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4 + tetas starry ty WHT Me he tee! Li Shen on thé night of Nov. 2, - $499, a burly man who used the ~ pulled to a stop in front of house. Here accounts differ. esses said he was shot by men In a dark sedan, Later j Stepped from the shadows of a thedge, fired and escaped in a car Be ven by a second man. Whichever way was, he “was dead with three bullets throagh the head. : a Yaformation from his wid. “ew, Ida, led te New York and ‘within 24 hours “Schachter” “had been identified as Big “New York” sourtes “also sup-| Hed the motive—in writing to ke he had pot only eaid he $5000 but had threatened the law about Murder, to" he Aldn’t get it. “hs point a a eat ke and sportsman” named mn ‘(Bugsie)~ Siegel was troduced to a public other ‘celebrities and sports haa hoan ehumming he had been chumming a, an 7 ‘Bugste a Contrast . | ‘Bugsie was a contrast to Big “Greenie in all ways but one. He smoothly dressed, handsome, uave and fairly well educated. t, like Big ‘Greenle, be was ied in with Lepke. . ;Pollee announced they plang 2 question Bugsie. Apparen x bdwever, they did not at that tee his home at 1805 Vista ae + fnformation’ was that the ak York to Holtywood. . Murder Team |. @filicers deacended on Buguie's #fon, found him hiding ix tha attic and dragged him off i0 _ Mi} on 2 murder charge, arrest had been brought about by the “singing” before a grand jury of two Lepke pais, Al enbaum and Abe (Kid Twist) Reles. Reles later won fame ag the ,“einger” who sent Lepke to the chair in New York and aided the break-up of Murder, Inc. He a0 the and died The hoodlums’ story was jegel had Promised Lepke Rie Cveente “WPanne: { of Ble Greenile. um had been the courier ene ifm b murder guns from New yom . On the murder team had” "been | Bugsie, Frank Carbo, a West. Coast fight manager, and Harry (Champ) Segal, owner of a Holly- wood barber shop which was the hangout of sport figures. Bugsie had driven Carbo to the spot in a: stolen dar. Segal had followed in| Bugsie’s car to “crash” any pur- suit that started, Carbo had been the man behind the gun. : The case against Bugsle seemed open and shut, ‘and. the law had the extra advan- tage of having him . safely behind bers, Carbo and Segal were being sought. - PURE ee ae aie oeetas However, there appeared an un- expected legal hurdle, ° Dist. Atty. William J. O'Dwyer ef Brocklyn, now ‘New York's ,, mayor, announced they could not Nallow ‘Tannen Ahrens ‘tan inenbglm, ano pum and ‘Reles to ae wet es 2 a bilan dimes, sca, cal feome ww 108 ATEELES to Ao SUH. 2940, nearly a yoar later, that” +r00m Holmby Hills man -~ jater fell “accidentally” from top of a New York buliding Dismissal: of the indictment gainst Bugsie resulted. Barry | (Champ) Segal promptly wurren-: dered and ‘had: his Indictment, washed out. © ¢ Frank Carbo, the fight manager, | was not prompt enough. When he - surrendered, O'Dwyer had changed his mind and was ready te enna Tanmanineem 20a the anaes “_ testify + Gea Ut WY Lee Cit The ee and jury ‘immediately re- indicted Bugsile, and he and Carbo went to trial for the murder of Big Greenie. - Haifway through the trial the ceoaurt dismissed the “charge against Bugaie be- canse the only evidence con- necting him with the murder was the story of Tannen- ly baum. Carbo's trial went of | ; bat resulted fn a hung fury. | The murder of Big Greenie| went back on the unsolved list. . Benjamin (Bugste) Siegel went } on to an inevitable Anish, (The Mi rrow will j outline the Siegel murder) | ‘