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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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“y ' Betréit, Mich * June e268 e1LiSe e Mredcifgpar Hoover WV va , Dept.sof Juatice Asin; Washing tore? oe! ve MOUS | COMMUNTOA, TICE SP ENVELOMS ATVACR ET, Dear Sir; How can you expect ua to run our business so that we oan pax incere tye, 4f you allow this msn Robert\Fisher,reputed front man for the Furple Gang te viclate the Federai lave by bringing in here severel prints of the fight p ictures and then holding us up for theme! Formerly the prints were made here which gave somebody some werk ri least but now they are so greedy that thoy bring them all in and when vw effer to de the same they threaten us with violence. How come that you p rotect then by letting thom do this in viclhetien of the law if we are not protected against theme We think thet this is an outrage and you should investigate thir ir tier right now and not let these gangstere make thousends every year at thie racket and pay no income tex,get away with 1t.! We are thusting you will not let enyon a see this letter because we dont want no stink bolbs put in our theatres or else the beck blown up,or eve WOYSO eo Everybody here seems to know that is going on except your men who rhowlc be giving us protection and we dont dare to complain to them locally. One of these days there is going to be something serious happen and there will be fine stink about ite If they oan bring in the prints why cant we? Wo oan buy them v/irteht but they wort stand for us bringing them in,eo it is by your departrart thet, they have we where they wart use: Detroit Theatre Crnerte.e RRCORDE Dd of eral. i INDENTED baad he ——
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