Originator: FBI
From: ROEMER, WILLIAM F.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 09/26/1958
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/12/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10201-10027

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

92-3182-30

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

ROEMER, WILLIAM F.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE:

09/26/1958

PAGES:

63

SUBJECTS :

GAL, BKG, RES

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

02/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

feleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

58262 Date: 09.22-2022

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CHICAGO

TITLE OF CASE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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Date

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ALbK roturned to his residence at 4300 North Marine Drive,

Chicago, Intinolo, on 7/22/50 then he vas observed 3y

Bureau agent;

ho directed a reprosentative of the serae

Ractets Committee to

tam?

toi the purpose of

serving

subpoens.

suoX and his ife continue to reaide at 4:00

worth larine Drive at present.

Although Alux bes claimed

employment by the atlas

being Company from 1044 to

192, 011CIa1: 01

atlas advised he has never been employed

Tens on atrised that ahe and slus vere married

at least not since 1992.

Although nother of

in

1950 in anta Barbara, California

records there and in

other California cities do not reflect such marriage.

Thirty-three close associates of ALEx identified herein.

Alma suspected andquestioned by Chicago Police Department

negarding

several gangland killings and kidnappings in

recent rears.

Intil death of JAke CUBIr in 1950g Aux

as clotely ascociated ith him and upon Gialk's death

tools over his

position in t'e syndicate.

Alue no contro

first

ard or Chicago, a large area containing the "100p"

near South and near west sides.

Alux formerly received

income from 122 Club, 122üo Cernak Foad, Chicagos

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in Charge

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The following informants

furnishing current

information regarding ALEX:

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The following informants have furnished recent

information concerning ALEX, but none during the period

covered by instant report:

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The following

Potential Criminal Informants

are furnishing current information about ALEX:

BILL KAPLAN

PAUL RAFFLES

RAY LONGTREE

TULA FOLTZ

PCI RAY LONGTREE is furnishing current information

concerning the residence,

associates and activity of ALEX

at his residence.

In addition, the following investigaion

has been conducted at the residence of ALEX in order for

this office to be furnished with current and valuable

information concerning the day to day activity of ALEX:

In view of the fact that ALEX has all his mail

addressed to him at his mother's residence in Evergreen

Park, Illinois, and since he visits there at least once

or twice a week, constant contact is maintained with

the following sources:

Sergeant MICHAEL A. SERRITELLA,

who grew up in the same neighborhood as ALEX, who. knows

him very well, and enjoys a certain amount of his

confidence and who lives two blocks from ALEX's mother

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in Evergreen Park.

Sergeant SERRITELLA has agreed to,

and does, frequently drive past ALEX's mother's house

to observe

the activity there.

Contact has also been

maintained with two of the neighbors who reside across

the street

from ALEXis mother.

Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH

VINCENT and HENRY TORBERG.

The following contacts have been made in

attempts to insure that the activities and associates

of ALEX at his residence are made known to this office: .

On February 27, 1958, GEORGE HIRSCHEL, the

garage attendant who works days at the garage where the

subject keeps cars which he uses, advised that "RYAN",

the alias used by ALEX at his residence,

his car in the garage where HIRSCHEL works (at subject's

residence), and that even if "RYAN" did keep the car

there, HIRSCHEL would not advise about it. He was

very belligerent and non-cooperative.

On about March 10, 1958, JOHN I. MC. INERNEY,

the elevator operator at the subject's residence, 4300

North Marine Drive, who worked the 4:00 PM to midnight

shift, furnished information concerning "RYAN" and was

most cooperative until June, when he was fired by the

management for refusing to

perform extra duties for

which he was not paid.

MC INERNEY was not only a most

cooperative source, but also took his association with

this office most seriously. He obtained a great deal

of information concerning ALEX's associates, numbers of

taxi cabs and

cars picking ALEX up, telegrams delivered

there, and he kept a running, handwritten log on the

comings and goings of ALEX ad his wife.

On April 1, 1958, HAROLD MC ELVANIY, elevator

operator on the. 8:00

AM to

4:00 PM shift at the residence

of the subject,

furnished information' regarding ALEX.

He continued to furnish information regarding ALEX until

June, when he was fired by the management due to the

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fact that he became intoxicated and did not report to

work for a three week period.

During the

time

he

cooperated with this office, he furnished substantial

information concerning ALEX, including identifying

information regarding the chauffeur-bodyguard of ALEX,

"BUTCH" LADON, the cars LADON drove, taxi numbers, and

he also furnished information about

goings of ALEX and his wife and their visitors, although

not on the large scale that MO INERNY was able to.

hey was abdo to house

On May 20, 1958, THOMAS MC GANN, 2222 Giddings,

an elevator operator on the 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM shift

at 4300 North Marine Drive, was contacted by SA ROMER.

much.

He was contacted once or twice a week from

May 20, 1958, until July 22, 1958.

During that time,

ALEX and his

wife were not at their residence, due to

the fact that ALEX was evading a subpoena of the Senate

that he had not seen ALEX or his wife, but on each

contact he promised that as soon as he observed that

ALEX or his wife had returned to their residence, he

would inmediately so advise this office.

He gave no

indication that he would not fully cooperate with this

office in that matter.

This continued until July 22,

1958, when independent information was received that

ALEX and his wife had returned to Chicago.

He was

contacted that date and he advised that he had not seen

either of them but again promised that as soon as he

did, he would immediately contact SA ROEMER telephonically.

On the evening of July 22, 1958, after Mrs. ALEX had

been observed at her residence by SA ROEMER, MC GANN

was recontacted by the agent. He advised again that he

and then

stated that he was "not going to talk" to the agent

any more. When asked for a clarification of his attitude

and the reason for his apparent change of mind, MC. GANN

would only say that he did not want to be "found inan

alley some night. "

He stated that it was SA ROEMER's

job to keep in touch with ALEX and not his, and that

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such was what SA ROMER got paid for, not him.. MC GANN

was most adamant in his refusal to agree to a recontact

or to furnish any information whatsoever regarding ALEX.

He has not been recontacted since July 22, 1958.

On July 30, 1958, JOSEPH MEREHAUT, 4628 North

Dover, elevator operator on the 4:00 PM to midnight

shift,

was contacted.

He agreed

to furnish information

regarding ALEX and did so on that occasion.

He was

most cooperative on that occasion and noted that it was

a civic reponsibility to cooperate with an organization

like the FBI, and that he knew his identity would be

fully protected. He agreed to recontact by SA ROLMER,

but stated that he did not remain in his rented room

only to sleep,

and that he had no phone there.

suggested that he be recontacted on the following

Wednesday evening, when he was going to have dinner

with the LONGTREE

family at 1450 North Clark.

fore, on August 6, 1958, telephonic contact was made

during the evening to the LONGTREE residence and SA

ROEMER asked to talk to MARlAUT. Mrs. LONGIREE advised

that MEREHAUT was not there and that she did not expect

him, not that night and not the next week. She was

very brusque.

on August 7, 1958, Mrs. LONGTREE called SA

ROEMER and explained

that she was

sorry for her short

conversation of the evening before, but that MEREHAUT

was there and had instructed her that when the writer

called,

she was not to advise that he was there and

to state that she did not know when he would be there

again.

She stated that he informed her that someone

at work had talked to him and told him that he had

better be careful, that if he was to talk to the police

or the FBI, that held get "knocked in the head."

told her that he had been satisfied by SA REMeR that

if he furnished information regarding ALEX, it would

and that his contact with this office

would be strictly confidential, but he told her that

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he did not want to take any chances with a "guy like

GUS ALEX". He told her that he would not mind talking

to the FBI about petit criminals, but that a guy like

ALEX, "is too big for me".

Mr. and Mrs. LONGTREE

advised that MEREHAUT eats at

their residence on each

wednesday night, and that they will attempt to "pump"

him and then furnish any information which they can obtain

regarding ALEX to. SA ROMAR. They were requested to

do so.

On August 8, 1958, WILLIAM HOPKINS, 901

Lawrence,

elevator

operator on the 8:00 AM to

4:00 PM shift, was contacted at his residence (as

wEre all the

above).

HOPKINS advised that although

he has worked at 4300 North Marine Drive for four

years, it is just recently that he has become an elevator

operator, formerly having been a garage attendant in

the lower lever of the garage. It Is noted that ALEX

keeps the cars he uses in the upper level which is

attended by HIRSCHEL, above. HOPKINS advised that he

knows "RYAN" and his wife as tenants at 4300 North

Marine Drive, but that he has not seen them in the past

two or three months there.

It is noted that ALEX

and his wife have been absent therefrom from the first

part of May to date except for three or four days

and this would account for HOPKINS' failure to observe

them.

As in the case with the above interviewees,

HOPKINS was advised that any contact with the FBI. and

any information which he furnishes would be kept strictly

confidential, and that there is no way for ALEX to learn

of it unless

through HOPKINS.

He was advised not to

mention his contact with this office to anyone.

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HOPKINS

agreed to keep his eyes and ears open for ALEX and his

and to report any information of possible interest

regarding them to this office. He furnished his phone

number, EDgewater 4-4421, and

stated that he could be

contacted at any time after 4:30 PM.

Contact with A. C. JAWAREK and Mr. NEWBERGER,

manager and bookkeeper

repectively, at 4300 North

Marine Drive, has been made regularly since about

February 1, 1958, by SA WALTER H. SANDSTROM, and since

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February 25, 1958, by SA ROEMER.

have

expressed willingness

These individuals

to fully cooperate with

this

office and have never refused to do so.

However,

they have been of very little assistance.

They continue

to point out that they are not in a position to know

of ALEX's comings or goings, his activities, his

associates, or anything else which may be of assistance

to this office.

The only information they havé ever

furnished has been that ALEX, as RYAN, continues to pay

rent for an apartment there.

When ALEX was being sought

by this office as a missing witness of the Senate

Rackets Committee,

they advised only that someone,

unknown to them and in their absence, paid ALEX's

rent

every month by dropping cash in an envelope on their

desk.

They have advised that they are unable to find

ALEXis application for the apartment which he executed

when he moved in.

They have also advised that they do

not know whether ALEX keeps a car in the garage stall

which he pays rent on.

In summation, they profess

cooperation but have never gone out of their way to

obtain any information and it is suspected that they

could furnish more if so inclined.

Concerning WILLIAM HOrnINS, above, It is

reported herein that RAY LONGTREE,

who is now under

development as a PCI, advised that he knows that ALEX

pays HOPKINS to report visits of FBI Agents to the

Murray Hill Apartments, and that It was HOPKINS who

told MAREHAUT that he had better not cooperate with

the FBI.

INFORMANTS

T-1

PCI RAY LONGTREE

On September 11, 1958,

to SA WILLIAM A. ROEMER.

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On July 29, 1958, to

SA

WILLIAM F.

RO EMER

ERIC EDSTRAND,

Manager and Distributor,

Blatz Brewing Company,

Chicago Division,

401 North Hamlin,

Chicago, Illinois

(Upon request)

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TOM CROSTON, Stewart,

Southern Shores Yacht Club,

Jackson Park Harbor;

Chicago, Illinois

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TULA PASCUAL FOLTZ, PCI

T- 7.

PCI BILL KAPLAN

On August 9, 1958, to

SAS RALPH R. HILL

and

WILLIAM F. ROEMER

on August 14, 1958, to

SA JOHN B. HARRINGTON

On August 7, 1958, to

SA WILLIAM A. MEINCKE

On July 28, 1958, to

SA ROBERT W. HEDDEN

On September 43 1958, to

SAS RALPH R. HILL and

WILLIAM F. ROEMER.

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