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2940, mcarty a year later, that ‘Sfficers deacended on Bugute's room Holmby Hills man; ton, found him hiding ix the stele and dragged him olf So. on @ murder charge, Bugsie resulted. Harry against i none had been pr waht A iChamp) Segal promptly wurren-: ind jury of two Lepke pale, Alj]® Tannenbaum and Abe (Kid Twist) wepned ont e] les later won fame ag th. Whe the “singer” who sent Lepke tof{¥8% Rot Prompt “Opes d the cbair in New York ang aide {e,_ Surendered, ODwyer had the break-up of Murder, Inc. He igo later fell “accidentally” from ‘the top of a New York building and died. The hoodlums’ story was S iegel had promised Lepke |the ut of Big Greenle. Tanne: had been the courier br: the murder guns from New York to Holtywood. | Murder Team), On the murder team had been | Bugsie, Frank Carbo, a West Coast fight manager, and Harry (Champ) Segal, owner of a Holly- wood barber shop which was the hangout of sport figures. Bugsie had driven Carbo to the spot in a stolen car. Segal had followed in Bugsie's car to “crash” any pur- suit that started, Carbo had been the man behind the gun. ple The case against Bugsie seemed open and shui, and. .the law had the extra advan- tage of having him safely bebind bars, a Carbo and Segal were being sought. > : However, there appeared an un- expected Jegal hurdle. ‘~ . Dist. Atty. William J. O'Dwyer of Brooklyn, now New York's mayor, announced they could not allow ‘Tannen’ nd Reles to wight, bought a paper and headed Zor his home at 1805 Vista Dei Mar Ave. 7 > He pulled to a stop in front of to send Tannenbaum ¢o the coast to testify. * The grand jury immediately re- indicted Bugsle, and he and Carbo went to trial for the murder of Big Greenie. Halfway through the trial | the cemrt dismissed the “charge against Bugsie be cause the only evidence con- necting him with the warder was the story of Tannen- baum. Carbo's trial went o * hedge, fired and escaped in a car Sriven by a second man. Whichever Way if was, he “was dead with three ballets ., through the head. < Xmformation from his wid ew, Ida, led to New York and “within 2% hours “Schachter” “fhad been identified as Big Greenie. . New York” sourées also sup- Hed the motive—in writing to _ bal resulted tn a bring fury. The murder of Big Greenie went back on the unsolved list. Benjamin (Bugsie) Siege! went }' lon to an inevitable finish, (The Mi; rrow will outline the Siegel murder). layboy and sportsman” named jamin (Bugsie)~ Siegel was | Bret introduced to & public other; ;than the celebrities and sports ‘aeyres he had been chumming! “with, = . 7 Bugsle a Contrast Bugsie was a contrast to Big Greenie in all ways but one. He smoothly dressed, handsome, ve and fairly well educated.’ -But, like Big Greenle, he was] tied in with Lepke. |. '% lice announced they plani question Bugsie. Apparenfly, re ever, they did not at that TaD gare ee geek Br eaR oheg q is H ily