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Cate samme eae TD ey ' Siegel's Gangland :: | Actions Recalled . the ayndicate one hour after Siegel's Geath, 300 miles F T picked up Bedway for questioning and released him “meverly Hills Is My Bea? er ra with word that I wanted to see him on the following day. ¥ ‘However, he was removed to a Hollywood hos- ; pital for treatment for a heart condition. | z I found him there next day tying in bed bebind a : ‘oor marked “No Admittance—Oxygen!” I stepped in and . talked briefly to Sedway, and left with word that I would : return in the morning. : : j But when morning came I discovered that the sick conten "age: , man had been put on a train and whisked off to Las train as she. | ‘Vegas, where he stayed _yntil his death a short tim lew Year's cele? « Ihave always felt that Moe way -hai forma’ To { I wanted, but he wouldn't talk. : lying in her 1 About this time several newspaper articles mentioned ‘tull. f that I was investigating Las Vegas angles in the Siegel ~ killing, a fact which annoyed the then chief of police of the Nevada city. He announced in a newscast that if he caught me in his city with a gun he would jock me up in fail, but his threat did not hinder our investigation. Later, the new operators of the Flamingo had a bitter battie, and one of them left the city in haste, under threat Of death. I interrogated this man:on his arrival in Bev- erly His, but he was reluctant to talk, fearing gangland retaliation. - When I attempted to obtain more details on the fight in Las Vegas, I found that the district attorney there was also the attorney for one ef the combatants, a rather unusual situation. =~ - * Siegel was kilied because he would not comply with the wishes of his associates who had invested miliions in the Flamingo. My Investigation tied him in with mobs , © in other cities and with international narcotics operators. I came across the trail of half a dozen other murders \q--which were traceable to gangster and gambling conneg; SE so ia fo D Eh Ow A RRR EN oe & ST Otte Coad . ee ee Mer ee