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ee But Glendsie's Chiet of Police Rasmussen admitted the prisoner was delivered personally by H. Leo Stanley, chief bf the district attorney's Bureau at jn weatigation, |. Brancato was “trought in the afternoon, said Rasmussen, “wy - ee ee Stanley and one of oir ch a0 has been subjected to some inten- give questioning. But. the taw’s “ tehttip ‘policy held from the Beverly Hills pre- cincts where Siegel, ganglord of the underworld, was rubbed out ‘Sy carbine fire last June 20, to the lowest detective pburean a- ‘WRhority in Glendale. No one was telking about Bran- ta, - But reliable sources said this is ‘ one the law believes is “it” @—the man who pulled the trigger "ton the carbine which must have iT been filed down so finely it rattled jdiike « sub-machinegun frem the ‘idriveway next to Virginia Hill's Beverly Hills mange. ; While the cousiwere mum about Brancato’s role in the Siegel rub- out, they admitted a man with {that name had been fingered ear- Hier as trigger man in an armed arobbery at Fresno. ; 4 Last Jan. 6 the teletypes out of “Breenn “droned out tha bulletin dthat Branzato was wanted by the GDA there for armed robbery. The suspect is a squat, swar- thy, black-haired man, 34 years the Fresno description. Hie was de- f (Continued op Page 24, Col. 4) a Bast, anf carried on the police old and browa-eyed, according to/[t | wos apy Sop Mee ’ y ever dee on &- on Apols ‘of pecre brancato, describe } fon lin killing of Bugsy Siegel {Continued from Page 1) scribed as 5 feet § inches tall weighing 180 da, : Beverly Hills' Chief of Polifle C. HE. Anderson disclosed that prior investigations had turned up the information one of the men involved in the Siegel slaying came from Fresno. Anderson denied knowledge of the suspect, but on the other hand Said he was “interested” when told of Brancato. Arrest of Brancato | Was & BUr- n or ee wees Try prise development, indicated Wil- liam E, Simpson, district attor- hey. Simpson, out of town all day ‘| yesterday, said he “hadn’t heard” | -}of Brancato’s arrest and hadn't :|been aware of any developments which would have led up to th taptire of a suspect in the inst few days, Photographers were barred fro Brancato’s cell and no outsiders Were permitted near him. Police etlings referred all queries up- ward—and few of the bigshots were answering any telephones, But there was one source of in-| formation—the last place the cops | were counting on—which was' et lL Per, on wet oe PU Ue tm ready to confirm Brancato's Pinch, and the fact that the ques- tions were going te he thick and to De Luca fast about Bugsy’s sudden death. That om the Los Angeles un- Tl . The fact that police were po hush-hush about Brancato they tried to tuck him away incom- municado in Glendale emphasized the point they were convinced they had the triggerman, And Brancato was sweating un- der the questioning aimed at find- ing out who ordered the wooden :|Himono for Bugsy—wao were the Underworld. characters who put Gicgel on ‘the the spot. ) F é 4 tee ae net TOOL SRST, ECTS ee oe os a ao Pe Sr