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! LOS ANGELES in Siegel Mystery’ ;, Beverly Hills Chief Says He Knows . Killer but Needs More Evidence: - "There may be “startling developments” inthe next few ‘Gays possibly leading to a solution of the 16-month-old; Snurder of gangster Benjamin (Bugsie) Siegel, Beverly Hilis| lice Chief Clinton H. Anderson told The Times yesterday. Anderson, who Saturday relat- ————— — | “éd in New York that he and the fF” sa Boot a ‘Beverly Hills Police Department Gunmeng were plant have known for some time the ghrubbery| around Vittion’ , Adentity OF Siegel's slayer, arrived f Giecer'y gl friend, end ‘Bi “here yesterday morbitg with noflwas taken to that house by ‘éxplanstion as to why he chose to § friend and guided to the couch on |. divulge format 3000 9 Which he was slain from a living- naan Now tom mation : room window, it was anid. “He sald the information was f= 5!¢8el was killed by a fusillade perfectly true. And while he; “SAn eyewitness to the shooting ‘was White-halred Allen Smiley, a the killer “beyond the}-xlose Siegel associate Jong sus of a doubt.” ‘Needs More Evidence fo arrest can be made or’ the oe ‘Killer named, Anderson continued, Smiley ts at present a defend: until sufficient evidence has been Mit in a deportation trial in U.S. ‘uncovered “to wrap this case up.” 7 istrict Court here. He ts 2 Ca- "He did have this much to say 7-nadian citizen, . gaat te dying poet ares Ley Anes ie ie Tat wi iputation Siegel was killed on orde ABD eal underworld figure. dicate out to the police.” The threat was made in order Bs t Slegel could get the “big Ee ots to kick through with more : Money” to support his Las Ve mbling resort, the $6, Mamingo Club, which was flout 9 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OCT 19 1948 ne