The Washington times., 1935-10-24
STERN HUNTED
AS SLAYER
OF SEVEN

NEW YORK, oct. "A 1.N.SO.
New York police catapulted Al
Stern, 81, into pageone notoriety
today as the slayer of seven under
world associates who might
testify against him in a murder
and in a kidnapping case, and as
O possible participant in the shoot.
ing Of the Dutch Schultz gang.
A general alarm was out for the
arrest Of Stern in connection with
the Staying of Louis (Pretty}
Amberg whose body was found
early yesterday in burning au-
tomobile in Brooklyn.
Police also want to question
Stern in connection with the gang
land attack on Dutch Schultz and
his satellites in Newark last night.
Two of the Dutchman'S body
guards were wounded fatally, and
the erstwhile beer baron was
fighting for his own life this
morning.
But even If Stern had no con-
nection with the Schultz shoot
ing, the career with which police
credit Inn makes hm even more
of a menae than "Two-Gun"
Crowley or Vincent Coll, two
other youths whose quick-trigger
activities terrorized the metropolis
before they were shot down.
Fugitive for Year
Stern comes from the poverty
stricken Brownsville section in
East Brooklyn. He has been a
fugitive since August, 1884, when
he was indicted on charges of
first-degreetmurder in the killing
Of Patrolman John j. Fraser in
the hold-up Of Brownsville
store.
After the Fraser shooting
The rat-eyed Stern with the
glicked-back hair became a hench-
man Of Joseph and pretty Louis"
Teitlebaum. These lads, working
the uSury racket, were lending
money at a 20 per cent per week
interest rate. Delinquent debtors
were slugged numerically as
examples" and the money, a
golden stream Of usury, woured
In.
Dissatisfaction became the
mother Of ambition with Stern.
Disguised, he stuck up his boss,
Joe Amberg, and got $70-but he
also got the fear Of death that's
driving him today.
Amberg recognized him!
Goes Into Hiding
No more, in public, was Al Stern.
But ganglsnd events moved rap
idly-inexorably.
Sudden death" came in short
order to Pretty Louis" and Joe
Amberg and to Little Frank"
Why?
Because, police believe. Of the
virus of fear that boilS in the
warped brain Of Al Stern-the fear
Of underworld execution or death
in the electric chair.
All three knew that AL had
been indicted for the murder of
Patrolman Fraser. All three knew
AL had held up Joe. And AL
knew that they knew-that he
could expect a one-way ride or
the hot seat unless all three were
Silenced-permanently.
Joe Amberg and his chauffeur
were moved down by mobsters'
bullets in a Brooklyn garage.
Little Franks body was thrown
from a speeding automobile. Yes
terday, the hacked and garroted
body of Pretty Louis" was
dragged from a burning car in
Brooklyn.
But the bloody trail doesn't
end there.
Removes Witnesses
Police attribute four other gang
land deaths to Stern in in his ef-
forts to remove possible witnesses
against him in a kidnapping for
q $1,000 ransom.
Strangest of all the victim,
Batiste Salvo, a policy banker, de-
nies there was any kidnapping, but
he is held in $4,000 bail as a
witness to it.
With others, Stern kidnapped
Salvo and held him until the
$4,000 was paid, police believe.
Since, then four underworld
youths of the Bronx have been
killed and two other wounded. All
of them, police say, were in on
the Salvo job.
Stern, they say, has been busy
removing witnesses.
But some remain, and AL Stern,
with the nervous trigger-finger, is
still on the prowl.
Plan Bingo Party