Show I El Election Was WasI End of Murder Inc By ROBERT MUSEL V V V NEW YORK UP Alex UP-Alex Alex Red Alpert S was was only 19 but buthe V he demanded a Jarger arger arger share of the pr profits fits of Murder I Inc c. c That audacity brought its its' inevitable result on a achill chill day in November November November Novem Novem- ber 1933 when his is body a bullet in in the back wa wasi as tossed into a courtyard in th the Brownsville section of Brooklyn I A few days later a tragic pU pil- pil pilgrimage pilgrimage grimage began A wan old lady walked from her home to the police police po po- lice precinct to toI toL toL I ask L ef f I as Where Where are the Article killers of of my V son sonI In Series For six six years although she missed scarcely a day Mrs Alpert's Alperts Alperts Alpert's Alperts Alpert's Al Al- pert's question went unanswered I She told police that her son had pointed out Abe Kid Twist Reles Relesa a as a man who was out to get me me Reles and Martin Goldstein Goldstein Goldstein Gold Gold- stein W Were te picked up up-as up as they had been in many slayings slayings and and were released for lark Jack of rf evidence But Mrs A Alpert her mind almost unhinged by grief still went to the station ODy ODwyer r Hated hinted Underworld Under Then V William ODwyer was elected district attorney of Brooklyn Brook- Brook lyn yn ODwyer had a burning hatred for the underworld his underworld his his brother John had been killed by up hold-up men only two months after the Alpert slaying V V He reopened the Alpert case obtainIng obtaining ob ob- ob- ob taming indictments against Reles Goldstein and Anthony The Duke Maffetore S Credit for cracking Murder Inc goes largely to two men men ODwyer O Dwyer a former laborer and policeman and Police Lieutenant John who pounded a beat with ODwyer I when both were rookie cops Os Os- Os nato induced Maffetore and Abraham Abra- Abra ham harrr lam Pretty Levine to confess their heir activities as trigger men for Murder Inc this way After his arrest Maffetore was placed laced alone in a guarded hotel room He was permitted to spend a few days alone with liLt his thoughts Then strolled In greeted him in Italian and offered a few which h the prisoner smoked greedily Jeers leers At Suspect V making a f fool ol of you jeered You haven't got gota goti a i dime They've been grabbing the big ig dough and what have you got They eat steaks and arid drink chamagne cham- cham agne They wear good clothes They go to Florida and play the races What do de you do You stay stayn in n Brooklyn and nd pick up what few dollars you can When did you ever have 1000 1000 in cash like Reles had when whIm he was picked up for vagrancy Maffetore snarl snarled d' d that was trying to make his squeal S Sure the policeman agreed Why shouldn't you think of yourself yourself your your- yourself self for a change and your wife wile and baby They're going to be evicted n next week week not not Reles' Reles or V Goldsteins Goldstein's families J. J I. I w want nt V you V to think of Dixie Davis Davis' and how V hes he's enjoying himself in Ar Arizona zona with his wife because he lie talked to Tom Dewey about V JI Jimmy Hines The next time called Maffetore began to cry I love lov my wife he ne moaned I dont don't want to leave her Ill I'll talk When he e had finished with his story Levine was brought into the hotel room The Duke Duk proved to tobe be bean an apt pupil IlLs Has to Think of Wife V Pretty retty Maffetore said youre just a punk like sue me They made madeus madeus' us us' th that t way and nd they were ready to knock us off oft if they decided we knew too much Now youve you've got gotto gotto gotto to think of f your wife and kid That's what Im I'm doing Im I'm talking my head off and that's what youve you've got to do V Levine did O ODwyer Dwyer came to this country from Ireland in in 1910 when he was 20 He worked as a hod carrier and a coal passer while attending night school In 1917 he was appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed a policeman He was graduated from Fordham law school in 1923 started the practice of law in 1925 and was appointed a magistrate jn in 1932 In 1938 he hew w was wac l fn tn Iho IhA b bench bencha i a position h he h-e h held d'- d' until t n his election It It was was while he was a magistrate that brother was killed and from then on he waged an unceasing unceasing unceasing un un- un- un ceasing war against crimes of vio yb- lence V V |