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Kansas City Massacre — Part 39
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- Reference is made to Division letter in the case entitled
; “Alvin Karpis with eliases, et al.; Unknown Subjects; Edward George Bremer -
:. Vietim - Kidnaping*, dated 2/12/34, directed to the st. Paul office; toples |. =
*. of which were sent to the Chicago and New york offices, which stetes thet a*
7 confidential informant had appeared at. the Division. and had given {nf emaat ion 7
; Which indfeated that one Harry Schneiweiss,: 1345 Greenleaf avenue, Chicago,” mS
: operated a place where members of the St, Paul and New York’ mobs would | stay
“while en route between those two pointes. Tt hes been tumored’ from time to.”
time that when the liquor intereats in st. Paul desired to: have. violence’ ata Bee
, committed in St. Paul, these interests would call on New York gunmen to do |
'. these jobs, and that this Bane thing would be reciprocated in New York, . Tite
- Division letter indicated the nenes of various persons who this informant.”
. thought might be connected with the Bremer kidnaping. oo
. toma vy Pah bade °
we, as oyode ity ia
. *,
. at the address ». 1343 Greenleaf aAvenve, a “three-atory apartment
putiding which has one apartment. ‘epparently on each floor, and which is @..--
“wery lerze epeartment of at Aeagt eight, or zine roi the. nae ot Spmetnotee
Wen not Toung. an a re en ome vo ; “A
4 check et the Rogers Park postal Station revealed ‘that’ Harry
te sehneineiss had left a forwarding address to 33 Worth ta Salle Street on -
“ centenber 21, 1923," and thet carrier W.'G. Fortailler; who’ wes interviewed;":
seid that this anartment also hed been occupied by a Mr. Shomberg, who eppar-
ently had en office et 33 North La Salle Street, end whe had lived in thie
@pertment aud had moved at the Sane time, Mr. _Portmiller. thought thet urs.
schneiweiss had lived in thie pertinent end, thet she had hed several ehildres
a living there. ue °
ory . WE ‘aye woe hits
= *
. . noe 3 ae shee
a af "gn exenination of the Chicago getgpnone’ pirectory revealed
. thet Beracr2 Shombors, attorney, ‘had offices at $3 North La Selle street;'_ oo,
" telephone Stete 9335, and residence at 1343 Greenleaf avenue, telephone > -~
Briergate 5356. This directory also showed a Harry Shneiweis listed at -..~'-
1343 Greenleaf avenue, the seue telephone number. A telephone cell revealed
__ thet the telephone Briargate 5356 had been listed in the beme of shomberg~-
1 put thet calle to this number had been referred to Whitehall 6040, which is’ -
the 40 East Oek Apartments at 40 Eest Qak Street. ‘The 40 Rast oak Apertments |
. ere now in Federal, receivership, and ‘the’ Receiver ia the American National
| | Bank end Trust Co. of Chicago, which ie largely dominated by Jewish lnteresta.
Si" Mr. cH. H. Dunbar fs the manager of this hotel, ‘and he stated thet mr. Shomberg
P bad been at this hotel since ‘about ‘october, 1933, héeving’ been” gent, to! the)
a hotel by’his director,” who is in cherge of receivershipa._ ae: Dunbar called ©
_. the telephone operator, who informed him that “in addition to mr. Shonberg “
. there were two men occupying the hotel room in question, one of whom was:
naned Rerman Sherr, she believed,’ end a Relph Bloom.- The telephone “operator .
stated that Schneiveise hed lived in thet apartnent with mr. Shomberg for
some time but hed left about one month ago. Thie apertment is a two-room
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