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Louis Lepke Buchalter — Part 4
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| Wreng foot in the Fall of 1915,
$35,000 ||
Reward Offered
-Clues'to: Lepke ”
- If you porsess any infor-
mation concerning the where-
abouts - of . Louis Buchalter
‘(Lepke, the Leopard of the
Rackets), telephone any of
the following numbers:
New York City Police Head-
quarters, SPring 17-3100.
Federal Bureau ‘of -In-
vestigation, REctor 2-3520.
District Attorney Thomas
E. Dewey, CAnal 6-5700,
City Editor, New York
Journal and American, DRy
Dock 4-8000.
Your information will be
treated confidentially, and
after Monday, rewards total-
ling $35,000 will be paid for
Buchalter’s capture—dead or
alive. The City Editor of
this newspaper will see that
any information concerning
this man is relayed to the
Proper authorities,
they are keepizig it as
the Leopard’ keeps. His
current hiding place, ~*~ DEM:
CLUES TO HIDEAWAY. - :
Should a man set out to win the
“dead or alive” award on Lepke’s
head where should he look?
There are a few authoritative
hints which may be offered here:
The Leopard restricts himself
to kosher food. He might be
‘that melancholy fellow with the .
long nose and somber eyes ata
table in. your favorite Kosher
restaurant, :
The Leopard is a lover of the .
legitimate theatre, not musical
comedies but the high brow
shows. ‘Perhaps in the darkened —
Seat next you—
PRACTICES GOLF SHOTS.
The Leopard and his intimates
went in for golf, but usually. only
to the extent of driving practice,
letting the caddies retrieve their
of intimates. It wasn’t a nice one.j Shots and obtain the real exer-
Lepke was like that. cise. Perhaps that gentleman
[PEvonion TO STEP-SON. OTe cece practice tee—
: T..e Leopard loves the race track
Lepke’s devotion to his step-son|and betting on the Ponies, but the
(the youth has attended’ select chances mare ee itont aeainst es
seeing at Saratoga week
bot m an erent wees rat any other tracks this side of
th os ° wth t N the Mississippi, Too dangerous,
e ilove another famous New eve, |e
|¥ork racketeer bore for a son of|A P. INOCHLE FIEND, __ y.
Yaron, now ‘Wi Gordon, the beer} Pinochle is. Lepke's vice. Fo}
le:
on, now winding up. an 11- years he has played it hour after
year income tax sentence to the/hour with his cronies. Like Dutct
ederal Penitentiary or, possibly,|Schultz again, OOPS ek cont
ready paroled. .t . The Dutchman sat. ‘up, -whole
‘Vf One of the great human interest/days and nights at pinochle witk
. tories of the Prohibition Era wasla pair of his fellow lamsters when
for neary two years, the town was
lor the afternoon that the beer being turned upside down. for-him
—and Dutch was €
lerous booze wars, came. from|apartment at
ieee to weep at the coffin of|gsth st. A
son, Teddy, 19, killed: in an When, and ‘if,
tomobile accident. : ‘lg
FBI {TALKS LEOPARD,
“We gives his orders quietly,/
they! forgets about them. Bu
o® help the gent who doesn’t
out those orders!” Says a
ranking FBI official who ‘has
{ closely studied Lepke, the man, | , coe “
for the sole purpose of ambush- {KEPT LOOT OUT OF BANKS, _ no ent.
ing the ambusher,. “RE one ‘brand of industrial extor-/0dd million peop €, as
{| “In two sentences, you have a tion which bears the Lepke-Gur-|Jungle in which to hide 9 53
{Penetrating insight into the meth-|rah trademark is’ credited witti| Do old pinochle players p
ods of No. 46043 in the Rogues Yielding each $2,000,000 yearly, _,{other game the same?
Gallery of the New York City Po- But ‘| ” (Follow, this Jascinati
lice and No. 21156 in the Gallery|covered by Dewey that the pair| 4 tomorrow's Nein York;
of the FBI, a AEP ot ity Aj a
That’s the hard side. ar
| Then one learns the apple of
the Leopard's eye ty his adopted
son, Harold, now 18, the age when
his forter father got off on thé
7
money?” the FBF official w; .
as made a particular studs of -
he case was ask Reig. -tbinaiheynte
, “That is something te “woul
“father not answer,” he said,
with a marked reticence in’.
marked contrast to his ‘gen-.
trosity with personal details
gbout Public Enemy No, 1. ° iq
AThus ‘it is anyone's guess as to
whether J. Edgar Hoover's G-Men’
h@ve unearthed or brokerage
ts ‘that long | to | the
(MARRIED A WIDOW. .
That’s the soft side. wo,
The Leopard has no children of
his own. His’ -wife, Betty, was a
widow, shifting: for herself and
her boy, Harold, when Lepke mar-
ried her, Mrs, Buchalter is a stout.
on Madison ave, RSE ra 0 B
Recently, according 0 .G-Men,| LI “Norra: DANBER, ge 2
alled upon a surgeon to im-| "Dewey" igatorgpenff Yo the 60-LS0/ -A ct d
proveNver contour. The Leopard, theory hes "Beryen eryenl * is pwn SEC
aye had had an aifectionate|b ‘
oF Betty Buc Wit!
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