Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1951 — Page 2

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TA wpe rer oI ; . ? y 1A g Secret Service Was My Job— | ay | Lustig Rated As Master Criminal, Diés in Pri 4 : 5 Count Lustig Rated As Master Criminal, Diés in Prison : y - > ® - . . X . tbl mes Brabbed Lustig and dragged him|learned from Collins was that Lustig had been, we uncovered’ a Texas Sher iff Hiffad Among Swindle Victims; out into the street. Lustig had swindled him, too! {$1 million counterfeiting plant. t Prisoner to.Flee House of Detention in N.Y. | Bystanders saw what they Is $ Dy io0 no FOUR |thought was a daylight brawl, in frauds began to come- to light. bills, internal revenue stamps, . N : x ni (which an apparently wealthy, (Many persons reported he had whisky labels and passports. We By FRANK A. SECKLER, as Told to Wendy and Everett Martin \dignified man wad being as- “taken” them for $100,000, or arrested its operator, Willlam I HAVE BEEN asked many times whom I consider the. 'ii.q by a ruffian, meaning me. more ; |Watts. But master criminal of them all, I can always answer without hesi-| , on 0 swung at me with a] While Lustig was still in the/there. tation, for I have no Seubla, He was Robert V. Miller, alias Vietor handbag, others shouted for the Federal House of Detention, I in-| On Sept. 28 he was arrested in anny, allas Count Victor Lustig, |police. The other. agents fhen|terviewed a wealthy Canadian Pittsburgh by Federal agents. He ik I a man Whose Saroet was so fabulous its details SOWA joined the fray. They helped me lumber man, who had made an ap- was brought back to New York greatest swindler of modern a 2 [take Lastly is. d in the Fed ;|Zointment him mee Lustig New| and lodged in the Tombs. * . . | e was lodged in e eral! . 8 a ! d times. . His frauds netted him| EDITOR'S NOTE: This in |, (V0 SOU, 0 0 boo ciontgent 1 told him Lustig was 10] sereeerag i ras, Sonvicted and millions of dollars. He was known| the fourth of an exclusive se- .. 14 never Keep him there. | jail. sentenced to a long term in Fedto have committed innumerable| rio by one of the Secret Serv- (We laughed at him. But he knew nw eral Penitentiary. He died there. crimes we were never able to lay| most efficient undercover (his powers better than we did. A| THE MAN TURNED on me In February, 1936, Mae Scheible at his door. dv === (few days later, in broad day- and tongue lashed me for saying "2° Arrested, charged with transHg preyed upon law abiding’ operatives, light, he escaped. “a fine gentleman like Count, Porting girls from Pittsburgh to cilaens and eriminale allke. Hol ow York. subway station Tooker Tung wa a crook. The. Ga |New York Cty for immoral purAl Capone, Jack (Legs) Diamond,| We #eized more than $51,000 In| . MUCH HAS BEEN written dadlan showed me $50,000 1a cash POST Jules (Nicky) Arnstein, Big Biijjcounterfeit bills and” printingiabout the escape. A great deal he was eager to give Lustig tol

and a man known as {Joseph Patrick Ryan were In-

Dwyer and many others. His "'2tes he had placed there. of it is at variance with the facts, bind the “deal.” |dicted in the Southern District

: At the time, Mrs. Mae Scheible,' Lustig obtained extra bed sheets! On Sept. 20, when we raided a sweetheart was Mae Scheible, the : g ed sheets | ’ {Court of New York on 15 counts Queen of the Madames. He de-|3!/a8 Mary Briggs, alias Billy merely oy giving an incorrect | Palisades Ave. apartment Ini... i51ation of the,Mann Act. It frauded her with the others, and Scheible, famous for her chain answer when he was asked by a|Union City, N, J, where we knew .s discovered that Mae, Lustig’s

{of houses of prostitution, was liv-| porter how man heet | | made her like it. - | po y sheets were] | - he # uw au ing in an apartment in West 74th needed in his dormitory. He saved QJ; 4 S . . [21d Sweetneast had oR annual in HE WAS No. 1 man in our|St- She owned a flashy Cadillac. |the extra ones, until he had nine. | im ror pring; | $100,000 a year she had Bot Tor book of suspects in such cases as| . nu Out of these, he braided a rope. . . . ported to th Roe | the Elwell shooting and the mur-| ALTHOUGH HE was Mae's] On Sept, 1, he entered a third- Series in Times {ported to the income t

| tors. She got a four-year term in der of movie «director William sweetheart, Lustig borrowed the! floor lavatory, dropped hs I Y H got y Te ou How

Desmond Taylor, We were satis- car to take another woman on a rope’ out of a window to the | Federal Prison for tax evasion. | fied he was the “finger man” who trip. We promptly received an Street below and prepared to | Later, she was linked to Lucille betrayed Legs Diamond to his'anonymous tip from a woman descend. He saw pedestrians stop-| [Mallish alias M. Ferrell, alias J. gangland murderers, that Lustig was using the 74th PIDg to look at him. | Forbes, who was Indicies in 3 I will not recount all of Lus- St. apartment as a headquarters.| Instantly, he began to go |vice ring case August, 1936. T : tig’'s crimes, But I will tell about We always thought Mae Scheible, [through the motions of a window |case, in turn, disclosed a chain o his eventual arrest by the Secret burning with jealousy, was our cleaner, He went down, from| command from Lustig, through Service and about his escape informant. {floor to floor, going through his| Scheible and Mallin, right to from the Federal House of De- We tapped Mae's telephone Window-washing act. When he! {Charles (Lucky) Luciano. tention, in New York. He was the wire and “staked out” near the reached the street, he ran around] But to me, Victor Lustig was first prisoner ever to break out apartment. We were not sure{the nearest corner. Several | {top man in the modern world of of that formidable jail. (what Count Lustig looked like. minutes went by before the con- |erime. He was the only one I 1 brought Count Lustig in. I!He was adept at disguises and|fused bystanders gave an alarm. ducing series written ex- |.yer heard of who “swindled” the know there are others who have had been described in many aif-| Lustig had disappeared, Slusively for The Times {law. Once, when arrested in claimed that distinction. Since I ferent ways. But we knew the Then began one of the country's) y Ann Willlams-Heller |

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{| Texas, he talked a Texas sheriff treated him without kid gloves, automobile, greatest manhunts. Law enforce- noted author and lecturer he always seemed to respect me, On an afternoon late in August ment agencies across the land| He told many people I was the 1935, it drove up in front of Mae were alerted to search for the! man who dragged him off to jail. Bcheible's place, Two other agents “Count.” Mae Scheible was] The U. 8. Secret Service wanted and I converged on it. One of brought in for questioning! So the “Count,” because as a side them rapped on a side window was Arthur (Dapper Dan) Collins, | line he was financing a counter-'and motioned the driver to open supposedly , one of America’'s| feiting racket, In a Times Square, the door. When he did so, 1/greatest confidence men.

f {into releasing him, into mison reducing, {appropriating $123,000 in county {funds and turning the money over {to him for one of his “schemes.” No one can top that!

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