AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: | 124-10283-10331 RECORD SERIES: HO AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-75147-34-45 ORIGINATOR: FROM: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECT: DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW_DATE: STATUS COMMENTS: Docld: 32303319 Page 1 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI SAC. NY DIRECTOR. FBI 05/06/1947 3 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 05/09/1998 Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) BBA, WIT, MURDER, HINTZ, ANTHONY, RACK ACT, LABOR UNIONS NEW CLASSIFICATION: : ” UPDATE DATE:
Released under. the John Fe . Kennedy . Assassination Records CoTlection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hotes. “DATE: wt rye : Spe op erTAT Dee ee Ee ‘Gir14-2017 ana j oe Cot . pw a ee 7 : : a Se ee cee ne Teenie ee npn ee ce ee ne eee ee a —_ ok Criminal Control of Unions : -- ee -, “Ay on Pemneseuas, Papeeounnranes Fae von Lid - se Information as to the criminal clement on the w New York City. The situation has crystalli zed during the. pa following manner. The information was furnished by Captain New York City Police Department. . ieee Information furnished was to the effect that on January &, 1947 one iy HINTZ of 61 Grove Street, New York, N. Y., who was enployed as a boss sue evedere on Pier 51,. North River, New York City, was shot on tile stairway be- treen the second and third floors of his hore, - aNTZ had been employed. as boss stevedere and had been having difficulty with notorious hoodluns on the water- front who were attempting to gain. control of HiNTZ's pier. On several occasions prior to January 8th efforts had been made to have HiNT’Z surrender his pier to these characters. This he refused to do. In addition, several days prior to danuary sth HINTZ had noticed two or three men sitting in a car outside of his ‘home. He recognized two of the men as al DRERAS SHERIDAN and DANIEINGENT: ELE. On January Sth he heft his apartizent on the third floor of 61 Grove Street at about 7:40 A and as he came down the stairway between the third and secon id floors he noticed three men standing on the landing of the second floor, ‘These men were ANDREW SEEPIDAN, DANTEL GENTILE and JOHN -BUNN. Without any warning one of the men drew a gun and : fired six snots at. HINTZ All six shots took effect. HINTZ was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital in'New York City ‘ . SPN tage . : 5 Stree EU arr oettonmmnartoe Neate ts ce OE ROEER SES UE EAA ORE! ate ecsager emit gett eo me POA anata sn remanent hae Subsequently, Acting Captain Haw4ILL advised that while at St. Vincent's Hospital ANTHONY HINTZ made a dving.declaration in the presence of several — witnesses and a stenographer in which HIUTZ not only named SHERIDAN, GENTILE and DUNN as the gunmen but also gave descriptions of theme JOHN DUNN was apprehended on January 8, 1947, by the New York City Police Department and is being hela without. bail. ANDREW SHERIDAN was taken into custody by the } Hollywood, Florida, Police. Department on January 24, 1947, and was subsequently renoved to New York City under the Unlawful Plight to | Avoid Prosecution statute. He is being held nitheat bail, At the time SHERIDAN. was appre ehended he was riding with one FR s well as with JEEP LE-RORE By te lety pe dated February 11, 1947 the Salt Lake City Field Division advised that BARNED BAKER, alias LomNglayton, had iaformedgonfidential Informant SIc 257 that he, BAKER, arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the 1O0tn of January for: the purpose of hiding out. Accoraing to the informant, SAKER claimed ime was wanted a by the New York authorities and that ne was sent to Las Vegas by the New York Criminal Syndicate to contact BENJAxIN "BUGS" SISGSL for s the - purpose "Of "cooling off", According to the Salt Lake City informant, BAKEP had contacted MOE “SsDWAY and HiniEsih YGEL; he was then registered under tne name of LOU CLAYTON at the Fl Cortez Hotel, Lag Vegas, and arrangements were being made to-move nim to the kv Carsen Auto Court awaiting the return of SIEGEL from Los. ' Angeles. . ¢ . - 102 — Docld: 32303319 Page 2?
Released’ under the John F. Kennedy | Assassination Records Collection ‘Act of 1997 (44 WSC 2107 Hotes. DATE: *11-14~2017. 4 a ; a Se 4 f . i ia ot os PA 419 ‘ Captain HARMILL informed BAK™R was wanted for questioning as “a witness in connection with the murder of HINTZ, but that no efforts © _ would be made to arrest him until he returns to New York City. It was a subsequently determined that BAKFR went to work at the Colonial Inn in Hollywood, Florida, as a driver of people who had won large sums of money gambling there. Information has been set forth in crime survey -reports submitted by the Miami Office as to the ownership of the Colonial: « _ inn by the LANSKY brothers. po meen wit eaaeegee 3 ‘ Bande eT ae at ae int ee ear “Nvc gl advised DANIEL GENTILE, one of the salyers of HINTZ; associated with JACKIE: ‘ADAMS, a bookmaker in, Leng Island City, New York¢ ADAMS was at one time a vice president ef the Varick Enterprises, now- defunct, which supplied stevedores to. various piers on the waterfront in New York City. He has also worked as a dealer in the Glubd Greenacres and the Club 86 in Miami, Florida, which are also alleged to be operated. . i oy sath ott rma caneete! pean Basalt oe v by the LANSKY brothers. VINCENT ALO alias JIMMY BLUE EYES, who has been. a mentioned previously in the crime survey program, is also alleged to have i a "plecel! in these slubs, as well as the: Golonial Inn, mentioned. above?¢ 4 aot t - Captain: ‘HEMMEEET: also related: EDWARD -StcCRATH, who-has’ been”. t mentioned previously in the crime survey program, may be tied into this aa cases It is noted VINCENT ALO is McCRATH's superior on the docks in — New York City. ANDREW SHERIDAN made two trips to the Colonial Inn in -. Hollywood prior to the shooting of HINTZ, and apparently got instruc-. tions from ALO as to the shooting. JACKIE ADAMS, mentivned above, has gone to -Hollytocd ard is presently back at the Colonial Inn. 5 sank chetatewine miming hy ete ar net te anger eaten inti ici sw abstaNboacs ict a wh Shere Paar ad ss Bae On danvary 31, 1947, a New York County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging ANDREW SHERIDAN, DANIEL GPINTILE, and JOHN DUNN: with murder in the first degree. ve , It is noted CENTILE surrendered to the New York City Police Department after the indictment was returned. He formerly ran a policy racket in the Chelsea waterfront district in New York Citys : It is further observed JOHN DUNN is business agent of the Terminal Checkers Union, American Federation of Labor, and ANDREW SHERIDAN ‘" was organizer for the Hoboken, New Jersey, local of this Same union, until December, 19464 | j THOMAS wrEDDYacEasoN, organizer of the International Lon _ shoremen's Association, American Federation of Labor, on April 3, 7 was held in $50,000.6@ bail as a material witness in the murder = 109 - oe CATSIYT BES eR eee ee a eee _ _- . . ee - ais Docld: 32303319 Page 3