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Eliot Ness — Part 1

37 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Eliot Ness · 37 pages OCR'd
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Meus. for the Director ~li- Sn] 20S "Habshaw is telling the race track people that 4f they do not employ Noonan, Sheriff<Hanratty will not let them race, The reason of thia is, thet Rabshaw and Noonan and Joe“Ball are going 50-50 on the profits. When Rabshaw was in the Police Department and even now, as you know, he did not have a friend". "This Rabshaw has been double erossing Hanratty ever since he has been in office and if they use the power of the Sheriff's Office to get them work, I will furnish you the names of pay-off guya who settled with Rabshaw on the slot machines and booze Joints in the county. NatehWeinberger and Tony/Fitepatrick are some of the pay-off guys*, It is also interesting to note that Dolores Delaney has advised that Alvin Karpis carried on his person a credentials card bearing hig photograph, which card was issued by the Noonan Detective Agency. She stated that hie reason for carrying this was to show it to police officers in the event he were ever stopped for questioning. Noonan has dered any knowledge of the manner.-in which Karpis obtained this card, On Pebruary 24, 1956, Mr, W. oft Harper, Operative in Charge of the United States Searat ent in Department, Cleveland, Ohia, was interviewed by Special Agent Ur. Harper stated that Hebebrand, who has never been known to have welshed on a gambling debt, °7C is said to be a gentleman gambler; that James "Shimny* Patton is entirely different, being a hard boiled and not afraid of anyone type; that when the Harvard Club was closed by the local awthorities information is to the effect that the raid was so planned as to give Elliot,Ness, recently appointed Safety Director of Cleveland, a political buildup. _As above noted, the allegation is made by Bernard J. Wolf, Lieutenant’ of the Cleveland Police Department, that the refusal of Special Agents to work with the police nearly resulted in a gun battle between police and GHen. In this connection, Officer Wolf has reference to a raid conducted by Special Agents upon the home located at 7009 Franklin b Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio, which was the former residence of Barry O7C_ Campbell, You are informed that it was through no effort on tha part of the Cleveland Police Department that Special Agents learned the location of Campbell, This information wea obtained on § mer 10, 1934, when callad ormer Special Agent advising him that she had seen photogrephs of members of the Karpis—Barker gang in the Cleveland newspapers on September 6, 1984 and that she recognized the photograph of & being that of who lived at 7009 Franklin
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