned to other

fields for revenue. The numbers racket, slot machines, narcotics, prostitution were among those more fully developed. Industrial racketeering

was one of the most profitable ventures, and it shortly reached heights

undreamed of even in the 1920's.

The rackets worked in numerous ways and it would take a Ph.D.

thesis to describe them completely. One way to run a racket was to

corner an entire business, as Ciro Terranova did with artichokes. No

one in New York bought an artichoke which was not sold through

Terranova's monopoly. Competitors were threatened or killed.

When the clothing workers began to organize mobsters hired out to

employers to break up the unions. Then the same mobsters hired out

to the unions to protect them from the employers. Soon many unions

were controlled by men like Lepke and Gurrah Jake Shapiro who

would threaten manufacturers with strikes unless paid off. In the

meantime, they were milking workers of union dues.

Dewey called Lepke and Gurrah Jake "the two greatest industrial

racketeers in the country." Lekpe was the brains of the team. "The

sinister careers of the two partners began about twenty years ago when

they teamed up as freelance sluggers and sold their services in industrial disputes to the highest bidder. . . . Lepke and Gurrah [eventually]

stepped into a position of power never challenged in (he great industrial rackets which they dominated. Their names." Dewey said, "were

almost a legend. When a gorilla called upon a businessman and said,

'I'm from L & G,' the victim asked no questions.... Lepke and Gurrah

. . . wouldn't think of carrying a gun or getting into trouble. They

graduated from all that years ago. .. . Of course if someone caused

them trouble, they might drop a hint to one of their subordinates that

they didn't like that person, but they wouldn't think of being direct

participants in his murder. That would be the private venture of some

one of the boys on the payroll, who would never squeal, even if

caught "

Lepke, the extent of whose enterprises is still unknown, is believed

to have had a share in over 250 criminal ventures—300 straw bg,.,J

administered his empire. There was a time in New York when almoTM

everything the citizen ate, drank or wore passed through gangster

hands. Among rackets controlled by Lepke and his associates were—

to name only a few—flour, fish, milk, furs, poultry, taxi cabs, coal,

laundry, building, and motion picture projection.

For years Hines' name had been linked to almost every major and

minor racketeer Dewey had investigated. Henry Miro and Wilfred

Brunder, the Harlem policy kings, had given him presents. Costello

had attended a political convention with him. Dewey uncovered evidence that Hines had given Schultz permission to use his name where

it would "do most good." George Weinberg* an associate of Schultz's

lawyer, Richard "Dixie" Davis, had been paying Hines $500 • week

for protection of the Schultz gang.' (Weinberg's brother was one of

the killers of Legs Diamond.) Schultz had also given Hines $30,000

for the election campaign of various candidates for public office in the

early 1930's. Davis and some numbers bankers had also contrir "«d

lesser sums. Schultz had arranged for bis men to bring in Roaters«^fc

voted repeatedly in elections. ^ ^

Other underworld characters linked to Hines included Owney Madden, Luciano, Lepke, Frank Costello, and Waxey Gordon.

If Dewey could get Hines, it would leave Lepke, Shapiro, Coctello

and the others without adequate political protection.