◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 4

96 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Apr 14, 1945 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang · 96 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
May 23, 1950 | ( bye) as born December 2), 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts can Citizen, He is divorced, ha n formerly married * known address of ese 3 reported that he has a WNC) CRICINAL ACTIVITIES ¥+ ye. __ (EXONXC) a one time was reputed to be a member of the notorious of Detroit, Michigan, which gang controlled a consider- able amount of the criminal activities in Detroit, Michigan and Toledo, Ohide However, when interviewed at one time by a Bureau Agent, denied that he had ever been affiliated with the Purple Gang, altho e admitted that he attended grammar school with JOE and B STEIN, brothers, who later became members of the Purple Gang and that”he continued this association by trading in bootleg whiskey with t with other members of that notorious gang during the prohibition era. vised Bureau Agents that about twenty-five years ago he left Detroit, Michigan for Akron, Ohio where he was engaged for approximately four years in the bootleg alcohol business before | he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, at which place he continued to interest himself in bootlegging activities on a large scale and subsequentiy muscling his way ~ into gamblin, inball, slot machine, and other rackets. 4 &» P ’ s (LY YC YD) f at , } Cena. ie S77sd OT a ee = Sach ay os Loosen - me perm ete cent oe _— Ree om, penne cee A SE NOE
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 47
Jump straight to page 47 of 96.
Reader
Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 3
Stay inside Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Organized Crime archive hub and the more specific Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
bureau
Related subtopics
Al Capone
37 documents · 2449 known pages
Subtopic
Bugsy Siegel
32 documents · 2877 known pages
Subtopic
Carlo Gambino
14 documents · 1532 known pages
Subtopic
Carmine Galante
12 documents · 1245 known pages
Subtopic
Abner Zwillman
7 documents · 600 known pages
Subtopic
Arthur Flegenheimer Dutch Schultz
6 documents · 166 known pages
Subtopic