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Eliot Ness — Part 1
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Meus. for the Director ~li- Sn] 20S
"Habshaw is telling the race track people that 4f they do not employ
Noonan, Sheriff<Hanratty will not let them race, The reason of thia
is, thet Rabshaw and Noonan and Joe“Ball are going 50-50 on the
profits. When Rabshaw was in the Police Department and even now, as
you know, he did not have a friend". "This Rabshaw has been double
erossing Hanratty ever since he has been in office and if they use the
power of the Sheriff's Office to get them work, I will furnish you the
names of pay-off guya who settled with Rabshaw on the slot machines and
booze Joints in the county. NatehWeinberger and Tony/Fitepatrick are
some of the pay-off guys*,
It is also interesting to note that Dolores Delaney has advised
that Alvin Karpis carried on his person a credentials card bearing hig
photograph, which card was issued by the Noonan Detective Agency. She
stated that hie reason for carrying this was to show it to police
officers in the event he were ever stopped for questioning. Noonan has
dered any knowledge of the manner.-in which Karpis obtained this card,
On Pebruary 24, 1956, Mr, W. oft Harper, Operative in Charge of
the United States Searat ent in Department, Cleveland, Ohia,
was interviewed by Special Agent Ur. Harper stated that
Hebebrand, who has never been known to have welshed on a gambling debt, °7C
is said to be a gentleman gambler; that James "Shimny* Patton is entirely
different, being a hard boiled and not afraid of anyone type; that when
the Harvard Club was closed by the local awthorities information is to
the effect that the raid was so planned as to give Elliot,Ness, recently
appointed Safety Director of Cleveland, a political buildup.
_As above noted, the allegation is made by Bernard J. Wolf,
Lieutenant’ of the Cleveland Police Department, that the refusal of Special
Agents to work with the police nearly resulted in a gun battle between
police and GHen. In this connection, Officer Wolf has reference to a
raid conducted by Special Agents upon the home located at 7009 Franklin b
Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio, which was the former residence of Barry O7C_
Campbell, You are informed that it was through no effort on tha part of
the Cleveland Police Department that Special Agents learned the location
of Campbell, This information wea obtained on § mer 10, 1934, when
callad
ormer Special Agent advising him that she had seen photogrephs
of members of the Karpis—Barker gang in the Cleveland newspapers on
September 6, 1984 and that she recognized the photograph of
& being that of who lived at 7009 Franklin
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