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| | ae a nae oe pee ee TE Ate wor oa oe ae er e- ~t x t a RE UR Mr ne fe on #8 union were traceable to gangster and gambling co nnec. "Actions Recalled ; the syndicate ‘one hour After Slegel's Geath, 300 ‘mes away. T picked up Bedway tor questioning and released him ] with word that I wanted to gee hits on the following day. | However, he was suddenly removed to a Hollywood hos- pital for treatment for o heart condition, I found him there next day tying in bed bebind a ‘oor marked “No Admittance—Oxyzen!” I stepped in and talked briefly to Sedway, and left with word that I would return in the morning. But when morning came I discovered that the sick man had been put on a train and whisked off to Las I wanted, but he woultin't talk, About this time several newspaper articles mentioned . that I was investigating Las Vegas angies in the Siegel "killing, a fact. which annoyed the then chief of police of the Nevada city. He announced in a newscast that if he caught me in his city with a gun he would jock me up in jail, but his threat did not hinder our investigation. Later, the new operators of the Flamingo had a bitter battie, and one of them left the city in haste, under threat of death. I interrogated this man: on his arrival in Bev- erly His, but he was reluctant to talk, fearing gangland retaliation. — - When T attempted to obtain more details on the fight in Las Vegas, I found that the district attorney there was also the attorney for one of the combatants, a rather unusual situation. _ Siegel was killed because he would not comply with the Wishes of his associates who had invested miliions _ * in the Flamingo. My investigation tied him in with mobs . * in other cities and with international narcotics operators. ¥ came across the trail of half a dozen other. murders tions. ae Se ee abel hhc atu ‘ee * adsien tab pcr ik iy naa wee i ‘Vegas, where he stayed ppt his death a short time Jater. | I have always felt that Way -ha ormation i” ; : ai ee Sede Ring in Paris, But senica, ay = of it and said she couldn't think ef anybody ht want to do in Siegel. When Yast heard from nia was spending most of her time in Mexico. _- The fun-toving Countess di Frasso, who spons e mobster’s debut in Hollywood s social circles, die faAMaUCahy as ane Had Uved. Toe Goinitess, agri ars, suffered a fatal heart attack on a train as she 1 turning to Los Angeles after a gay New Year's cele? in Las Vegas in January 1954. © Ciifton Webb, the actor, found her lying in her 1 an bedroom fully dressed, covered with @ fullter ink Gout}, WeaTing & $175,000 diamond neckiace, ith $100,000 worth of pearls and emeralds in her luge Friends said she always carried her jewelry with rywhere. ; TOMORROW~Chiet Anderson tells how Greta s fled her mansion home to call the ae mb ew