The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-10
GETS ROLL TO
BUY LOT WHISKY
Pickle Man and $4,000
Fund Vanish From
Sight.
WAS TO BUY BOOZE
Wife Has Left Pickle Bust
ness, Limousine and Cab
bage,' But No Harry.


/ CHICAGO. Aug. e.-Down at
Central station they call It the
Great Pickle Mystery" And It's a
sad case
First Harry Michellvs son. cab
bage,' is hearthroken. Harry is miss
ing. SO is $4,000 intrusted to him
by a group Of friends, who gave It
TO him thinking he'd furnish whisky
in return.
Next. Sam" LIsticky. cgg candicr.
has a lump on his Jaw. a piece OF
yteak on his right eye and many
Eiark thoughts in his soul Sam"
was Harry's friend. He's now in
jail.
Harold J. Michellv. - yenrs old.
owner OF the Sunshine Pickle fac
tory. manufacturers OF the famous
"Moonshine Pickles" lived with his
wife Anna, and his son. Cabbage"
at 1880 Evergreen ayenue--until last
night. Harry. the police say is
bootleggor do luxe,
He Meets some 1.-Two Ones.
About three weeks ago, In the
Board OF Trade hotel, Harry Niche
liv met Harry NJ. Nadel. $40 Sunny
side avenue, former Investigator for
the lato Herman +. Schuettler;
Albert Powers living on Rosemont
avenue near Broadway, nephew
Of AID. John Powers OF the Nine
teenth ward. and himself broker
and promoter, and Robert Fab
brini. owner of a saloon at EOS West
sNan Buren, street
i've got friend on tho north
side who has $50 cases OF real bond
ed stuff-550 Of II Sunnybrook-and
who wants to get rid of it. Can wo
make a deal?" said Michcllv.
Why, certainly tne trio re-
sponded
Two weeks ago Micheliv called
Sam LiSticky, an intimate friend.
It's said OF Mlcheliv's wife, Anna,
and said:
sam. come down TO the Morri-
son hotel | will make you $4,000. |
It's a big whisky deal" Sam came. |
He was taken to Room s42. He
was introduced to Powers, Fabbrini, !
and Nadel as MIR. Benjamin Cor |
don" who owned the whisky. The !
trio paid Gordon" $500 an initial
payment TO show good faith Lis. !
tioky and Micheliv went downstairs. |
Listicky passed the coin over.
Agrco on Prico of SsI 900.
4 week ago they met again--still |
at the Morrison. Then the total
amonnte-ssi ,000--was agreed up
on. Nadel. Fabbrini and Powers !
paid Gordon" another $500 and !
Micheliv $1,000. mpleting the to-
tai OF $1,000 demanded as earnest
money" Again Micheliv got Cor
don's" share.
On Monday night they met again +
10 finish payment. There were. be-
sides the five already mentioned, |
Henry Hurley and Daniel Peg Leg"
Murphey. co-owners OF a saloon at
Thirty-seventh and wallace streets;
Frank Fall saloonkeeper at 4704
South Halsted street, and Eddie .
Tancel. eX-pugilist and owner of a
coffee house at Sixteenth street and |
Blue Island avenue, Tho Hurley
Murphy contribution was 33l 900.
The Fan donation to tho pool was
$4,000. Tancel turned In 5000,
for his share. The remainder wsS
from smaller fry.
Friend Harry Gers the Roll.
They wrapped the coin in news
paper and gave il TO Gordon"
outside the hotel the saloonmen
had their gangs to transport the
booze, which was said to be in
warehouse at 743 North Clark.
Gordon and Mitcheliv thenleft TO
get tho keys
Micheliv drove his seven passen-
ger car TO the EdSewater Beach
hotel. Listicky (Gordon) had the
money. When they arrived Niche
lv said: Just a minute I'll go and
phone. A minute later no camo
back my mans at the Hotel La
Sale" Sc said. They drove down
town TO la Sale street entrance.
Michele took the money, left Cor
don" in his car. and said he'd 20
upstairs and square "his man" He
went inside.
Sam Nervous Prospect.
An hour later Sam Listicky be-
gan to get nervous His thoughts
ran mostly to the husky sangmen
and their bosses who waited for tho
booze, He phoned to Anna, Niche
Tvs wife. No, Harry hadn't come
home.
Then he called Powers, room
2047 Morrison hotel. Hey. Al"
he Eaid, and told his tale. Ten sec
onds later there irrupted on Madi-
con street a bevy OF angry booze
purchasers. a dozen cars drew
UP at the La Sale. They got poor
Sam Listlcky, who, weeping. told
hla tale. and then
'Dey hit me I'm de owe and stamped
my face" he said. "Dey pushed me
on the floor and wiped der feet up
on my neck. Dey tuoS me TO the
hotel an dey beat me up, An den
dey said dey'd trow me from d'win4l
dow, o! Noi! o. Yoi,"
They comhed the south and west
sides all the night for Harry Niche
liv. But Harry wasn't found, His
pickle business. limousine, wife and
his son Cabbage still are here, but
Harry disappeared,
Police Find no Trace