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POON ae le MIRROR JUN 16 1949 4 Doorway to Death == For Bugsy Siegel ""===: (The Mirror todey begins aff In the rackets he was an review of the Benjamin (Bugsy)! Mate of such ill-famed celebritihs Stegel slaying, last in the Citizen] qe Frankle Yale, Joe Adonis, Witness plan series on unsolved pke) Buchalter, Jacob (Gurrah) Los Angeles murders) Shapiro, Mendy Weiss and Abe By HERE STINSON Gid Twist) Reles. | Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel an- a special niche, ‘H was We iriggerman or - pounced, immediately on belng} ~ scrpedo" for Charles (Lacky) freed of the charge of murdering a} y.uciano, the New York prost hoodlum named Harry {Big) tation czar. Greenie) Greenberg, that he was} In the late thirties the then becoming a gentleman. district attorney Thomas R. Dew- He was no longer to be/ &¥ began shis roughon-rats war-’ addressed as Bugey. fare against New York racketeers. , Bugsy took the hint and moved gut here, 3000 miles away from} weye To Hollywood and Beverly | Furthermore, he was going to #0 legitimate in his business activities. He had the looks, the awe de and the personality tol Hirctes Bugsy’s background Ww ve done jot_ generally known. His But ty was as hard for him| goubted charm, his Jooks and to go sitimate as it was for him to lose the underworld-con- ye hand with money fives) Yerred tag of Bugsy. gally, occupying a 35-room home | ‘There were too many years of id Holmby Hills. He gained the! | gangdom in his blood. “well-known sportsman, ” His entire background has not| The edifice erumbl been brought to light. It is —_— ‘kriown that he grew up in New ‘York and that one of his close j Boyhood friends was George Raft, ater to become the movie star. One of his earlier ventures was ® trucking business and while us occupied he got married and ithered two daughters. Became Rum-Ruaner From trucking it was easy ‘ o | enough for him to get into rum- YUN 17 1949 uiling and from that to graduate he flourishing New, York LOS ANSELLS HELD OFFICE [rac Of the late twenties ie ROUTCO TO Tes -| ——