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SIE EGEL HINTED $15 ad aa os N ‘WEDI DErURE IV ” Spenfamia’ {Bugsie). “‘Btegel’d jno way linked to the munderend June ¥6, four days-betc ve Bagel debts dust a haa al his has ot been questioned thy *#y | was 35, fs tye patra ne. Bever days |o ¢ Attorney General's staff. | Th azO eee, have totaled a. Stagger But disclosures made yester- Veen ve drawn ont aA hin wait aL ee Ve WE ES wee “a an : day indicated that Siegel's finan-| vada: ’ disclosed last night |cial troubles ran into the ‘seven-! -Ghief Dist. Atty. Investigator jdigit class—and that the §150,- z. i oe on the basis 5 of 000. debt represented only “nforma ven him by an - {fraction of his money difficultles.|cause of insufficient funds. In fenuted arlegd of the slain gam- [Chief Special Agent Walter{each case the Del E. Avene Con- Bier. 5 Fo .jLentz of Atty. Gen. Howser’s: atruction Co. protested, s ‘two ” thecks office declared: “Sa ata meeting with Dist, Atty. |’ med Vy Siege! and totaling ~we Delleve these are. mot sempeon, Sheriff Biscalluz and Notations on ne for $50,000 was returned a bee ‘That corréborated Stanley's ra involves the ‘entire West. “It is cause ef insufficient funds. The port that the racketeer aley told|not #0 much who was killed but orintane Kael eternal meee ee ee eee eee SPREE. Aaa SLOppea payment a friend, one week before’ = -DEDIEG MH, OF Capilano. m the $100,000 check. -‘|death that. he had to. raise/“Gambling, narcotic smuggling, Both had been made out ta|“$1,500,000 — or hide out. xame-| bookmaking, prostitution - and Del E. Webb, wealthy Phoenix|where.” Then Siege! said, ac-|°ther forms of crime are here. eontractor whb built: Siegel's Fla- cording to Stanley’s informant, Leniz intends to hold similar “malrigo ‘Club*in' Las Vegas,” ac-|“But I wouldn't know awhere to meetings with officials of all oth- hide”. : er California counties. . gigording . +o. ‘the .<Atterney Ge SOrcing wanonney uate. era's office, no, The murdered gambler at that ‘Only possible new hint io the ‘Reached . ‘at Vancouver, “Be; time averred he had a 30-day murder was a gold key found on : he. sidewalk beside the Small Sswhere ‘he flew Yesterday, Webb deadline fer acquiring the huge t PoWaAS ‘quoted in a dispatch as ex: |sum. He told Stanley's informant Claims Court on Temple St. in the Civic Center. It resembles “pregsitig isurprise -at nbws of|that he had “borrowed up to the the checks, He said he knows /hilt” from all his friends, and pockets and bear She an i nothing of the checks and as-|that “no bank would lend anoth- man’s initials, The finder, Her- iserted that-he certainly would/er dime on the Flamingo” Fhave ‘known. about, them. had ‘cause, despite its ae bert L. Michel, 346 N. Vermont}. Ave., handed ft to the Sheri’ bureau of investigati aT zg urey peer. given te him ‘as head fit was a’ comparatively small es- Eo: e construction company.|tablishment.. ; F z-Webb said he expects to go tod MF the two shecks whick cere Chief Investigator “"t [y¥ictoria,. B.C, today and -willlre:mrned in San Francisco after Sea ihe and te ides Web Feontinos. to Portia nd, Or, to- ed in San Francisco after!ney’sa office and his aides vow ri going throu igh the Bay. City clear-| tioned Slegel’s- dentist, ‘ba dead * ' linghouse, the $50,000 Paper is and other associates, They j ne of three’ owners ‘ot the|dated “May ; fered fo definite ! idlke to" LNew York Yankees, Webb {s fj “The larger dears the date Killer, LOS ANGELES TIMES, JULY 2, 1947, xy Re: BENJAMIN "BUGSY" stdanh, ez aa AC MISC. INFO CONCERNING, CRIME SURVEY ae Ss eS SU aaa eee gy (L.A. 62-2837) _ ar re a eam