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po oa 7 f wa Cc 7 Drexel Bcuhevard, the Graceton Hotels ‘yn order. to ect. orth ‘the. eee ‘activities of Agent Baum in connection with ghie portion ef the ine 35: - Veatigation, a brief statement of agent's activities will be included, - Agent had for a number of days devoted his time exclusively to a sure.’ age ah, Yeillance of the 4200 block on Drexel Boulevard in view of the telepionie =” on conversation with the Kansas City Office, as is reported in repart of? thia agent dated July 7, 1933, In consequence, when Special Agents : Keating and Madala discovered that one Oacar Bloom, who Wae residing | f in the St, Clair Hotel, Chicago, Iilineis, had called the Graceton Hotel, Drexel 0780, on July 5 and 7, Agent Baum proceeded to this eddross on |. Joby , Taly 8, 1933, with Lieutenant Arthur Katt of the Detective Duresu, who.” be fe in charge of the Hoodlum Squad, Lieutenant Eatt was acquainted with’ the manager of the Graceton Hotel since about @ year ago when he had been succeseful in apprehending a band of pickpockets, who had endeavored e. establish this emall hotel as their headquarters. a _ pre “‘Lfeutenent Katt and agent. Boum interviewed Mr. end irs. Oe Rowe Le B. Eckroed, who age this hotelg Mra, Eckroed remembered that a@ man posing as Dr. arren had received telephone calls from a party . — by the name of £1 t the St, Clair Hote] and that he had also eee wt deavored to talk or nad talked with one Fritz at a Nevada exchenge © vet numbere She stated that this Dr. Warren.was supposed to have come from Role Leavenworth Penitent lary end that he registered into’ the hotel. on. June 8, " awe et » lao an ex-convict, recently released from Leavenworth, Kaneasé’’.> s Charles White hed hie leg in a cast, having been ehot, ao it was 125): reported, when he had been apprehended ebout sighteen months defer es, £ : White said that bie wife formerly operated a beauty shop on South ©. / Michigan Avenue, This Charles White.was, in fact, convicted for viola tion of the White Slave Traffic Act and the supposed peauty shop en.” ’ Michigan Avenue, which €{d operate as such, was really « lure used in . Gonnection with operating a call house to furnish houses and parties *: . ..@f prostitution with a sufficient supply of womeng .Jt seems that these*.:: ‘two parties had been referred to the Graceton Hotel by Br. ¢. L. “Leindecker _ ‘who operates the Tudor-Ellis Hotel at 43500 Ellie Averiue, which is’ about. ;.0. ‘a block from the Graceton’Hotele Lieutenant Katt informed agent that-;'- Leindecker Was well known to him and he believes wuld supply him with *: -any information desired, although Leindecker is supposed to bave served 273 a term in some penitentiary for a violation, poseibly of the Prohibition - -- laws, ‘and in consequence had some tendensy te protect criminals, Mrs, yt bey Eekroad aaid that Leindecker had informed her that he would stand good ~ for White's board for three days, White stayed for three days and then i left, but Dr. Warren, who was supposed to have treated White in Leavenworth t Penitentiary, stayed ong Warren had delivered to her a railroad ticket ’ fissued by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad on June 15, 1935, calling for transportation from Leavenworth, Kansas, to New York City. The unused. portion of the ticket wae held by Mra. Eokroad and showed