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CO LER MSS RRR SAT RR | Smiley was still crouched on ithe floor, ===) eer A neighbor, Lou Shane, who waa visiting at the home of Dr. iLyn Whiteman, 807 North Lin- iden drive, reported he heard the jshots and ran out into the street in time to hear a high-powered car roar away into the darkness. Shane said the shots were fired so rapidly that it sounded like machine gun fire. ‘ KILLEES IMPORTED, BELIEF Police believe that the job was pulled off by imported killers, who “knew their business.” Within 20 minutes of the shoot- lng the word of Siegel's death| had spread throughout the length lor Sunset Strip. The slaying quickly became the topic of the moment at the Las Vegas gambling casinos, Reports from Las Vegas were that the Flamingo lost over $200,- [000 in one night recently, and ‘that the backers of the multi- million-dollar venture teok a dim view of the red Ink column in the ledgers. Siegel's body was taken to the county morgue, and when police went through his clothes they Monica boulevard.” . MYSTERY CAR SEEN Martin Belousoff, of 808 North Linden drive, told detectives that for the past several months hej had noticed a small sedan parked | across the street from the estate where “Bugsy” was shot to death. “Thera was a man in if, dressed In working clothes,” he = he whi Bae 6 i t — found two l4-carat gold keys, a roe “He vena perk qhere ali ee ' can : ¥ sometimes, and often : plege fagtdqwed stayed there until very late at * night.” 2 Siegel, who had been active in He. the sporting world in California. and Nevada for the past decade, was once designated s “public enemy” by Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, during the latter's term aa district attorney there. Long an eastern gangland fig- ure, Siegel was charged in 1942 with being the’ West Coast chief of Murder, Inc. ' He was indicted by a Los Ange. les Grand Jury in 1941 for the underworld killing of Harry ‘Big Greeny” Schachter here, but he colorful career,|| “Bugsy” was arrested, tried and]! reed of “everything in the book— m. misdemeanors te murder—. ith murder predominating” lice said, ey The murder was the fourth | ALL IWPOR MATION CONTATRED MCUASSEFIED: HERETS 1 UGS 31,52. D6L Bh pare 7 £58 . DAT. LOS ANGELES HERALD & EXPRESS ATED ~ JUN 21 1yq/ 124