A running dispute during the seven-week trial in 1962 was whether he even owned the place. He didnt see what kind of car his brother was driving, but he got the sense that someone was waiting for him. Maloney then married a former inmate of the girls reformatory at Chillicothe, and they moved to Alabamabut the marriage fell apart. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), The island home of Frank "Buster" Wortman in April 1969, eight months after his death. Hal Goldsmith, the prosecutor in the Stenger case, previously served as an Assistant U.S. attorney in East St. Louis in the 1990s, which was Bernes territory. It didnt take very long for that to happen. The delays in communications eventually killed his deal with Random House. In May 1991, Stoneking informed the FBI that Berne had told him that the Rallo Construction Company belonged to the Chicago La Costa Nostra. On one occasion Jones accompanied him to the Three Little Pigs, an after-hours caf that was a favorite of the Mafia. She was 16 and insisted she would commit suicide before she was 21, because she had a fear of not being beautiful. Hinkley, a former St. Louis Globe-Democrat Woman of the Year, was an early advocate of prison reform and used her social standing to influence decisions of the Missouri Department of Corrections. They drove to Kansas City together and toured the Stars editorial offices. Thiemann died as a result of the wounds he sustained in the fracas. After six weeks of observation at Fulton, Maloney was allowed by the parole board to enlist in the Army. Maloney had reached his nadir. She corresponded. Webbes father had been convicted of income tax evasion in Nevada in 1983 related to his interests in the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas, which was then controlled by the Detroit Mafia. Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. A year after his parents divorced, a hit-and-run driver killed his brother, Bobby. Wortman began his career hijacking liquor trucks for the old Shelton gang in East St. Louis. We offer freshly baked cookies for dessert, and fries or chips for a quick snack option. EAST ST. LOUIS The jury had been out five days when the courtroom buzzer sounded. But when his brother arrived, he showed no interest in purchasing guns. 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? He didnt bring him to St. Louis. He says he warned his brother about the dangers of dealing with the Mafia: I told him dont be the one floating in the Mississippi.. Dowling got his start as a robber and bootlegger in St. Louis. The literary editor was with Maloneys mother on Sept. 25, 1972, when Maloney walked out of prison for the last time. (Post-Dispatch), Elmer "Dutch" Dowling arriving at the federal courthouse in East St. Louis in a light rain during the trial. 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.. Maloney ended up moving to the West Coast. O'Brien knew the owner of the Paddock, Frank "Buster" Wortman, the East Side mob boss. She was 16 and insisted she would commit suicide before she was 21, because she had a fear of not being beautiful. Having written it, my next problem was deciding where to send it. The jurors were dragged back for a grilling, but no one drew suspicion. O'Brien arranged for the Ray brothers to spend the night at a nearby apartment above an illegal gambling den also operated by Wortman. If you are helpless, there are people who will try to make a reputation at your expense. When Berne died in 1996, he was a paid security consultant for Pipefitters Local 562, which Stoneking had also fingered as being connected to the Chicago Outfit. His editors opposed the idea. On his death, in 1915, the founder of the paper, William Rockhill Nelson, had willed the Star to his employees. In the first installment of the series, Maloney gave a lengthy first-person account of life inside the Walls in Jefferson City. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., for United States. 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. Paddock Lounge burns arson suspected. I dont know.. I tried to contact OBrien but I couldnt find him, says John Larry Ray. Live Racing. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. View the menu, check prices, find on the map, see photos and ratings. By the time we were cellies, Joe had straightened up his act and was staying out of trouble, working on his parole. In his phone call he had asked his brother to pump OBrien for information. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. Martin Luther King Jr., who died in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. But his rise from convicted murderer to award-winning investigative reporter for the Kansas City Star is a feat unparalleled in the annals of American journalism. He had seen his share of bloodshed. They both concluded that their fears were unfounded, says John Larry Ray. Search for: Search. You can check, if they still have the records. In 2000, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversaw a partial radioactive cleanup at the Spectrulite plant. She sent money, clothing, food, stamps and other items. 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. Most are from the 1930's-1980's. This one is Condition is as pictured. When they parted, he watched his brother walk down the back alley alone. After Maloney punched Thiemann in the face several times, the old man agreed to hand over the cash. Maloney added to his underworld knowledge in prison, where he befriended fellow inmate John Paul Spica, a St. Louis Mafia soldier. He was between jobs, collecting unemployment benefits. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. 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 prison record over the next few years is a litany of major conduct violation:. The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in one-man cells). Double Deuce Lounge - 601 S 10th St, East St Louis. In advance of his release, Tom Eblen, then the Stars city editor, had written a letter to Maloney, offering him a three-month contract at a monthly salary of $550. On hearing the bad news, Maloney vowed to kill Moyer and tried to escape. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Buster Wortman kept a close eye on the project, but never said anything about it. The convicted assassin spent the rest of his life in the Tennessee prison system. Eventually, the government charged him with income-tax evasion. (Post-Dispatch), A close-up of a bullet hole in the front windshield of Melvin Beckman's car. 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. On his death, in 1915, the founder of the paper, William Rockhill Nelson, had willed the Star to his employees. The two reporters began knocking on doors, talking to area business owners. He wanted to meet me. The two arranged a rendezvous in West Memphis, Ark., on the evening of April 3, 1968, at what Ray calls a back-alley bar. In those days the Kansas City Star printed a poem on the editorial page every day, so I mailed the poem to the Star. The same year, Maloneys byline disappeared from the pages of the Star when he quit the paper in a dispute over overtime pay. Given where hed come from, its easy to figure out why.. In late 1967, the parole board indicated the possibility of Maloneys being released early the next year. Kane, county coroner. Jones agreed with them. Wortman was 63. 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 Paddock Lounge also boasts an extensive beverage menu*. People [were] shot and blown up.. But the mob kind of looked at Joe as a turncoat. While there, he remembers, Malcolm X was murdered. Beckman was a bodyguard for Wortman and Dowling. While absent without leave, Maloney worked briefly for a carnival in Florida before returning to Missouri. More than a decade earlier, a federal probe linked RFT sex ads to the Eastside rackets. I asked him if hed read the story, and if it had helped him any. Their bodies were found sprawled across Wolf Branch School Road (now Huntwood). The couple then took a cab to the Soulard neighborhood in South St. Louis. Warden Nash committed suicide. In a sense, Maloney did respect their trade. Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. 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 was between jobs, collecting unemployment benefits. Ratings. By then, newspapers called it "Wortman's Island." He said, Youve saved my life, for the time being, anyway.. 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. 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. Federal prosecutors had charged Bartolotta and another Missouri resident with conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property. OBrien knew the owner of the Paddock Frank Buster Wortman the East Side mob boss. Stelzer, a St. Louis-based freelance writer, is working on a biography of the late J.J. Maloney. Maloney excelled as a feature writer but eventually became better known as an investigative journalist covering a wide range of issues, including labor racketeering, white-collar crime, drug trafficking and mental health. 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. The judge put him on probation. We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie OBrien, Ray says. While in prison, Gruender met and befriended Elmer Dutch Dowling and Isidore Londe, lieutenants of East St. Louis mob boss Frank Buster Wortman. The prison series later won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. As it turns out, Gerhard J. Petzall the mayors former law partner has past ties to the now-defunct Spectrulite Consortium Inc., a company that owned a plant in Madison, Illinois contaminated with radioactive waste from the Cold War. The blacks slept as many as eight to a cell. If you will make these promises, I will ask the warden to take you out of solitary confinement.. 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. Moreover, Jerry Ray, John Larry Rays surviving brother, disputed John Larrys account in a telephone interview from his home in McMinnville, Tenn., in October. voice be heard! James Earl Ray subsequently fled north of the border, but there is no indication that he participated in such a caper. In June 1964, at Hinkleys urging, Warden E.V. Frank L. "Buster" Wortman (December 4, 1904 - August 3, 1968) was an American St. Louis-area bootlegger, gambler, criminal gang leader, and a former member of the Shelton Brothers Gang during Prohibition.Wortman would eventually succeed the Sheltons, and take over St. Louis's gambling operations in southwest Illinois until his death. I was impressed that the literary editor of a famous newspaper would write to me. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. Rays late brother James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to Kings murder in 1969 but quickly recanted his confession. It might have been recycling. Maloney then wrested the gun from his victim and fled. Wortman did not like having his picture taken, but couldn't avoid it during the seven-week trial. I was impressed that the literary editor of a famous newspaper would write to me. He rejected Maloneys poem but continued to correspond, providing him with professional advice and personal guidance. A running dispute during. Maloney had reached his nadir. Maloney, I realize you have a job to dobut do you have to be so intense?. He was a gutsy little guy. Vintage The Paddock Lounge And Club Room Restaurant Menu St. Louis Ave East St Louis from Sonnenscheins latest bust appears to have been part of a larger federal investigation into prostitution on the Eastside. Maloney joined the newspapers staff after being paroled in 1972. Maloney added to his underworld knowledge in prison, where he befriended fellow inmate John Paul Spica, a St. Louis Mafia soldier. Exposure to art ignited Maloneys innate creative streak. John Larry. The next year, Maloney ran away again. The second incident earned him his first stint in the reformatory at Boonville. Morris A. Shenker, St. Louis, Mo., for defendants Frank Leonard Wortman and Elmer Sylvester Dowling. That arrangement was still in place in 1972. At the time of his marriage to Maloneys mother, he had only been out of the Missouri Penitentiary for a year. There were men in prison who were said to make more money each year from dope and gambling than the warden was paid. When he entered prison, Dwight Eisenhower was president; when he came out, the Watergate burglary had been committed. Sonnenschein was indicted because the ads drew customers and prostitutes across state lines, which is a federal crime. Everyone was shocked. 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. In her first letter, Hinkley advised Maloney to seek divine guidance, but she also offered him a more down-to-earth deal. In the mid-70s, some Star editors were even reluctant to print the word Mafia, Maloney later wrote. Once an adult (21 years old or older) has finished racing for the day (we have a strict anti-drinking and driving policy), they can enjoy a wide selection of beer and . Maloneys formal education had ended in the ninth grade, but Menn recognized raw talent when he saw it. 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. That arrangement was still in place in 1972. Shenker got the convictions reversed. He also published two autobiographical crime novels. Spectrulite never operated its manufacturing plant in Missouri. A sheriffs posse pursuing the fugitives heard the shots and found Moyer lying next to the body. If you have money, there will be people who want it. Maloneys own artwork took awards at state and county fairs and was exhibited at a gallery in Paris. 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. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. (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. 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. While absent without leave, Maloney worked briefly for a carnival in Florida before returning to Missouri. Parking: Valet. Gruender, a housepainter, had a string of arrests and convictions for car theft and burglary dating back to 1926. (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. They preferred a more cautious approach, advising that the coverage be focused more indirectly on corruption inside the citys liquor-control agency. "We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie O'Brien," Ray says. Maloney had no way of knowing the significance that his verse would ultimately play in redirecting his life. She seemed fragile and shy, yet she wasnt. In the late 1990s, shortly before his death, he established a Web site, crimemagazine.com, which is maintained by his friend J. Patrick OConnor, former owner of the New Times, a now-defunct alternative weekly in Kansas City. O'Brien knew the owner of the Paddock Frank "Buster" Wortman the East Side mob boss. The Kansas City Mafia wielded considerable economic cloutcontrolling several banks [and] owning ten percent or more of the taverns and nightclubs in the city. He encouraged me to keep working on the poem, and asked me to stay in touch with him. The same year, Maloneys byline disappeared from the pages of the Star when he quit the paper in a dispute over overtime pay. Jones and Maloney collaborated for months on the prison project, sharing the reporting and writing duties. 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. Maloney sensed that the feud was about to erupt into open warfare. I remember telling him, Joe, lets just wait until they start killing each other, says Jones. Readmore storiesfrom Tim O'Neil's Look Back series. Beckman was a bodyguard in Wortman's organization. Beneath the outward generosity, however, Gruender was an angry and hardened man who drank heavily and sometimes abused his wife and stepson. . James Earl Ray subsequently fled north of the border, but there is no indication that he participated in such a caper. Given where hed come from, its easy to figure out why.. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. Thus inspired, the IRS began digging harder into Wortman's unusual financial world. Facebook. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive Show article text (OCR) Save to Ancestry Clipped from St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri 05. Maloney had no way of knowing the significance that his verse would ultimately play in redirecting his life. . On the evening of Dec. 11, he picked up Rhodes in Columbia at an apartment she was sharing with another girl. Dope was easier to get in prison than it was on the streets. Bonadonna disappeared in 1978, presumably into the federal witness-protection program. 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. English . Despite his abominable record, the state had little choice but to parole him in January 1959, a few months after he turned 18. In prison he preferred Camels, when he could afford them. He quickly became an important part of the gang that terrorized Southern Illinois in the 1920s and early. He would serve the next 13 years at the Missouri Penitentiary, in Jefferson Cityarguably the worst prison in the United States at the time. Moreover, correspondence regarding his book of poetry had to be routed through his mother. Your mother tells me that if you give your promise to do something, you keep your word, Hinkley wrote. They also interviewed city and federal law-enforcement authorities and pumped confidential sources for information. All the hoods would congregate there, drinking coffee, recalls Jones. The defendants departed the federal courthouse, 750 Missouri Avenue, free on appeal bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 10. Truth at Last is his intriguing but meandering account, a navigation of the uncharted waters of the two siblings lives. For those under 21 years of age, we offer sodas, teas, waters, Gatorades, Red Bull energy drinks, and Nescafe coffee. The housepainter soon introduced his young stepson to the underworld, taking Maloney with him on occasional visits to the Paddock Lounge, Wortman's bar in East St. Louis, which was a hangout for organized crime figures. 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. Bonadonna was one of Maloneys confidential sources. The FBI knew that the Rallo Construction Co. had alleged ties to the Chicago Mafia for decades. When newspaper tycoon Mike Lacey, former owner of the St. Louis Riverfront Times, was busted for pimping in California this week, his arrest was long overdue. Sam Magin, former manager and bartender at Wortman's Paddock Lounge in East St. Louis, told investigators and reporters that he was in charge of the project and that it was being built for a boys' club. Testifiying against Bartolotta was FBI informant Jesse Stoneking, who the defense claimed had intimidated and entrapped the St. Louis organized crime figure. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. I asked him if hed read the story, and if it had helped him any. But Richard Callow, the mayors longtime political consultant, does make a cameo appearance in the film. Menn became his mentor, giving guidance and critiquing his poetry and prose. Paddock Lounge Killer Reporting J.J. Maloney traded a knife for a pen, swapping a life of crime for a career in journalism. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch). Pendergast was long gone, but his machine was anchored in place. 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. Its like the Mississippi River, says John Larry Ray. 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. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), Workers build a bridge to the mysterious island. John Larry Ray, a convicted bank robber, spent more than a quarter-century behind bars himself. 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. Maloney then wrested the gun from his victim and fled. His stepfather, Julius Dutch Gruender, an ex-con, became Maloneys less-than-sterling guardian. You never know for sure what is going to happen from day to day in prison. In 1952 the family moved to a farm in New Florence, Mo., a small town 65 miles west of St. Louis. 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. (Floyd Bowser/Post-Dispatch). Maloney thought of Menn as the father he never had. 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. He had learned about it from his mobbed-up stepfather. John G. Rallo, also known as Johnny Roller for his long hours spent at the crap tables in Las Vegas, and fellow accomplice Sheila Sweeney were charged one week after Stenger pleaded guilty. 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