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...About [June 1929] he and a fellow named Rocco Delarme operated a beer distributing business with offices at ... East 149th Street. They got a telephone and ran a private extension over to the Third Avenue speakeasy so that the defendant could direct his business from there. They operated under the name of Harmon & Delarme, distributing beer on a major scale. ... In November of 1929 he entered into a partnership with Stevens and Ahearn [two bootleggers indicted with Flegenheimer but missing] and began operating on a very major scale...
...manager's car the two men sped through East 133rd Street to St. Ann's Avenue, turned north, and continued un challenged, stared at by dwellers of the shabby neighborhood. At 149th Street they abandoned the car, changed to a taxicab, turned into Boston Post Road. At 169th Street a motorcycle policeman opened fire on them. He fell mortally wounded. A fireman picked up the police man's revolver. He, too, was shot down. Another fireman, out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, came into range. All were wounded, the child fatally. Bul lets...
...Formerly the 149th, a unit of the famed-in-War 42nd ("Rainbow") Division, of which General Summerall commanded the artillery brigade. Last week the "Rainbow" held a reunion at Columbus, Ohio, with addresses by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker and Maj. Gen. Summerall. Lieut. Col. William P. Screws, 12th Infantry, of Baltimore, was elected president...