Ratings. In 1948, he equipped it with the novel luxury of air-conditioning. The records show that Petzall continued to be listed as a director of the corporation until 2003, and his name still appeared as a counsel for the by-then non-existent company until 2009. The next day, Maloney returned to the newsroom not as a guest but as an employee. In November, St. Louis Post-Dispatch staffer Michael Shaw reported that Sonnenschein was sentenced to a year in jail in federal court in East St. Louis. More than a decade earlier, a federal probe linked RFT sex ads to the Eastside rackets. 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. There is no doubt now that John Larry Ray helped James Earl Ray escape from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but the devil is in the details. Maloneys prison record listed him as 5-foot-9 and 145 pounds. The St. Louis mobster and federal informant died from a gunshot wound to the head. They both concluded that their fears were unfounded, says John Larry Ray. Having written it, my next problem was deciding where to send it. 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). 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. David Moyer, who confessed to the slaying, first told authorities that the girl shot herself and he had fired a second shot to end her pain. This time he made it as far as Hannibal before crashing a stolen car. He had his demons, says Mike Fancher, an editor who worked closely with Maloney, but I know that for the time that he worked for the Star he did some absolutely amazing work that I dont think any other journalist could have possibly done.. 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. The brand varied with the decade: L&Ms or, later, Marlboro Lights. During a short parole in 1957, Maloney was arrested in Kansas City on suspicion of burglary and carrying a concealed weapon. Readmore storiesfrom Tim O'Neil's Look Back series. Maloneys good fortune was twofold: He had belatedly benefited from the prison-reform movement of the 1960s and also from the unique ownership structure of the Kansas City Star, then employee-owned. After his fourth escape from Boonville, juvenile authorities transferred him to Algoa, the states intermediate reformatory, where his behavior worsened. I tried to contact OBrien but I couldnt find him, says John Larry Ray. 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. She visited. A sheriffs posse pursuing the fugitives heard the shots and found Moyer lying next to the body. By checking liquor-license applications, Maloney determined that mobsters or their relatives secretly owned several restaurants and bars in the River Quay. Brokered by Platinum Realty of Saint Louis LLC . 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. Bartolottas defense attorney was reported in the Globe as Andrew Leonard. Over the next two years, eight more mob-related murders would go down before the violence subsided. East Side mob boss Frank "Buster" Wortman and sidekick Elmer "Dutch" Dowling awaited the verdict with stiff-jawed scowls, just as tough guys should. The only thing his real father ever gave him was his name. In 1975, Maloney and Jones teamed up again to cover the corruption and violence surrounding a power struggle among factions of the Kansas City Mafia. While at the Register, he covered a series of murders attributed to the Freeway Killer, a name of his invention. Until January, Sweeney headed the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, a county agency that was used to dole out the contracts to Rallo and other political contributors to Stengers campaign coffers. Though he avoided further trouble with the law, Gruender acted as a courier for Wortman. Everyone figured Wortman took care of it. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Stelzer, a St. Louis-based freelance writer, is working on a biography of the late J.J. Maloney. I had the connection.. Its like the Mississippi River, says John Larry Ray. Google. Given this evidence and other indictors, it is unclear why federal prosecutors in St. Louis did not now pursue the Stenger case under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which was crafted specifically to address such criminal enterprises. "We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie O'Brien," Ray says. The judge put him on probation. In 2000, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversaw a partial radioactive cleanup at the Spectrulite plant. 539 were here. The next day, Maloney returned to the newsroom not as a guest but as an employee. The delays in communications eventually killed his deal with Random House. Dowling was known as an elegant dresser who preferred expensive businessmen's clothing to the more garish threads of many mobsters. The Paddock Lounge also boasts an extensive beverage menu*. Paddock Village Apartments in St. Louis, MO offers two bedroom lofts, two bedroom apartments, and two and three bedroom townhomes. That J.J. Maloney survived is remarkable. On the evening of Dec. 11, he picked up Rhodes in Columbia at an apartment she was sharing with another girl. Dows work caused radioactive debris to accumulate on overhead girders where it was ignored for decades. A week after the trial, one was shot to death along with his body guard. (John LaBusier/Post-Dispatch), Claire Stowers, a waitress at the Bel Air bowling alley, looks over mug shots of suspects in the murders of Dutch Dowling and Melvin Beckman. Maloneys formal education had ended in the ninth grade, but Menn recognized raw talent when he saw it. Daniel Waugh drove a cab at night and chased old mobsters by day. In late 1967, the parole board indicated the possibility of Maloneys being released early the next year. He didnt bring him to St. Louis. After six weeks of observation at Fulton, Maloney was allowed by the parole board to enlist in the Army. The delays in communications eventually killed his deal with Random House. She sent money, clothing, food, stamps and other items. The house remains a private residence. There was just something there, and it didnt fit in with everybody else, says Horrigan, now an editorial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He quickly became an important part of the gang that terrorized Southern Illinois in the 1920s and early. By then the Star had been bought by Capital Cities, a media chain with a history of poor labor relations. He pitched various book proposals and collaborated on at least three different screenplay adaptations of his first novel, but none of the projects came to fruition. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. The Chicago mob had allegedly put a $100,000 contract out on Stonekings life after he became an informant. The judge put him on probation. By the time Maloney returned home, his mother had remarried. Parking: Valet. (Post-Dispatch), Pall bearers carry the casket of Frank "Buster" Wortman into St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Caseyville for his funeral Mass on Aug. 8, 1968. All the hoods would congregate there, drinking coffee, recalls Jones. When he entered prison, Dwight Eisenhower was president; when he came out, the Watergate burglary had been committed. Wortman's headquarters was his Paddock Lounge, at 429 St. Louis Avenue in East St. Louis. She sent money, clothing, food, stamps and other items. If you have money, there will be people who want it. Missouri incorporation records show that Gerhard J. Petzall, a senior partner in the politically-connected law firm of Guilfoil Petzall & Shoemake, sat on the board of directors of Spectrulite for years and continued act as an attorney for the company until 2009. Beckman's shot-up car was found in the parking lot of a bowling alley in Swansea. View 2295 homes for sale in Paddock Lake Condominiums, take real estate virtual tours & browse MLS listings in Florissant, MO at realtor.com. The jurors were dragged back for a grilling, but no one drew suspicion. May 14, 2013 - Rackets Boss. Maloney expanded his connections in the literary world, writing to such luminaries as R. Buckminster Fuller, John D. MacDonald, William Buckley and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Wortman later moved into a home built upon the island, reached by a wooden bridge -- and always guarded by gunmen. You cant stop one place and jump to another place.. She also acted as Maloneys liaison with the outside world. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive Show article text (OCR) Save to Ancestry Clipped from St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri 05. She was 16 and insisted she would commit suicide before she was 21, because she had a fear of not being beautiful. Maloney had garnered the editors attention in 1961 through a poem he had submitted to the Star, which then printed verse on its editorial page each day. Maloney then married a former inmate of the girls reformatory at Chillicothe, and they moved to Alabamabut the marriage fell apart. In late 1967, the parole board indicated the possibility of Maloneys being released early the next year. 4.9. #88 of 282 places to eat in East Saint Louis. 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In that role, Callow has acted to tamp down public concerns about the severity of the environmental and health problems related to the troubled landfill. Nash released Maloney from solitary and assigned him to the newly formed prison art class. 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. C.D. More Info. He proved to be an invaluable ally. (Floyd Bowser/Post-Dispatch), Frank "Buster" Wortman in the federal courthouse in East St. Louis in February 1962 during his trial on income-tax charges. He had his demons, says Mike Fancher, an editor who worked closely with Maloney, but I know that for the time that he worked for the Star he did some absolutely amazing work that I dont think any other journalist could have possibly done.. The first, I Speak for the Dead, is a fictionalized account of Kansas Citys mob war, drawn straight form his clip file. Bar, Nightlife Hours: 601 S 10th St, East St Louis (618) 874-8447. Maloney then wrested the gun from his victim and fled. Entering the store, he pulled a hunting knife and demanded money from Joseph F. Thiemann, the 74-year-old store owner. Competing mob interests were in the midst of fighting for control of the River Quay entertainment district. All of a sudden their stories would change. I was impressed. That arrangement was still in place in 1972. Because of their advance legwork, Maloney, Jones and staff reporters Bill Norton and Joe Henderson uncovered developments in the midst of the mayhem sometimes before federal and local law-enforcement authorities.At one point Joe Cammisano called Maloney and said: Mr. Menn patiently waited until 1967 before publishing one of Maloneys poems in the Star. Inside your new home, you will find window coverings, spacious walk-in closets . Martin Luther King Jr., who died in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. (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. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. East Boogie created that same passion, drive and defiant spirit in the likes of a jazz musician by the name of Miles Davis and many achievers who dared to dream of success despite the negative. Instead, James Earl Ray appeared edgy and expressed apprehension about his future. Morris A. Shenker, St. Louis, Mo., for defendants Frank Leonard Wortman and Elmer Sylvester Dowling. Gruenders association with these gangsters continued long after his parole. The literary editor was with Maloneys mother on Sept. 25, 1972, when Maloney walked out of prison for the last time. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), The island home of Frank "Buster" Wortman in April 1969, eight months after his death. 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. He had publicly refuted the Stars story simply to keep from being killed. At the same time, dissension was brewing in the newsroom. I asked him if hed read the story, and if it had helped him any. Jones agreed with them. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. A Look Back Two mobsters found guilty in East St. Louis in 1962. She kept her end of the bargain. Police never filed charges in the murders. She was 16 and insisted she would commit suicide before she was 21, because she had a fear of not being beautiful. On Dec. 19, 1945, at the age of 14, Maloney ran away from home for the first time.I was prepared, Maloney recalled later. Before his contract expired, the Star hired him as a full-time general-assignment reporter. Despite his abominable record, the state had little choice but to parole him in January 1959, a few months after he turned 18. Bucknor for rejecting handshake: Zero class, Suspect charged in fatal shooting in downtown St. Louis, Man shot and killed after fight in downtown St. Louis, Is Kim Gardner right? But back in Kansas City, a rift had developed among three branches of the local mob: the Cammisano, Spero and Bonadonna clans. We stayed all night at the Catmans in South St. Louis, says Ray, referring to Jack Catman Gawron, a criminal associate of the Ray brothers. Will you make a promise (and keep it) not to try and run awayto obey the rules of the prison and try to do whatever work is assigned to you? For those under 21 years of age, we offer sodas, teas, waters, Gatorades, Red Bull energy drinks, and Nescafe coffee. 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. Shortly before 8 p.m., Maloney dropped Rhodes off at the apartment of an acquaintance, then walked to a nearby confectionery, located at 1100 Lami Ave. Their stories ran as a four-part series in April 1973. Offered by GALERIA LUIS CARVAJAL. In the ensuing fight, the pistol fired a second time, striking Thiemann in the leg. You never know for sure what is going to happen from day to day in prison. A running dispute during. . He had learned about it from his mobbed-up stepfather. Kane, the St. Clair County coroner (fourth from left). By then, newspapers called it "Wortman's Island." Truth at Last is his intriguing but meandering account, a navigation of the uncharted waters of the two siblings lives. A judge cited him for contempt of court. Or you may simply say the wrong thing to the wrong person. Maloney had reached his nadir. He filed suit against the Department of Corrections, arguing that his constitutional rights under the First Amendment had been violated. An attorney of the same name Andrew Leonard was the longtime general counsel for Hartmann Publishing, the original owner of the RFT. After going bankrupt in 2003, Spectrulites owners sold the company, but continue to hold a stake in the operation and the property itself. We offer freshly baked cookies for dessert, and fries or chips for a quick snack option. He was a gutsy little guy. He also worked diligently to establish a national writers association for prisoners. But Sonnenscheins trail extends further into the past. 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. He didnt bring him to St. Louis. Double Deuce Lounge. 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. In the mid-70s, some Star editors were even reluctant to print the word Mafia, Maloney later wrote. No charges were filed against Wortman. Moreover, correspondence regarding his book of poetry had to be routed through his mother. Thiemann then reached into his back pocket as if to get the money and came out with a revolver and fired one shot, which apparently went over his [Maloneys] head. Maloney reacted by stabbing the storeowner in the stomach. In later years he worked as a freelance writer and as an editor for the alternative press. He was assigned to the Army Signal Corps School at Fort Gordon, Ga. His military career lasted just three months: He went AWOL on Nov. 3, 1959. OBrien knew the owner of the Paddock Frank Buster Wortman the East Side mob boss. On the basis of this anecdote, co-author Barsten speculates that James Earl Ray was subjected to the CIAs behavior-modification program known as MK-Ultra. He called me one time, asking about a gun, John Larry Ray says. After returning to the United States, he occasionally talked to his brother by phone. I was impressed that the literary editor of a famous newspaper would write to me. Ray, a 75-year-old resident of Quincy, is giving media interviews in New York to promote the release of his memoir, Truth at Last, co-authored by Lyndon Barsten. He didnt see what kind of car his brother was driving, but he got the sense that someone was waiting for him. He proved to be an invaluable ally. Pendergast was long gone, but his machine was anchored in place. He chain-smoked. Paddock Lounge Melvin Beckman Mystery Man Wolf Branch School Road Shelton Gang Collinsville Look Back Tim O'neil Larry Coyne As featured on A Look Back Two mobsters found guilty in East. John will tell you he brought him [James Earl Ray] to St. Louis, Jerry Ray says. He suspects that the payoff was passed through Wortmans organization by the Chicago mob in advance of a Canadian jewel robbery in which his brother was slated to take part. Or you may simply say the wrong thing to the wrong person. OBrien arranged for the Ray brothers to spend the night at a nearby apartment above an illegal gambling den also operated by Wortman. As a result, he was put in solitary four times and sentenced to the hole another 18 or 20 times. In addition to the failed escape attempt, the prison administration cited Maloney for stabbing another inmate, manufacturing zip guns, using stimulants and committing sodomy. Sonnenschein must also hand over five parcels of property in Brooklyn, Ill., where the now-defunct Free Spirit Massage Parlor was located. Mayor Slay leaves office next week, after serving an unprecedented four terms. He was always writing somethingstories, critiques, opinion pieces and, yes, poetry.. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. In her first letter, Hinkley advised Maloney to seek divine guidance, but she also offered him a more down-to-earth deal. Webbe, a former city alderman, was convicted of voter fraud and obstruction of justice in 1985. The Detroit and St. Louis Mafia families are related. Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. Last chance! There were men in prison who were said to make more money each year from dope and gambling than the warden was paid. In indictments filed by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri against St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger on April 25, 2019, John Johnny Roller Rallo was named as a participant in a pay-to-play scheme. In 1948, he equipped it with the novel luxury of air-conditioning. They are, from left, Morris Shenker, Murry L. Randall, Saul Cohn, Ray Foreman, James F. Nangle Jr. and Norman London. While at the Register, he covered a series of murders attributed to the Freeway Killer, a name of his invention. He told me then that he didnt have time to go on camera for even a few minutes to talk about St. Louis longstanding radioactive waste problem. When I went to the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City, in February 1960, there were 2,500 men inside the walls, Maloney later told readers of the Kansas City Star. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, U.S. But John Larry Ray believes that his brother maintained contact with OBrien after their hasty departure. Stabbings and killings, robberies and rapes were common. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. The mob continued to influence the police department, city hall, the county courthouse and the state legislature. 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. He had learned about it from his mobbed-up stepfather. If they were surprised to hear the word "guilty," they didn't show it. The convicted assassin spent the rest of his life in the Tennessee prison system. The second incident earned him his first stint in the reformatory at Boonville. 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. Shortly before 8 p.m., Maloney dropped Rhodes off at the apartment of an acquaintance, then walked to a nearby confectionery, located at 1100 Lami Ave. Solitary confinement involved long-term segregation, whereas the hole was a short-term punishment, usually a 10-day stint, during which prisoners were deprived of cigarettes, bedding and sometimes clothing. In 1952 the family moved to a farm in New Florence, Mo., a small town 65 miles west of St. Louis. Moreover, Jerry Ray, John Larry Rays surviving brother, disputed John Larrys account in a telephone interview from his home in McMinnville, Tenn., in October. Dowling got his start as a robber and bootlegger in St. Louis. 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