GANGLAND GRAFT
.'£85,000 WEEKLY IN CHIC ARGO •' /ft ’ i - ; ■/ ' CHIC ARGO, August 21. Documents in Jack Zuta’s deposit box revealed that of an £85,000 turnover from one week’s gang activities, all but £15.000 went to individual 'gangsters politicians, policemen, and ■'saloon-keepers, A fortnight ago, after being suspected of engineering the assasssination of “Jake” Lingle, the “Tribune” reporter who allegedly practised racketeering 4ln his spare time, Zuta liimSelf was murdered by machine-gunners. He was business manager for the -Moran gang, whisli bandied mostly everything •left over after “Scarface” Al. Capone had taken his share. Over the week-end the District Attorney and gangland were .searching feverishlv for two trunks which were expected to contain a great treasure in first hand information. Cancelled cheques in Zuta’s box included one for xixaOO to Municipal budge Schulman, - while there were several unpaid notes, signed by other judges and police omcials, each of £IOO or £2OO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1930, Page 7
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150GANGLAND GRAFT Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1930, Page 7
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