Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-18 | Page 1 | Fake Murder Ring Exposed

IF FAKE AKE MURDER RING EXPOSED Plots Net Over 10 IO in Years Year's Time Officers Discover NEW YORK June 18 Eleven JP-Eleven Eleven persons were under arrest today Jn ln a police roundup of an a alleged extor extor- tion lion gang gang which specialized in staging stag ing fake murders using tomato ketchup ketchup ketchup ket ket- chup to represent blood I Nine men and two women were being held as investigation was made madei of or the gangs gang's activities In New York I Philadelphia and New Jerse Jersey The police said tIe the group had collected The more than in the last y year yearby ear earby ai by wide val e ot plots prots V. V Th The arrests foll followed wed a complaint complain I Iby by Dominick Domini k a a junk d deal dealer al er who said he had paid pid 2000 to tc I Ithe the gang after aCter he had been made the thc victim in a fake murder plot He told police he had been a approached approached ap ap- several months ago by two men who ho demanded a month monthly I sum suir I for Cor the protection of or his business When he refused the pair took hini him I Ito to an east side tenement to talk to the b boss ass As he talked to the boss Zero bonio said an ar argument started and I somebody fired a shot The boss boss fell to the ground and when others turned him over his face was wac covered covered cov coy ered cred with what seemed to be blood and there was a crimson spot on the ground Soon afterward two men I displaying badges came up to the scene and was pointed to as the murderer said the men with badges told him the they would set him free ithe if it I he paid He managed to pa pay 2000 but when the detectives s de demanded de- de more went vent to the I de-I police