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Bugsy Siegel — Part 25
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as hon orders from “the L
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demvorid syndicate.” .
The syndicate signed his death:
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son Trail inN.Y.
t “because Benny thres'
Police know the identity of
ed to blow the whistle and tell:
n :
.{the man who murdered Ben-
jamin (Bugsy) Siegel.
A. little more avidence and
they'lt be ready to “put the arm”
Siegel's threat was made in’
harles (Lucky) Luciano to .’
ake the “boys kick through toe
th more money to support the
altering fortunes of The Flam-.
ngo, Siegel's $6,000,000 Las
Vegas resort, : .
GUN CLEW. Jf
Hints were that a former po-,
lice officer may have wielded.
the 30-30 carbine that sent the.
bullets into Siegel as the latter.
sat in a chair in the Beverly
Hills mansion, . el
Anderson poinied out that this
is an unusual type of firearm,
“though kept in all police arsen- !
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“I know who did it,” Police
Chief Anderson of Beverly Hilts
told Lee Mortimer, New York
Mirror reporter, ;
“Now have to Wrap up
enough evidence to justify an’
indictment.” .
Anderson’s statement was
made in New York while he was
there as a delegate to the Inter-
national Police Chiefs’ Confer-
ente,.
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»” Mortimer’s copyrighted
Story quotes Anderson ag say.
: “Whoever did this knows I
.am out to get him, .e
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‘Los Angeles law enforcement
officers who had cooperated ; -
with the boys in drawing a!
red herring across the West |
Coast phase of Murder, Md
had been taken care of —Jin | , a
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