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Al Capone — Part 1
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barbers, boot-blacks and peddlers, who purchase a car of juice grapes and
resell it in small lots. TonypStch was bodyguard of Joe Ferrera in 1929
and both of these men were shot in the Spring of 1950, Perrera being killed
and Butch seriously wounded. Butch subseqiwwntly fled to lilwaukes, Wisconsin,
where he has been in hiding up until a short time azo when he returmd to
Chicago, Illinois.
Lr. Irrgang stared that the lins-u r 1930 of the racketeers for
the vai fot 3 juice grapes a e Chicago orthvestern track is in charge
of Te@iewberry who is mi yed ed with the Al“Capone gang and furnishes the money
to buy the grapes. Mammy ipo me of the Fruit and Produce Company,
Chicago, Illinois, has bean mit in charge of this "racket," and Tony Butch
hes been brought fran Milwaukee, sconsin, to work with Schrieber.
Schrieber's "muscle man" is To omano, a racketeer who represents Newberry
and Schrisher in the intimidation of juicos grcpe buyers ani has clerge of
the gun men.
Ou September 12, 1950, three gun men in a Buick Sedan visited tie
Produce Termine] track at 27th & Ashland Aveme, Chieam, Dlinois, for the
purpose Of intimidating the buyers,ani on September 16, 1930, two other gim
men cams to this track in a Lincoln Sedan,sbwing their guns,and told Sam
Grey and his partner Dave (last mame unknowm) that the gun mn represen ted
Manny Schrieber am that these buyers would hear more about this matter later.
On September 19, 1950, Mr. Irrgang returned from the auction at 27th &
Ashland Ayeme, Chicago, with Mamy Schrieber ani Tony Ramano, and on this
trip Schrieber told Irrgang that Schrieber had taken Ferrera's place in tha
juice grape racket and thet Sclrieber would later see Irrgang to mke a deal
on the cars of juice grapes auctioned at the railroad tracks in Chicago,
Iilinsis, .
On Septexber 21, 1950, Mark nateoma, a Chicago fruit broker,
who hendled the Ferrera juice grape purchases: in 1929 on a joint accomt
of Adanson and Ferrera, and Mamny Schrieber talked to Perry Stern, assistant
to Irrgang and an auctionser in the United States Fruit duction Company
at the Atcheson, Topekm end Santa Fe track on 2ist and Archer Streets, Chimec,
Illinois, Lr. ‘Schrieber atated to Mr. Stern that the representatives of
the juioeg grape growers fron Californis were caning into Chicago am selling
juices grapes at lower prices than the market price and that these representa-
tives would be prevented fram doing this after Schriper had organized the
juice grape merket. On the same afternoon at the Chicago ani Northwestern
juice grape track, Tony Romano told Perry Stern substantially the statennt
as given by Schrieber to Perry Stern.
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