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Bugsy Siegel — Part 26
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——-HE PLAYED SANTA CLAUS
‘The cook was a friendly soul who didn’t see many people,
aince the Siegels didn't have many visitors, 9°
She invited him in and gave him a sandwich, She told ‘him
“the servants had all just been fired by Mrs, Siegel and that
they were going ta hire a new crew.
This gave Huie an idea for a plan which he promptly put ‘into
action. He went to the employment agency where Mrs. Siegel
hired her servants and represented himself as a fancy butler just
in from the South. .
Thig ail happenéd at the time Siegel was out on thé high seas
with the Countess Di Frasso on the famous Metha Nelson tip
to the Cocos Islands. Huie got the job.
You'll have to read his own story about how he played Santa
Claus for the Siegel children and waited on Mrs. Siegel's
parents and other relatives from | New York. Its 2 inbulous
yarn. .
“i. didn’t find out much about Bugsy,” he told ma “hovat .
the guy. was seldom home, It waa just as well he wast perhape.
I was a little nervous awben he was around.” ;
~ KISSIN’ STORY ROCKS SOUTH.-
Huie was the fellow who got the famous Kissing Jim Folsoin:
story for the New York Daily News which rocked the dear did
‘South to the cotton roots. _ 2!
He was a Navy officer. in the last war aid haw always been
to some didoes in writing and@ leeturing. .« | see
‘The New vat Viwitia is Ananced by Clendenin J. Soa
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