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...roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat at Acra, N. Y., where his ten-room house was guarded (until police raids) by machine-guns, is still guarded by flood lights which sweep every approach...
...Brooklyn garage once owned by "Vannie" Higgins. They arrested Klein because a Buick car in the garage had blood-splattered upholstery, contained a discharged pistol cartridge and blocks for running it over a harbor stringpiece into oblivion. Tipsy and garrulous, Klein said he was living at the Acra estate, had been wakened by strangers the previous morning at 4 a. m., told to drive the Buick to Brooklyn and find one Fred Witcher who would help him dispose of it. They were to split $50 for the job. After obtaining the blocks, he had spent his $25 on drink. Police...