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oe ~ Lb — Buchalter at the time gave his address as the office of his brother, ‘Dr. Emanucl Buchalter. Buchalter sailed on the s/s "Mauretania" on rocecding to Carlsbad for treatment of a kidne September 22, 1933 b70 From London they proceeded by air from the eBorguet, France. Croyden Airport to Returning for the moment to Verne Miller, on October 23, 1933, it was ascertained that Al Silvers alias Al Silverman, a member of the Zwillman gang, purchased a Ford coupe in New York, which was abandoned by Miller in Chicago, following his getaway on November 2, 1933. Another racketeor associated with Buchalter procured an automobile driver's li- cense for wsiller, It developed that Al Silvers was one of the more important members of the Zwillman gang and the investigation reflected that on #ay 13, 1932, Silvers was picked up after he left a hotel and a gun was found in his car. He was acquitted, however, on a charge of carrying a gun inasmuch as physical possession was not proven. Silvers was charged in a complaint filed November 6, 1933, with conspiracy to conceal and harbor a Federal fugitive. However, on November 20, 1933, his body was found near Somers, Connecticut, draped over a barbed wire fence, aftcr he had been stabbed seven times in the head, once over the heart and had been strangled with his ovm necktic and a clothesline which had been knotted about his neck. He was unclothed but covered by a bloody blanket. Buchalter advised Special Agents of the Feder2l Rureau of Investigation on November 28, 1933, that he knew Silvers as a liquor operator; that he got along well with all the boys. Buchalter admitted he was in the State of Connecticut on the veekend of November nineteenth, at the home of some respectable people, where he participated in a week- end pinochle game. ' At this point Buchalter was advised, in the presence of his at- torney, that Verne C. Miller was a fugitive from justice and a warrant was outstanding for his arrest, whereupon Buchalter said, "No one will have anything to do with Miller now't and then added,"If Miller shows up in -, New York you'll know about it." On the following day, November 29, 1933, Verne Miller's lifeless body was found in a ditch in Cambridge and Harlow Streets, Detroit, about cleven miles from the cinter of the city, He | had been tied very securely in a jackknife position with his legs drawn close to his bocy and his arms pulled sccurely to his sides,~~His body was ‘wrapped in two apparently brand new blankets and an automobile robe of cheap material, All identification marks had been removed.