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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 3
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Cleveland, Ohio
June 87, 19359
HOMCRANDUW FOR INSPECTOR M. E. GURNEA
Bez TOLED) = GENERAL ORGANIZED CRIME
CONDITIONS
In order to get a complete picture of the crime con- .
dition in Toledo, Obie, for the present day, it ip necessary — ogg cigts se
to go beck to the year 1951., At that tine THOMASKLICAWOLI, | a 7
a son of o menber of the o} ® in Detroit, Mich-—
igen, cams to Toledo where he orgenixed the most yuthles
of hoodluas that the city of Toledo has ever
LICAYOLT, together with his lieufenants, TRA,
alias PY EMOLISH”, JOHN ORORG: and
proceeded to exact tribute fron b ries, night elabe,
poultry and produce houses, gas atations end barber shops,
for allered protection which they might afford then.
Their price for protection was a 10% cut of all profits
pede by these businesses or enterprises. Yhenever they
pet with opposition they would proceed to muxies the one
responsible for opposing them. During the xeign of the
LICAVOLY mod they murdered nineteen individuals in Tolede.
fhe ond of this gale cane im 1934 when LIGAVOLI anf his =
lieutenants were eonyicted for conspiracy to kill and were
giver life sentences in the Ohie State Penitentiary. ata a
Tn 1934 inte the (6Y7YC.)#
picture at Toledo. ose eperated the Cagina, ~3--"~
a night club which was frequented by some of the most... atin puttyo
potoricus orixinals ever known in the United States. It —
was at thie place thet well-known menbers of the BARKM-
at Bt. Paul, Minnesota, in
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