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GUATING TRIE: MITNESS MEETS ANG DEATH . A. Cleaner War Figure Taken for Ride, Dumped in Ravine rice tex, 54, 108 ensational evidence in a 1939 ‘cleaners and dyers” war urder trial here sent five} en to life imprisonment, pyesterday was found slain in| ppinglend fashion near: jan Mateo. Sprawled in a ravine two miles ast of Oak Cove Park where he Yad been dumped after being ‘taken for a ride,” he had been® “Shot twice in the head and twice; ain the chest with 2 38 caliber, automatic pistol. Formerly engaged in the clean- xing business and a key figure in} SLos Angeles’ murderous acid- yand-bomb-throwing cleaners and: dyers battle in 1931, of late he! Broa operated a radio parts store ir 2170 South La Brea avenue! here. MADE TRIP—— Ydentified through an airline ‘receipt found in his pocket which gave his address as 5230 West ‘Olympic boulevard, Wilshire, Station Detective Robert Swan learned from the slain man’s widow that on Saturday he flew to Oakland to purchase radio, — i \ parts, watchman in an eastside P, was shot and led December 15, 1981, seven = TESTIFIED _Malter testified concerning the pistol used to slay, the watchman’: and told the court that Hd) Rolling, one of those found guilty, had threatened: . “If you ever tell police what you know about that gun— | youll have a bullet put through - your head,” Those sentenced to fife im- prisonment wer@id Rollins, Chi- im; +d Freedman and of through terror the cleaning and dyeing industry here. b Freedman, who was serving a term for the jewel robbery of. Actress Mae West when convicted: lon the murder charge, is still in’ San Quentin. The others have been paroled. Fisher is serving a Six months’ sentence on a nar- coties charge in the county jail’ here. —_—_ AA Nae ~ Soy pre