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willing but firmly welded members of
the ruthless Dutch Shultz mob-a
group Of killers, extortionists and ter
rorists that held the entire numbers
business of Greater New York in an
| iron grip.
! They were forced by Dutch's strong
arm men to join the mob, to sur
! render most of their profits. They
wanted to quit. but they couldnt-the
mob had promised to rub them out
if hey did, and they knew it meant
what it said. They were valuable
to Shultz because they had an estab-
lished business In the numbers.
When the slain Dutch Shultz and
II others were indicted last summer
with evidence obtained by Thomas E.
Dewey, Manhattan's new district at
/ torney, Pompez and Ison were among
| the accused.
! Pompez fed to Mexico. He was
eXtradited and returned to New York
the other day. Ison sought refuge
in France. Located. he returned vol
unfairly.
Guarded From Mob.
They are ready. it is understood, to
turn states evidence whenever the mob
is rounded up and the case brought to
trial.
Meanwhile, they are under bond
with a police bodyguard, at their own
| request.
Among the several fugitives for
whom New York detectives still pur-
sue worldwide search is "Bo" Wein-
berg, brother of George Weinberg, said
to have been business manager of the
mob.
"Bo," says the underworld grape
vine, is in the East River, with his
feet in block Of cement.
Dixie" Davis, the disbarred attor-
ney who succeeded to the mob's lead
ership when Dutch was erased by shot
gun slugs. is in hiding somewhere, with
a $4,000 reward for his capture. So
are five others.
Well get them ALL" said an ace in
vestigator. 1T may take little time.
But most of them are broke, despite
the millions they dealt in when the
policy game was at its height, and q
man on the lam needs money. II he
starts pulling anything, he's apt to
get caught and sure in that event to
be identified"
What Washington Might Expect.
This Is 4 tip-o1 to Washington,
where crime has increased alarmingly
as the numbers business has grown:
The reign Of the racketeers in New
York was marked by a continuous fiow
OF inner crime waves that eddied
through the canyons Of Manhattan
and the home communities OF Brook
lyn and the Bronx.
The same veteran detective said:
When you get big-time racketers
in control of things, hundreds of
gorlllas and little punks come in like
camp followers, looking for easy
money. They know the mobs have
the town organized and are going
ahead without much hindrance, as
they were in New York for more than
10 years.
These small-time punks pull the
stick-ups and housebreakings and
petty extortion schemes. They figure
the towns easy, since the racketeers
are getting away with it.
I'VE had any number of hold-ups,
burglaries and other crimes while the
mobs had a free hand. Robberies,
assaults and murders have dropped oil
to marked extent since Dewey drove
out the rAckets."
They still play the numbers in New
York, but to nothing like the extent
they did, say the authorities, and the
players no longer support with their
small change gang of desperadoes.
But Washington is known through
out the East as the city where every.
body plays the numbers"
And it's rapidly becoming known
also as city of crime and violence.
The police know Of at least one tie