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ed on oe ‘But een Police (Jail ail : suspec ‘Rasmussen admitted the}, risoner was delivered persanally ry H. Leo Stanley, chief bf the istrict attorney's Bureau of \n- ijvestigation, _ [| Brancato was ‘trought in the Stanley and one of ofr men” and has been subjected to some inten- Waive questioning. But the law's tightlip policy held from the Beverly Hillis pre- cincts where Biegel, ganglord of iJthe underworld, was rubbed out by carbine fire last June 20, to the lowest detective bureau av- Rhority in Glendale. No ‘one waa talking | about Bran- Papit reliable sources sald this ts one the law believes is “it” been filed down so finely it rattled Uke » sub-machinegun frem the idriveway next to Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills manse. ‘While the copsiwere mum about Brancato’s role in the Siegel rub- ijout, they admitted a man with {that name had been fingered ear- Hier as trigger man in an armed 'Jrobbery at Fresno, Last Jan, 6 the teletypes out of ‘VFresno “droned out the bulletin that Brancato was wanted by the DA there for armed robbery. The suspect is a squat, swar- thy, black-haired man, 34 years old and browa-eyed, according to the Fresno description. He was de- (Continued op Page 24, Col. 4) 7 oe nee ee SE : sade FUSS VSS rA em y Sogte ier SEE ever drag 8 ony in killing of Bugsy Siegel {Continue@ from Page 1) scribed as & as 5 feet 8 inches tall weighing 180 pounds, Beverly Hills’ Chief of Poli fe ©. H. Anderson disclosed th: prior investigations had toned up the information one of the men involved in the Stegel slaying came from Fresno, Anderson denied knowledge of the suspect, but on the other hand said he was “interested” when told of Brancato. Arrest of Brancato was a sur- ‘prise development, indicated Wil- iam E, Simpson, district attor- ney. Simpson, out’ of town all day i yesterday, said he “hadn’t heard” | =} of cato’s arrest and hadn’t 3 beer aware of any developments| which would have led up to th tapture of a suspect in the few days. Photographers were barred front! Brancato’s cel and no outsiders were permitted near him. Police| letlings referred all queries up-| ward—and few of the bigshots. were answering any telephones, But there was one source of in-! formation—the last place the cops} ||Were counting on—which was: !|ready to confirm Brancato's t Pinch, and the fact that the ques- ’ lee me tions ‘were going to be thick nd fast about Bugsy's sudden death. ‘That was the Los Angeles un- rid. The fact that police were po hush-hush about Brancato they tried to tuck him away incom- municado in Glendale emphasized the point they were convinced they had the triggerman. And Brancato was sweating un- der the questioning aimed at find- ing out who ordered the wooden kimono for Bugsy—w.o were the new weed funderworld. characters who put Gicgel_on the spot.