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Kansas City Massacre — Part 18
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“ef Worlds Fair Visitors end bat ‘be could remember 2e one resenbltiag.. ye
any of thé ‘sus pests in this fese as. resi dente: ef thet: hotel, y so
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ire! z Daves, ‘desk elerk of the Shirley Apartmente® au ee .
Trexel Boulevard, stated thet no one who had lived et the Shirley . “7. --
Apartments resembled any of the suspects in thie case. She remenbored. oo
Fred Sridges very well and said that Pred Bridges had moved into tha
building because his mother had an apertment there, Shortly after
Fred Cridges moved into that apartment the manager of the apartment had
diacovered that Sridces* wife was, in fact, working in e house of prostie -
tution, called a sporting house by. Mre. Davese Bridges appeared to be
very pleesant, hivever, and ¢lwa:s seened to be well dreseed and to ha ve
Plenty of tine on hie hands, His wife seeed te be very quiet end no /.-
disturbance was raised at any time about the apartment by this couples
Bue to Hrs. Bridges’ activities, however, the apartment manager asked
them to leave, Mrs, Daves seid that she had leerned ef the conviction *_
of a nan by the nace of Gridces as a bank robber in Crom Point, Indiana,
and wondered rhether this could be t:e Bridges who formerly lived at that
address, __ _
hen interviewed by the Chicago 3 Police Bridges had also given
the addresses of 4128 Clarendon Avenue, Lakeshire Avenue, $912 Pine Grove |
Avenue, Apt. 102 {alias Fred Sric¢gs) and 017 Dakin Street as fomer ne:
residences, At 017. Dekin Street *r tdges said treat he Lived rith Thomes | .
_E, Tucker, who ie believed to bea “protherein-lawg It wes at thia YW
address that suspect Bernerd Phillips was supposed to have lived with —
Bridges prior and subsequent to the robbery of the East Chicago Bank.
' It. George FP, (Frank) Davenport, Assiatant Kenager of an apert-
ment et 4140 Drexel] Boulevard, was interviered and did not reco;nize any
of the pictures of the suspects, He suggested, however, that a likely |
Place to locate gangsters of thia type would be at the Hotel Carleon |
on Wabash Avenue, just north of 22nd Street, or at the comer of 43rd.
and prexel Boulevard, It will be noted in this regard thet the Hotel —
Carleon ie just one black from the Hotel Lexington, at which place Al
Genone at one tine made his dowmtowm heedquartera and thet this hotel —
ia located in the vicinity of the old syndicate dowmtom vice section,
as hae been detailed in previous reporte, 45rd and Drexe) Roulevard is
the corner where Joe Fusco operates the Drexel Beverace Distributing ~~~
Compeny. Fusco was a richt hand man of the Capone syndicate in the.
cistribition of beer on the south side, It is thoug t thet Fusco possibly
has connections rith the Itelien cane in Kanees City. Davenport, however,
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