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June 6th, 1930.
Mr. C. G. Fisher, • f''
Montauk Beach, L. I.
New York.
Dear Sir: .
Mr. Horbin came over to the office yesterday and told me they
had disposed of all those things in one lot. He was of the
opinion that it would not keep until fall. He claims that he
had to stand a loss on this transaction and i will take the
matter up in detail with you when I see you next month. •
The Primary Election held here Tuesday June 3rd, was a success t
as far as we were concerned. We elected our entire slate with
the exception of two, McCaskill for•County Solicitor and Railey / ••
for County Commissioner, 3rd District, and these two .wi ll run it
off in the second Primary June 24th. It looks as if we will elect 4
them both.
We had plenty of opposition from the home guards down here,
including such people as Red Snedigar, Judge Frank Katzentine,
Ben Shepard and others. They were working for Pine and Swink,
but Hawthorne, our State Attorney beat Swink by 2500, thereby .
giving him a plurality. i
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Our Citizens League organization elected all five of the • '
Executive Committeemen on the beach, which gives us control. •
I consider this an important step in perfecting this organization.
I understand another group of men are trying to get up• a similar
organization, but with little success.
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In my last letter I told you I would try to find out how Capone
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was operating on the Beach, and who was taking care of him. The
Island Club opened this past winter January 15th under a new
management, and Capone has one-fourth interest 'for which he paid
$25,000 to the present owners. He also had a one-fourth interest
in the Floridian Hotel gambling room, in which he installed crooked
gambling devices. He had two Chicago gun men stationed in this
• room at $40.00 a night to protect it from any outside interference.
• He also owns the controlling interest in the South Beach dog track,
and Carters gambling house, as well as Albert Bouche's Villa Venice,
He tried to muscle in at the Deauville Casino, but was refused, and
after some kind of a threat, some men were brought from New York to
protect Deauville from Capones crowd. ,
The pay-off for gambling on the beach this winter was as follows; •
Dan Chappel, our recently elected representative from this district
was the collector from the Sherriff's office under the guise of •
attorney for his clients, and any gambling house opening in Miami
Beach had to have the 0 K of our City Manager Renshaw. .
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Harry McCarthy, Renshaw, and other Councilmen were the ones who
r• seemed to have control of these privileges from the City's
standpoint. •
The Roman Polls Casino was raided one night this winter by private •
detectives, and all the gambling paraphanalia was taken out, and•
• the owner Frank Dineen sent word to the Sherriff' s office that - •
if his rambling paraphanalia was not brought back to his place by
the following day, he would have somebody in jail, as he was paying
$1000 a week protection, and he would not stand for a double cross.
The next day the paraphanalia was returned to his place.
Rahph Kervens, a bootlegger was highjacked of 300 cases of whiskey
by: the Sherriff's office, the whiskey being•.'taken to Hialeah and
stored in a barn where the bootlegger who lost it, located it, and
went with his own trucks and gang to recover it. While they were
loading it the Hialeah police arrivet and placed them all under
arrest and took their liquer to the $ialeah police station where
the Sherriff' s office came and took 100 cases, and sold it to the
Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. This. was.reported to the government
and they made an investigation, but somebody brought them off.
The above incidents will show you the futility of trying to rid {
the community of a man like Capone, with our present City and
County officials.
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• I have some records in my possession which I. will show you personally
when I arrive there, of things which I am sure will be of interest
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'i Regarding a reward for Emma Olson, Lincoln Hotel maid, I have
• taken the matter up with Mr. Kunschik and he suggested we give
her $25.00. !During the season, I had this matter brought up at
a meeting of the Hotel Managers and suggested that there be a IVO
reward offered, to any employee giving valuable information of .
this character. However my suggestion was ignored and nothing
done about it.
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Yours very truly
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P.S. I also learned from the police stationed at Capones house,
that they did not have any orders to arrest Capone at any time. •
.-They were told to call Police headquarters when he went out and ••
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to take •license number of cars visiting there.