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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 1

59 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Mar 29, 1927 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang · 58 pages OCR'd
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ee a ti tee ( FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION buen ssa} Oklahoma City, Oklahoma» weno, 22760 : REPORT MADE BY ' HECCAT MABE AT DATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE ckle, Gity, Ckla. 1/10/36 12/19,20, 30/3 “TTL. ~ CHARACTER OF CASE WRNOAN SUBJECTS, * Identificatia iAJleged Members Purple Gang, (Fingerprints} i i | | | I ! €¥hOPSIS OF FACTS: “sPPROVED _ etroit, Michigan} : a All gambling establishments in Tulsg County, Okla. have been closed due to a Grand Jury investigation in‘econnection with the death of two men occurring at the Sheridan Club in the early. part of December, 1935. Offiears of the State Burean.. of Criminal Identification and Investigation state that ~ there has been no indication that the persons wanted for ': murder at Detroit have been in the vicinity of Tolsa, wy. % G . i [JERENCEs | Letter from Detroit office dated Recerber ay 1936,. Laer : ote ee Ter Lo 7 a ray at bev ATLS: At Tulsa, Oklahoma, For the general information of the Bureau and the Detroit of- fies, gambling activities in Tulsa County, Oklahomy were suspended in the early | pact of Docenber, 1935, and All habitues not being arrested have departed for | rerts unknom. These activAties were suspen due to a Grand Jury investiga- tiua in connection with thg murder of serena oe former police officer at. | Tulsa, Oklehoma, and Lewi ppan, special. employee of ‘the Unt: tates: Internal: Revenue Bureau, occurring at the Sheridan Club. Three employees f.this club “xe |, uve been indieted by the Grand Jury for:these murders, and ‘the- Grand, Jury has. cu - crdered the closing of the Sheriden Club and all similar establishnen ws eo ¥4 Agent has had frequent contacts w . COPIES OF THIS REPORT 2 - Bureau # = Detroit | ban BAM z ~ Oklahoma City MS Ox aL OY, Leroy ; z . amy tela ees Ory 8 rah * a wom ta Ey t
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