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Kansas City Massacre — Part 18
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such os the fact that Louie Buchalter 1 wes treiled i wid two Cars fron
Atlantic City, H.J. into Kew York City in the early part of Auguste we
Captain Appel wes informed thet the information submitted by this
informant was substantially correct. The Ceptein then seid that the
informant also advised that fugitive Miller is dead and that be wes
shot and killed in same hold up or stick up job recently end thet
by Tuesday, September 12th, but possibly e day or so later, the
faformant will be in @ position to advise es to the piece shere the .,
killing took place and the elreumstances surrounding same; elec the 4a
nem under which he waa buried and the plece of buriel, end further, f
thet the informant felt confident be eould secure thip information. (
The informant elso seid thet when Louis Buchalter learned hé wes .
being treiled he decided that Vivian Mathie was the cause of it en ¥
efter leaving Atlantic City he gave her money with which to get out
of town and thet he got rid of her sonewhere in Kew Jersey, just where - -"
the informant did not mow. She was supposed to go back and get her
ehild,
Just prior to the conference vith ‘the eight detectives
end Captein Appel on September Sth, whereat all the fects were outlined, —
the Kansas City office letter dated September Sth, referred to above,
was Tecoived and it fes noted therein that the Kansse City informant.
seid there wes @ woman named Essie Gruehcemp or some siniler counding
name who fe believed to be a sister-in-lew of irs, Betty Buchelter we
Pore thet she operetes « night club, is well known to ani liked by
the police and that there is to be a meeting econ in her eabaret or
night club, at which time the money in the Urechel kidnaping case ie
to be divided. The detectives were requested to secure informetion
concerning thie woman but the police informant sdvised thet Essie
Gruencamp or seme wamen of « similer sounding name was absolutely
' unknown to the Buchelter mob. In this connection, however, the ~
Mew York City office hed information that a brother of Louis Buchel ter.
formerly operated a cabaret in Bridgeport, Corns, but investigetion z
at thet point disclosed that no pereon by the name of Buchalter is °
known to police end detectives; that eccording to the city directories
“Ro one by thet name bes resided in Bridgeport, Conn. for the past five
years; that there have been no caberete or night clubs in Bridgeport
dyring the past few years. The information coming from the police
informant appeared so reliable that the Kansas City office wee —
telephoned on September Oth end requested thet their informant not
proceed to New York City as yet end the possibility of their informant
being connected with Red Tompkins in New York City wes suggested ané
the office of origin is checking on the possibility. of such connection.
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