Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1931 — Page 24

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BUSINESS MAN'S DEATH LAID TO GANG EXTORTION Terror Plot by Rothstein I Gunmen Is Bared in Los Angeles. By United Freet LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18.—A story of terrorism in which gangsters of the band headed by the late Arnold Rothstein hounded their victim to death was revealed today by District Attorney Buron Fitts. When their victim, Leo P. Berlin, former president of the Los Angeles Soap Company, died in a hospital here last May, after a nervous breakdown, the gangsters continued efforts at extortion upon his family, Fitts declared. He revealed the oearch for the gang Thursday when Harry Leslie, an investigator, was shot and seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of his own gun as he lay hidden in the rear of an automobile driven by the Bergin chauffeur, en route to a rendezvous with the gang. Search for the extortioners today centered in Los Angeles, and Fitts declared he had the names of three New York gangsters implicated in the plot. Loses Xotal of 875,000 Fitts said the men had extorted 875,000 from Bergin before he died, after a long term of terrorism in which they threatened harm to the Bergin children. In a letter written shortly before his death, the wealthy manufacturer told of a “high spade” poker game with associates of Rothstein —and narrated the “bleeding’ process employed by the gamblers. Bergin played a game with the group in a New York hotel in 1926. There he met and associated with Bob Goldie of Los Angeles, identified with the local gambling fraternity, but later a close friend of Bergin, and Eddie Rollins, known as a “high rolling” gambler.

Refused to Pay Check Concerning the game, Bergin wrote: •'I paid about $7,000 to Rollins on account of the games played with him when I was not well. I refused to pay one check. I did not have a chance, but I was afraid of his crowd.” For a year Bergin was not molested. Then the gang embarked upon a series of regular “shakedowns,” Fitts said. He was threatened on the street and by telephone. His car was forced to the curb and he was forced to write and sign checks “never for less than a thousand dollars” at the point of a gun. In desperation he told Fitts his -story in 1929, but asked that nothing be done at that time. “In case anything happens to me, you’ll know why,” he said. He then penned his “farewell letter” last December, explaining the actions of the gang, and recently it reached the hands of the district attorney’s office. Family Is Threatened Bergin’s widow and three children —Gloria, 13; John, 17, and Leo, 19 —were not molested until Sept. 5, when a letter reached their home. “This Is an honest debt and we must collect,” the letter informed the terrified widow. “Send at once $2,000 in the same old way, and remember the fact thgt it is between you and us. No double-crossing goes, you understand. The Boys.” By “the old way” apparently meant that the Bergin family chauffeur, who had driven the capitalists to several rendezvous with the extortionists, was to be entrusted with delivery of the money. Woman Window Breaker Held Alleged to have displayed her window breaking prowess at 804 West North street, Thursday night, Mrs. Lucille Hill, Negro, 31, of 701 North California street, today was held on charges of trespass. She was treated at the city hospital for arm and hand cuts.

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