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Bugsy Siegel — Part 21
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on prize fight yerterday by questioning of vari
NEW YORE, Dec. 20.-(UP-The ‘urn! .
district aitemeys office, trying to book found in the apartment of
blow the lid off the big town's young Paris. - :
sporte gambling, today sought to t He ty maid te bave entertained
rmin xyndica uently, tectives wan!
mantpuisted the adds on eet ~ to determine whether } he suppiled
day night's Madison Square Ger- party girls for foot Playera in
den fight in addition to trying to order to win their friendship and
fix the Giant-Bears championship confidence.
football game. - - The telephone conversation which
Sources close -to Dist. Atty. linked Paria and “Fete” to the
study was being made of the way by the district attorney's oftice to
‘the ons bounced up and down dur- have gone like this: ,
ing the few days before the welter- Paris: “You are my partner anc
weight fight between Charley Y'm looking to protect the office.”
Fusari of Irvington, N. J. and Pete: “He claims you are trying
Charley Taylor of Coalport, Pa. to throw the market id
The investigation centered on a] Paris: “What's he yelping! about?
man known as “Pete,” mentioned Be won $10,000 on the fijht last
in telephone ersations on &- night.” aa
teed would: eres toe eased The talk took place the nlorning |
‘ot trying to bribe two Giants play- the week Fuserl was Zito
j Era to throw the National oothal favorite. The odda dipped ta even
The trial of Paris, who was de- money, and went back up to & to 5
nied bail despite the attempts of a by ring time. Fusari won by @
powerful legal battery to get him technical knockout, t
out of a Tomba jail cell, was
acheduled to begin today in Gen-
eral Sessions Court here,
In their search for “Pete,” police |
Were checking om, Se ee banes |
:@ Bronx gambler with a police rec-'
ford dating back 26 years and in-'
cluding convictions for arson and
counterfeiting. Krakauer was said:
‘to be in a New York hospital =|
| ‘The cast of characters in the,
great football fix grew more bi-,
farre by the moment, It already:
| included five of young Paris’ clos- |
eat relatives, all with police rec-
| oras of one sort or another; a
parade of Eroadway party girls
who allegedly were used to enter- |
tain professional football players;
a high-powered criminal lawyer,
Caesar B. F. Barra: and the most
fabulous characters of ali, the:
anonymous big-money gamblers of
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