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pe . - . 5, - ™ : ° é é . . . _ * ’ . ‘ ’ ‘ . ° - oo oe : ’ ’ . . , *. . . . . . - : . : . - ™ ~ Pal “ Oo Li + . -2- later the people who failed in business here wanted to buy the ‘Dusinese beck(it was not altogether legitimate bankruptoy) ané they could not so they with Italian owner of nezt building got together and Italian woman {s now engaged in same line-operat~ ing @ite store and since that time owner of this business and building hee been having lots of trouble. Her windows. have been broken number of times-young fellow tried to get in thru her bedroom window-held up our store a couple of weeks agbd broad Gaylite with number of clerks and oustomers in store and yesterday two of these 42 gangsters ran into my flat while I was alone-the back doar being 2pen-each with revolver in hand-when I askea them what they wanted ,they asked for quimsk way ont front door. I presume they just committed a job jumpea over high barbed wire fence up back staira thinking the flat was wacant, changed their shérts in downsteire heall,walked around blook to their oar in alley and left. This ie the most noforious locality (I think in the world) There ‘are no police on the beat. Squad car drives once in awhile. The police probably know who the boys are but they Dave n> warrants and folks are afraic to identify them. They shouic te pleked up as Vagrenta and hela in jail. Most of thir families are on relief. This is the neighborhood which is soon to be raced but until that time -this neighborhood shhuld get special proteocticu,eapecially those who are not Italians, . At the time the store was held upenel, bors knew of it and were standing in front of the store but sone would eall police and as the owner came in the robbers started for dosr-she grabbed one of them and they dragged ber on sidcerslk while she held on~-and threw her hard to ground-yet not one cf them standing there would even help her up-she ie neither yourg cr very satrong. But this is the neighborhood which has no p-lice on the beat. 97D | . \s\