The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-26
GANG KILLING
SUSPECT FOUND
DEAD IN ROOM
Gunman, Sought in Staying
of Schultz and Aids,
May Be Suicide.
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NEW YORK. Oct. IS. 49, New
York's murderous underworld war
fare claimed another viz i'm today
when the body of Albert Stern, 81
year-old gunman sought in the re-
cent killing of Arthur Dutch
Schultz Flegenheimer and his aids,
was found strangied in Newark
apartment
Police said Stern either commit
TED suicide or was Choked to death
with a necktie. The room in which
the body was found was filed with
fumes from an open gas jet.
Police said they found a note in
the room. 1t was signed al and
read:
"Darling-This is good-by. Life is
not worth living without you, one
who loves you more than life itself.
Please take it as I would want you
to- Remember the lilacks."
Suicide or Murder" Police Says
Although the note indicated self
destruction, officials insisted on stat
ing that the death might have been
either suicide or murder. Author
tiles thought it significant that
Stern was living in Newark, where
Flegenheimer had gone to plead to
charges Of income tax evasion and
where he met death.
Stern, said to have been an i'm
ported slayer" first came to public
attention when police sought him in
the death of Louis Pretty Amberg,
Brooklyn racketeer chief, whose
hacked and burned body was found
in an automobile Tuesday night
Subsequently police hunted for
him after Flegenheimer, Manhat-
tans acknowledged underworld
leader, and three of his lieutenantS
were shot and fatally wounded in a
Newark barrOom Wednesday night.
Authorities also said he had been
identified tentatively as the gunman
who, an hour after the shooting in
Newark shot two men in a theatre
cal district barber shop in Manhat-
tan. One Of those wounded in the
barber shop was Martin Krompier,
Flcgenheimer's No. l aid.
Police were inclined to believe that
Johnny TOrrio, One-time notorious
Chicago underworld leader, might be
heading the syndicate that wished
the elimination of Flegenheimer
and others in order to take over the
multimillionaire racketeering bust
ness they controlled.
Allied with Torrio, police inform
ants said, are six notorious rack
eteers. Detectives and stool pigeons
In New York, Newark and other big
cities Of the East bent every effort
to find them without success.
Answers With Wise Cracks
Beyond that investigators had
only two promising leads to identi-
ties and motives of men who killed
Flegenheimer and his followers and
, earlier rubbed out Louis pretty
j Amberg and his brother, Joe, lead
lers of another rival gang.
. Most important of the Two leads,
, in police eyes, was Mrs. Frances
Flegenheimer, 21-year-old mother of
two children, who revealed yester-
day she never married Flegenheimer
. but was his common law wife "by g
illegal contract" A Newark court
s held her yesterday in $4,000 bail as
IA material witness.
?, Mrs. Flegenheimer was hard
" pressed to explain several things.
. The pretty former cabaret hostess
doeplied only with tart wise cracks
Ind a question Of her own.
If you cops don't know any
lining about it, why expect me to
,,,inoW so much?"
n, The second principal clew was a
:, toOm in a New York hotel that
lrAmberg apparently had used for
u WO years as a business office and
nideaWay. Police Commissioner
Lewis j. Valentine said records
found there were "of the greatest
Importance.