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STATING T RTE WITNCe” MEET CH TWH Lud WILLId ANG DEATH . A. Cleaner War Figure Taken for Ride, Dumped in Ravine — (Photo on Page Three) aurice Mal 54, whose § ensational evidence in a 1939¢ ‘cleaners and dyers” war urder trial here sent five fmen to life imprisonment, wyesterday was found slain inf. e gangland fashion near) Ma’ aD en a kavine two miles ast of Oak Cove Park where heF ad been dumped after being Vigan fax = ride” he had heen s“taken for & ride,” ne been ashot twice in the head and twice) zin the chest with 2 38 caliber) é automatic pistol. Formerly engaged in the clean- ~ing business and a key figure in} S Los Angeles’ murderous acid- yand- bomb-throwing cleaners and en battle in 1931, of late he here, MADE TRIP Identified through an airline receipt found in his pocket which} eave his address as 5230 West ‘Olympic boulevard, Wilshire, Station Detective Robert Swan learned from the slain man’s widow that on Saturday he flew te Oakland to purchase radio \parts. had operated a radio parts store|s i 1170 South La Brea avenue F TS 7 gue 62 9839 automobile and tossed over a. < ‘> wire fence, the bedyiiedt me doubt that Malter had been . taken for a ride by his me- | aes,” Sherttt McGrath said. fe! . On April 27, 1839, after Malter freedom from a murder charge by turning state's evidence and testifying against six other de-. ‘or the staying of John Stock-* watchman in an east-side| ng shop, who was shot and . filed December 16, 1981, seven ® ears before, during the cleaners and dyers war. z TESTIFIED-—~- Malter testified concerning the; pistol used to slay, the watchman": and told the court that Ed; Rollins, one of those found guilty, had threatened: : “If you ever tell police what you know about that gun— you'll have a bullet put through? your head,” Those Sentenced fo Wfe im. prisonment. wer? i Rollins, Chi cago hoodlum;*£d Freedman and a ex-convicts; and ’ be: owan and- 'Geor © oO ~d Gartler, wholesale cleaning ple Proprieters who, according ae \ Malter’s testimony, hired the first. ‘o> three in an effort to monopolize’ -T IN through terror the cleaning and, . dyeing industry here. u g aa Freedman, who was serving a oR term for the Jewel robbery of. PT el TroDie Actress Mae West when convicted: on the murder charge, is still in’ San Quentin. The others have, been paroled. Fisher is serving a Six months’ sentence on a har- cotics charge in the county jail’ SAF aati Se aed wow Lt é “ite