The first, I Speak for the Dead, is a fictionalized account of Kansas Citys mob war, drawn straight form his clip file. He was one of those guys who was constantly fidgeting, or his knee was pounding up and down. As a result, the mayor does not appear in our documentary, The First Secret City. In the ensuing fight, the pistol fired a second time, striking Thiemann in the leg. Nash released Maloney from solitary and assigned him to the newly formed prison art class. Fact-checking the claims on case related to St. Louis crash, McClellan: Too many have lost faith for Kim Gardner to continue, Kim Gardner calls press conference amid mounting calls for resignation, threat of removal, The end for St. Louis top prosecutor? Beckman was a bodyguard in Wortman's organization. But the bankrupt, Illinois-based company, which had been sold to a foreign concern, remained an active corporation in Missouri for six years after its apparent demise; proof that there is life after death at least in the legal world. Moreover, Jerry Ray, John Larry Rays surviving brother, disputed John Larrys account in a telephone interview from his home in McMinnville, Tenn., in October. The next day, he says, they met with Joe Burnett, another criminal, at a Manchester Avenue bar: The reason we went there was to try and put some money into James pocket. Burnett referred them to safecracker and burglar James Obie OBrien. Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. But Richard Callow, the mayors longtime political consultant, does make a cameo appearance in the film. The mob continued to influence the police department, city hall, the county courthouse and the state legislature. By then, most of his running buddies from the joint were long dead, victims, for the most part, of their own malevolent ways. Maloney sensed that the feud was about to erupt into open warfare. Less than two months later, Maloney pleaded guilty to murder and armed robbery, and Circuit Judge James F. Nangle sentenced him to four concurrent life sentences. They are, from left, Morris Shenker, Murry L. Randall, Saul Cohn, Ray Foreman, James F. Nangle Jr. and Norman London. Sonnenschein was indicted because the ads drew customers and prostitutes across state lines, which is a federal crime. If you are young and good looking, you can count on being confronted again and again. At left is Dr. C.C. Jones and Maloney collaborated for months on the prison project, sharing the reporting and writing duties. In the mid-70s, some Star editors were even reluctant to print the word Mafia, Maloney later wrote. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. His stepfather, Julius Dutch Gruender, an ex-con, became Maloneys less-than-sterling guardian. People started dying. The Department of Energy conducted the first radiological testing at the facility in March 1989, which showed elevated levels of Uranium-238 and Thorium-232. A judge cited him for contempt of court. The defendants departed the federal courthouse, 750 Missouri Avenue, free on appeal bond. On his death, in 1915, the founder of the paper, William Rockhill Nelson, had willed the Star to his employees. After his mother suffered a nervous breakdown, the court remanded him to the custody of the St. Josephs Catholic home for boys in St. Louis, where he stayed for nearly a year. On Dec. 19, 1945, at the age of 14, Maloney ran away from home for the first time.I was prepared, Maloney recalled later. We are also conveniently located near shopping, dining, and entertainment options. Don't sit on the sidelines. Sam Reese, an older convict who had gained national recognition for his oil paintings and cartoons, served as his role model. Having written it, my next problem was deciding where to send it. That arrangement was still in place in 1972. Slay was a partner in Guilfoil Petzall & Shoemake for 20 years prior to becoming mayor. That arrangement was still in place in 1972. He didnt bring him to St. Louis. Testifiying against Bartolotta was FBI informant Jesse Stoneking, who the defense claimed had intimidated and entrapped the St. Louis organized crime figure. On one occasion Jones accompanied him to the Three Little Pigs, an after-hours caf that was a favorite of the Mafia. Talk about stares. Ray says his brother gave him approximately half the money and requested that he hold $10,000 of it in case he was arrested and needed to post bond. It was curious, too, how they seemed to hate Joe more than me, although our names appeared together on stories. We are also conveniently located near shopping, dining, and . At the same time, dissension was brewing in the newsroom. I was impressed. Subscribe with this special offer to keep reading, (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie OBrien, Ray says. A version of this story appeared in Illinois Times, April 2, 2008. She also acted as Maloneys liaison with the outside world. (Buel White/Post-Dispatch), On March 3, 1962, six days after the jury verdict, the bodies of Elmer "Dutch" Dowling (left) and Melvin Beckman were found sprawled on the pavement of Wolf Branch School Board (now Huntwood Road), north of Belleville. They also interviewed city and federal law-enforcement authorities and pumped confidential sources for information. 539 were here. It didnt take very long for that to happen. Play "The Decider" and let your (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), Frank "Buster" Wortman in a St. Louis police mug shot in 1933, when he was 28 years old and member of the Shelton gang on the East Side. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. Kane, county coroner. That J.J. Maloney survived is remarkable. She had eloped from the state mental hospital in Fulton and gone on another crime spree, this time with a 22-year-old hoodlum from Flat River. Maloney joined the newspapers staff after being paroled in 1972. Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66, recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. John will tell you he brought him [James Earl Ray] to St. Louis, Jerry Ray says. This meant that senior editorial staffers such as Menn, who had accumulated large stock holdings in the company, could negotiate with management on a more even level. James Earl Ray worried that Kings presence in the city might somehow block his getaway plans, his brother says, and he never provided any clues about what else was making him so uneasy. Its like the Mississippi River, says John Larry Ray. On the evening of Dec. 11, he picked up Rhodes in Columbia at an apartment she was sharing with another girl. Much of the authors personal knowledge of his brothers exploits is limited to involvement in James Earl Rays escape from the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City in April 1967, a year before Kings murder. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Liberty High student killed in St. Charles shooting could heal you with a smile, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol slams ump C.B. . Star reporter Harry Jones Jr. had hatched the idea of hiring him as a temporary consultant for an in-depth series of stories on prison systems in Missouri and Kansas. The same year, Maloneys byline disappeared from the pages of the Star when he quit the paper in a dispute over overtime pay. That J.J. Maloney survived is remarkable. Driving the car, and trying to hide his face with a handkerchief, is Dutch Dowling. More than a decade earlier, a federal probe linked RFT sex ads to the Eastside rackets. There were men in prison who were said to make more money each year from dope and gambling than the warden was paid. All of a sudden their stories would change. (Robert LaRouche/Post-Dispatch), The house that was built on the island. The Star published a verbatim transcript of his claims in its next edition. Less than two years later, on April 10, 1985, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reported on the federal trial of Bartolotta in East St. Louis. She visited. In the mid-70s, some Star editors were even reluctant to print the word Mafia, Maloney later wrote. While at the Register, he covered a series of murders attributed to the Freeway Killer, a name of his invention. In addition to the failed escape attempt, the prison administration cited Maloney for stabbing another inmate, manufacturing zip guns, using stimulants and committing sodomy. The blacks slept as many as eight to a cell. He would serve the next 13 years at the Missouri Penitentiary, in Jefferson Cityarguably the worst prison in the United States at the time. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 10. Just minutes from highways 367, 170 and I-270, the commute to great St. Louis employers like Boeing, Express Scripts, and Emerson Electric is easy. He would serve the next 13 years at the Missouri Penitentiary, in Jefferson Cityarguably the worst prison in the United States at the time. After the breakout, John Larry Ray says, he picked James Earl Ray up and drove him back to St. Louis. Before his contract expired, the Star hired him as a full-time general-assignment reporter. The plant at Weaver and College streets operates today as Magnesium Elektron of North America, a non-union company and a subsidiary of Luxfur Group of Great Britain. I had the connection.. Goldsmiths boss at that time was then-U.S. Attorney Charles Grace, who initiated wide-ranging probes of organized criminal enterprises during his tenure. Maloney joined the newspapers staff after being paroled in 1972. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. I did what all young poets do, I tried to write a nice little rhyming solution to all the problems of the universe, he later wrote. Wortman, Dowling and a third man were found guilty Feb. 26, 1962, of conspiracy to avoid income taxes. Through her encouragement, elderly attorney Mable Hinkley began to correspond with Maloney. In those days the Kansas City Star printed a poem on the editorial page every day, so I mailed the poem to the Star. When he visits the Big Apple this week, he will be discussing the assassination of another black leader, the Rev. She seemed fragile and shy, yet she wasnt. Their bodies were found sprawled across Wolf Branch School Road (now Huntwood). Post-Dispatch artist Albert Schweitzer made this drawing of the courtroom because no cameras were allowed inside. He claims that his brother was then fronted an estimated $50,000. Maloney added to his underworld knowledge in prison, where he befriended fellow inmate John Paul Spica, a St. Louis Mafia soldier. By then, newspapers called it "Wortman's Island." It was the beginning of a long-term relationship carried out by correspondence. In the book, John Larry Ray asserts that his brother revealed to him that he had been ordered to shoot and kill a black soldier in postwar Germany while serving in the Army. On one occasion Jones accompanied him to the Three Little Pigs, an after-hours caf that was a favorite of the Mafia. In the first installment of the series, Maloney gave a lengthy first-person account of life inside the Walls in Jefferson City. A version of this story appeared in Illinois Times, April 2, 2008. A few days later I received a letter from Thorpe Menn, literary editor of the Star, who rejected the poem but said he liked the last four lines. Pendergast was long gone, but his machine was anchored in place. When they parted, he watched his brother walk down the back alley alone. A Look Back Two mobsters found guilty in East St. Louis in 1962. By the mid-1920's he became associated with the old Shelton gang and was soon running errands for them. I told him, if youre looking for guns, I can get any gun you want from Ft. Campbell, Ky. Ray says his brother gave him approximately half the money and requested that he hold $10,000 of it in case he was arrested and needed to post bond. She corresponded. Before the details of that caper could be hashed out, however, the Ray brothers got jittery and split for Chicago. Beneath the outward generosity, however, Gruender was an angry and hardened man who drank heavily and sometimes abused his wife and stepson. Wortman later moved into a home built upon the island, reached by a wooden bridge -- and always guarded by gunmen. Stoneking, the informant who testified against Bartolotta and dozens of other St. Louis mobsters in the 1980s, died of an apparent suicide in Maricopa County, Arizona a year ago (2003). His second novel, The Chain, is based on his years behind bars, including his incarceration at the Missouri Penitentiary and the old St. Louis City Jail. But the mob kind of looked at Joe as a turncoat. Truth at Last is his intriguing but meandering account, a navigation of the uncharted waters of the two siblings lives. I had another change of clothes, a pound of fudge, a loaf of bread, 14 silver dollars, and my old mans .38 was buried in the bottom of the sack. Despite his preparations, Maloney was quickly apprehended after stealing a car and spent the night in the Montgomery County Jail. This was the town of Tom Pendergast, one of the most powerful Mafia/machine bosses in U.S. history, Maloney wrote. At the time, almost any local mobster was considered a suspect. His replacement, Harold R. Swenson, imposed extreme restrictions on all communications with editors and publishers to stop a book from being published by another prisoner, a notorious escapee. Its the smoking that eventually killed him. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. In the first installment of the series, Maloney gave a lengthy first-person account of life inside the Walls in Jefferson City. During a short parole in 1957, Maloney was arrested in Kansas City on suspicion of burglary and carrying a concealed weapon. The Kansas City Mafia wielded considerable economic cloutcontrolling several banks [and] owning ten percent or more of the taverns and nightclubs in the city. The home had been built two years before. Mayor Slay leaves office next week, after serving an unprecedented four terms. He brought him to Chicago. On hearing the bad news, Maloney vowed to kill Moyer and tried to escape. He chain-smoked. On Aug. 26, 1961, Maloneys girlfriend, Edith Rhodes, was murdered near Huzzah Creek in rural Crawford County, Mo. Beckman was a bodyguard for Wortman and Dowling. Last chance! Wortman was vacationing in Michigan when he was subpoenaed to appear in an investigation of the murder of J. Fred Koenig, a bookmaker who allegedly was angry that Wortman had taken over his operation. The photo caption doesn't identify individual pall bearers, but the accompanying article says they included mob big shots John Vitale, Art Berne, Tony Giordano and Louis Shoulders Jr. (Post-Dispatch), The defense team poses for photographers on Feb. 22, 1962, the day the jury began deliberations. If you are young and good looking, you can count on being confronted again and again. Seated at right, facing Mrs. Dowling, are county sheriff's deputies Edward Kowalski (left) and Vincent Neuner. Maloney thought of Menn as the father he never had. A prison psychiatrist who evaluated Maloney shortly after his arrival characterized him as a socially diffident individual who seems to take a half-humorous rejection of the whole affair. If Maloneys initial demeanor seemed inappropriately aloof given the circumstances, it didnt take long for his mood to turn into a malevolent rage. This was the town of Tom Pendergast, one of the most powerful Mafia/machine bosses in U.S. history, Maloney wrote. By then, the prison-bound poet and writer had been published in numerous other venues, including Focus/Midwest, a St. Louisbased magazine founded by Charles Klotzer, publisher of the Saint Louis Journalism Review. O'Brien knew the owner of the Paddock, Frank "Buster" Wortman, the East Side mob boss. Exposure to art ignited Maloneys innate creative streak. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), Douglas Keith, a fingerprint specialist for the Illinois State Police, takes picture of Melvin Beckman's car, in which he and Dutch Dowling presumably were shot before being dumped onto Wolf Branch School Road on the night of March 3, 1962. Moreover, Jerry Ray, John Larry Rays surviving brother, disputed John Larrys account in a telephone interview from his home in McMinnville, Tenn., in October. John Larry. After the Star ran a story implicating Cammisanos brother William Willie the Rat Cammisano in the Bonadonna slaying, members of the two families demanded to rebut the allegation, which was based on an FBI affidavit. After his return to Missouri, his parole officer committed Maloney to State Hospital No. The two returned to St. Louis early the next morning on a Greyhound bus. A week after the trial, one was shot to death along with his body guard. The second incident earned him his first stint in the reformatory at Boonville. The last time John Larry Ray visited New York City was in 1965. . The next day, Maloney returned to the newsroom not as a guest but as an employee. Menn patiently waited until 1967 before publishing one of Maloneys poems in the Star. Mugshot of Mike Lacey courtesy of the Maricopa County Sheriffs Department. Entering the store, he pulled a hunting knife and demanded money from Joseph F. Thiemann, the 74-year-old store owner. By checking liquor-license applications, Maloney determined that mobsters or their relatives secretly owned several restaurants and bars in the River Quay. St. Clair County sheriff's detective William Butler (center) and Illinois State Police detective Jerry Fitzgerald dropped by the bowling alley March 11, 1962, because Beckman's shot-up car had been found in the establishment's parking lot. Witnesses who might have confirmed John Larry Rays expanded version of events are dead. They both concluded that their fears were unfounded, says John Larry Ray. I was glad to get out of there. Before they departed, Jones overheard the bodyguard to Carl Corky Civella threaten to rape Maloney. I told him, if youre looking for guns, I can get any gun you want from Ft. Campbell, Ky. While in prison, Gruender met and befriended Elmer Dutch Dowling and Isidore Londe, lieutenants of East St. Louis mob boss Frank Buster Wortman. The time period investigated by federal prosecutors, 1994-2000, spanned the ownership change at the RFT. The next year, Maloney ran away again. . In the wake of the mob violence, the River Quay was all but abandoned, with only six liquor licenses remaining in the district, down from 28 a few years earlier. If you will make these promises, I will ask the warden to take you out of solitary confinement.. When he entered prison, Dwight Eisenhower was president; when he came out, the Watergate burglary had been committed. Sonnenschein must also hand over five parcels of property in Brooklyn, Ill., where the now-defunct Free Spirit Massage Parlor was located. Investigators also snooped around the secretive construction of a house, and lake surrounding it, southeast of Collinsville. Bonadonna was one of Maloneys confidential sources. In the ensuing fight, the pistol fired a second time, striking Thiemann in the leg. The conviction was only the second for the often-arrested Wortman, who had muscled to the top in the late 1940s with help from the Capone syndicate in Chicago. The housepainter soon introduced his young stepson to the underworld, taking Maloney with him on occasional visits to the Paddock Lounge, Wortmans bar in East St. Louis, which was a hangout for organized crime figures. Latest reviews, photos and ratings for Double Deuce Lounge at 601 S 10th St in East Saint Louis - hours, phone number, address and map. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), The island home of Frank "Buster" Wortman in April 1969, eight months after his death. Meanwhile, Menn had interested Random House in publishing a book of Maloneys poetry. Tasty dishes in East Saint Louis. Maloney then married a former inmate of the girls reformatory at Chillicothe, and they moved to Alabamabut the marriage fell apart. You never know for sure what is going to happen from day to day in prison. The report goes on to say that Berne told [Stoneking] that if Chicago wanted to buy property, businesses, get loans or some other such financial transaction it would be done through Rallo Construction Company in St. Louis.. Only in an institution can love hit that hard and that fast, Maloney wrote. Over the next year and a half, Maloney was put in solitary confinement dozens of times for attempting to escape, instigating a riot and other infractions. A day after he escaped, he was in Chicago that night, and I met him and John a day afterward at the Fairview Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.. So hundreds of men carried a knife or had one they could get to one in an emergency. At the time of his release, he had served 13 years of a life sentence for killing a South St. Louis confectionery owner during an attempted robbery. Gerhard J. Petzall, a former law partner of St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, was a director of Spectrulite Consortium Inc., which owned and operated an Eastside plant contaminated with radioactive waste. Dowling had been Wortman's right-hand man and was convicted along with Wortman on Feb. 26. Dowling was convicted of assault in the case, but he won a reversal from the Missouri Supreme Court. As a result, he was put in solitary four times and sentenced to the hole another 18 or 20 times. Although the property was listed in his estranged wifes name, Linda Sonnenscbein wasnt charged, either. In late 1967, the parole board indicated the possibility of Maloneys being released early the next year. Thiemann died as a result of the wounds he sustained in the fracas. Talk about stares. Red Apple BBQ & Lounge - 2112 St Clair Ave, East St Louis. Five more years would elapse before Maloney finally made parole, during which time Menn continued to support and encourage his writing. 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