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Kansas City Massacre — Part 39

158 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Jul 15, 1953 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Kansas City Massacre · 157 pages OCR'd
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=-19 - - Reference is made to Division letter in the case entitled ; “Alvin Karpis with eliases, et al.; Unknown Subjects; Edward George Bremer - :. Vietim - Kidnaping*, dated 2/12/34, directed to the st. Paul office; toples |. = *. of which were sent to the Chicago and New york offices, which stetes thet a* 7 confidential informant had appeared at. the Division. and had given {nf emaat ion 7 ; Which indfeated that one Harry Schneiweiss,: 1345 Greenleaf avenue, Chicago,” mS : operated a place where members of the St, Paul and New York’ mobs would | stay “while en route between those two pointes. Tt hes been tumored’ from time to.” time that when the liquor intereats in st. Paul desired to: have. violence’ ata Bee , committed in St. Paul, these interests would call on New York gunmen to do | '. these jobs, and that this Bane thing would be reciprocated in New York, . Tite - Division letter indicated the nenes of various persons who this informant.” . thought might be connected with the Bremer kidnaping. oo . toma vy Pah bade ° we, as oyode ity ia . *, . at the address ». 1343 Greenleaf aAvenve, a “three-atory apartment putiding which has one apartment. ‘epparently on each floor, and which is @..-- “wery lerze epeartment of at Aeagt eight, or zine roi the. nae ot Spmetnotee Wen not Toung. an a re en ome vo ; “A 4 check et the Rogers Park postal Station revealed ‘that’ Harry te sehneineiss had left a forwarding address to 33 Worth ta Salle Street on - “ centenber 21, 1923," and thet carrier W.'G. Fortailler; who’ wes interviewed;": seid that this anartment also hed been occupied by a Mr. Shomberg, who eppar- ently had en office et 33 North La Salle Street, end whe had lived in thie @pertment aud had moved at the Sane time, Mr. _Portmiller. thought thet urs. schneiweiss had lived in thie pertinent end, thet she had hed several ehildres a living there. ue ° ory . WE ‘aye woe hits = * . . noe 3 ae shee a af "gn exenination of the Chicago getgpnone’ pirectory revealed . thet Beracr2 Shombors, attorney, ‘had offices at $3 North La Selle street;'_ oo, " telephone Stete 9335, and residence at 1343 Greenleaf avenue, telephone > -~ Briergate 5356. This directory also showed a Harry Shneiweis listed at -..~'- 1343 Greenleaf avenue, the seue telephone number. A telephone cell revealed __ thet the telephone Briargate 5356 had been listed in the beme of shomberg~- 1 put thet calle to this number had been referred to Whitehall 6040, which is’ - the 40 East Oek Apartments at 40 Eest Qak Street. ‘The 40 Rast oak Apertments | . ere now in Federal, receivership, and ‘the’ Receiver ia the American National | | Bank end Trust Co. of Chicago, which ie largely dominated by Jewish lnteresta. Si" Mr. cH. H. Dunbar fs the manager of this hotel, ‘and he stated thet mr. Shomberg P bad been at this hotel since ‘about ‘october, 1933, héeving’ been” gent, to! the) a hotel by’his director,” who is in cherge of receivershipa._ ae: Dunbar called © _. the telephone operator, who informed him that “in addition to mr. Shonberg “ . there were two men occupying the hotel room in question, one of whom was: naned Rerman Sherr, she believed,’ end a Relph Bloom.- The telephone “operator . stated that Schneiveise hed lived in thet apartnent with mr. Shomberg for some time but hed left about one month ago. Thie apertment is a two-room
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