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LOS ANGELES 7 parm OCT TS 192 : Beverly. Hills Chief Say S He Kriows af Killer but Needs More Evidence: “There may be “startling developments” in'the next few “Gays possibly leading to a solution of the 16-month-old! ?Saurder of gangster Benjamin (Bugsie) Siegel, Beverly Hills| ': Police Chief Clinton H. Anderson told The Times ; yesterday. Anderson, who Saturday relat- = —— ed in New York that he and the as ‘| ns ” ‘Beverly ‘Hille Police Department “have known for some time the - identity of Siegel’s slayer, arrived ‘ere yesterday morhiig with no éxplanstion as to why he chose to » divulge “this information 3000 which he was slain from a living- _ miles from home. °.- - - _ room window, it was said. "5; Slegel was killed by a fusillade “He said the information wat oe “high-caliber Hed hy & tu as he " pertectiy ‘true, And while he ‘felaxed.on a couch in Mies Hill's . named no names and promised no [t" e, 810 .N Linden Drive, on 2: immediate arrests, he said that a une 20, 1947, 2 Ris investigation and the “tapping ;-> An eyewitness to the shooting <@f underworld sources” had ree Was white-haired Allen Smiley, a sc yezled the killer “beyond the wisse Stegel essociate Jeng gus ne dow of a doubt.” * pected of wide gangland oonnec, = ‘Needs More Evidence tons . ‘{itter named, Anderson continued, 7: ; 8 until sufficient evidence has been warit ina deportation trial in US. ~pncovered “to wrap this case up.” 2 Mistrict Court here. He is a. all B poe aid taping: much to say ur e ee, “Siegel was killed on orders He late 308 with a on, Angeles as 5 ftom an “international under- Sp eastern underworld figure.: Phreatened to talk and. sell the ediately taken control of gang- othe th out to the police.” - Hland a activities cpalts Han a ie : ssenters, principally Harry (Big The threat was mugde ‘in order % ednle) Greenberg, who was algo Siegel could the “big 5 E nat “and killed Nov. 22, 1939... © @hots to kick through - with more : arte was indicted for” Honey” to support his Lag Vegas 2 ; mbling resort, the $6,000, seer ters, murder at His sable f amingo Club, which was foun 34. I 4 Mpring financially. 0 . ge FEDERAL aA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OCT 19 1948 Fer sie