The next year, Maloney ran away again. Kevin Horrigan, a cub reporter at the Star in 1973, remembers Maloney as an affable colleague but one who stood apart. The mob continued to influence the police department, city hall, the county courthouse and the state legislature. By then the Star had been bought by Capital Cities, a media chain with a history of poor labor relations. In 1956, he punched an Internal Revenue Service agent in the Paddock, intensifying the agency's interest in his unusual wealth. But the mob kind of looked at Joe as a turncoat. After returning to the United States, he occasionally talked to his brother by phone. While confined at the hospital, Maloney met and fell in love with a fellow patient, 16-year-old Edith Rhodes, who had been transferred from Chillicothe. They also interviewed city and federal law-enforcement authorities and pumped confidential sources for information. She kept her end of the bargain. On one occasion Jones accompanied him to the Three Little Pigs, an after-hours caf that was a favorite of the Mafia. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), Workers build a bridge to the mysterious island. Sonnenscheins latest bust appears to have been part of a larger federal investigation into prostitution on the Eastside. A day after he escaped, he was in Chicago that night, and I met him and John a day afterward at the Fairview Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.. Maloney sensed that the feud was about to erupt into open warfare. Sonnenschein must also hand over five parcels of property in Brooklyn, Ill., where the now-defunct Free Spirit Massage Parlor was located. Readmore storiesfrom Tim O'Neil's Look Back series. 1 in Fulton for psychiatric observation. Maloney thought of Menn as the father he never had. But back in Kansas City, a rift had developed among three branches of the local mob: the Cammisano, Spero and Bonadonna clans. At a tape-recorded meeting held in the Stars conference room, Fred Bonadonna refuted any possibility that Willie Cammisano had had anything to do with the death of his father. Paddock Lounge Killer Reporting J.J. Maloney traded a knife for a pen, swapping a life of crime for a career in journalism. Meanwhile, OBrien was supposed to check with Wortman about a proposed diamond heist. The prison series later won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. He was Wortman's right-hand man when they were convicted together in the income-tax case in 1962. After the Star ran a story implicating Cammisanos brother William Willie the Rat Cammisano in the Bonadonna slaying, members of the two families demanded to rebut the allegation, which was based on an FBI affidavit. In 2000, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversaw a partial radioactive cleanup at the Spectrulite plant. Six days after the verdict, Dowling and a bodyguard were found shot to death on a dark road north of Belleville. Over the next two years, eight more mob-related murders would go down before the violence subsided. Talk about stares. If you are young and good looking, you can count on being confronted again and again. Testifiying against Bartolotta was FBI informant Jesse Stoneking, who the defense claimed had intimidated and entrapped the St. Louis organized crime figure. 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. There were captains on the guard force who owed their souls to certain convicts. "We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie O'Brien," Ray says. 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 . Dowling and bodyguard Melvin Beckman met the mystery man in Belleville, who apparently decided to shoot first. Aside from representing the mayor, Callow has also been a local spokesman for Republic Services, the giant waste disposal company that owns the radioactively-contaminated West Lake Landfill Superfund site in North St. Louis County. 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. The mob continued to influence the police department, city hall, the county courthouse and the state legislature. A day after he escaped, he was in Chicago that night, and I met him and John a day afterward at the Fairview Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.. The reasons for murder and mayhem made little sense to anyone except the convicts. Over the next two years, eight more mob-related murders would go down before the violence subsided. Wortman began his career hijacking liquor trucks for the old Shelton gang in East St. Louis. He was one of those guys who was constantly fidgeting, or his knee was pounding up and down. Stelzer, a St. Louis-based freelance writer, is working on a biography of the late J.J. Maloney. The two reporters began knocking on doors, talking to area business owners. Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. 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. 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. OBrien arranged for the Ray brothers to spend the night at a nearby apartment above an illegal gambling den also operated by Wortman. In subsequent tape-recorded telephone interviews with Maloney, Bonadonna said that the Mafia had also targeted him for execution. 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 last call he received from his brother before the assassination came on March 29, 1968: He was concerned about what was going down on some type of job. Prestige Lounge: By the time Lou Bonds shuttered the Prestige in the early '90s, the venue had already outlasted all of its peers in the surrounding Gaslight Square. The FBI knew about an alleged connection between the Chicago Mafia and Rallo Construction Co. of St. Louis as early as 1991, according to a classified FBI report released under the Freedom of Information Act. He called me one time, asking about a gun, John Larry Ray says. After the breakout, John Larry Ray says, he picked James Earl Ray up and drove him back to St. Louis. Moreover, correspondence regarding his book of poetry had to be routed through his mother. In the book, John Larry Ray asserts that his brother revealed to him that he had been ordered to shoot and kill a black soldier in postwar Germany while serving in the Army. He filed suit against the Department of Corrections, arguing that his constitutional rights under the First Amendment had been violated. As a result, Maloneys letters to Menn started coming back undelivered. poultry; chicken; meat . . I was impressed. Less than two years later, on April 10, 1985, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reported on the federal trial of Bartolotta in East St. Louis. This time he made it as far as Hannibal before crashing a stolen car. An attorney of the same name Andrew Leonard was the longtime general counsel for Hartmann Publishing, the original owner of the RFT. voice be heard! Menn then sold the proposal to Cruise Palmer, the executive editor. The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in one-man cells). I dont know.. In the ensuing fight, the pistol fired a second time, striking Thiemann in the leg. Five more years would elapse before Maloney finally made parole, during which time Menn continued to support and encourage his writing. Maloney was also keenly aware that local law-enforcement officials were hesitant to use the M-word. If you will make these promises, I will ask the warden to take you out of solitary confinement.. 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. You never knew whom you might have trouble with. In May 1991, Stoneking informed the FBI that Berne had told him that the Rallo Construction Company belonged to the Chicago La Costa Nostra. By the time we were cellies, Joe had straightened up his act and was staying out of trouble, working on his parole. Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66, recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. But Richard Callow, the mayors longtime political consultant, does make a cameo appearance in the film. The woman at left is Kane's secretary. The next year, Maloney ran away again. Goldsmiths boss at that time was then-U.S. Attorney Charles Grace, who initiated wide-ranging probes of organized criminal enterprises during his tenure. Buster Wortman kept a close eye on the project, but never said anything about it. 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. He was found shot to death and stuffed into the trunk of his car. Less than two months later, Maloney pleaded guilty to murder and armed robbery, and Circuit Judge James F. Nangle sentenced him to four concurrent life sentences. 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. Maloney then married a former inmate of the girls reformatory at Chillicothe, and they moved to Alabamabut the marriage fell apart. Wortman was acquitted at retrial, but he spent his last years hunkered in his island home, protected by gunmen. 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. Moreover, Jerry Ray, John Larry Rays surviving brother, disputed John Larrys account in a telephone interview from his home in McMinnville, Tenn., in October. The photo was taken in April 1958. The Post-Dispatch ran the photograph because Wortman had refused to tell a federal grand jury where he lived. 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. 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. I dont know.. But his mother remained faithful: She never gave up. 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. Log In. (Edward Burkhardt/Post-Dispatch), Buster Wortman's home at on Grandview Drive on the western outskirts of Collinsville in February 1954. All the hoods would congregate there, drinking coffee, recalls Jones. At Menns suggestion, he started writing book reviews for the Star. I heard he was in Florida someplace., They sipped beer together for a couple of hours, says John Larry Ray. He is awaiting sentencing before Judge Catherine D. Perry in August. There were captains on the guard force who owed their souls to certain convicts. Maloney was 19 years old when he committed the crime. Maloney then wrested the gun from his victim and fled. 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 called me one time, asking about a gun, John Larry Ray says. The last time John Larry Ray visited New York City was in 1965. In the wake of the mob violence, the River Quay was all but abandoned, with only six liquor licenses remaining in the district, down from 28 a few years earlier. Wortman was vacationing in Michigan when he was subpoenaed to appear in an investigation of the murder of J. Fred Koenig, a bookmaker who allegedly was angry that Wortman had taken over his operation. After Maloney punched Thiemann in the face several times, the old man agreed to hand over the cash. At Menns suggestion, he started writing book reviews for the Star. Arizona law enforcement authorities ruled his death a suicide. While absent without leave, Maloney worked briefly for a carnival in Florida before returning to Missouri. Exposure to art ignited Maloneys innate creative streak. But Maloney became more devoted to writing as he matured. He rejected Maloneys poem but continued to correspond, providing him with professional advice and personal guidance. (Lloyd Spainhower/Post-Dispatch), In 1956, workers began digging an oval lake and fashioning an island near South Mulberry Road southeast of Collinsville. (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. I had the connection.. The only thing his real father ever gave him was his name. He reported for the Orange County Register in 1980 and 1981. Thus inspired, the IRS began digging harder into Wortman's unusual financial world. Instead, James Earl Ray appeared edgy and expressed apprehension about his future. He had publicly refuted the Stars story simply to keep from being killed. I was impressed that the literary editor of a famous newspaper would write to me. (Buel White/Post-Dispatch), Buster Wortman being driven away from the St. Clair County Courthouse in Belleville after a brief appearance before the county grand jury on July 2, 1955. 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. Maloney had been in solitary confinement for nearly four months after his escape attempt when Hinkley contacted him. (Post-Dispatch), Elmer "Dutch" Dowling arriving at the federal courthouse in East St. Louis in a light rain during the trial. Eventually, the government charged him with income-tax evasion. People started dying. I was glad to get out of there. Before they departed, Jones overheard the bodyguard to Carl Corky Civella threaten to rape Maloney. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Beckman's shot-up car was ditched at a bowling alley in Swansea. Its far-flung empire stretched all the way to Las Vegas, where the KC mob oversaw the skimming of millions of dollars from casinos. 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. Our community in Florissant, MO . 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 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. He would serve the next 13 years at the Missouri Penitentiary, in Jefferson Cityarguably the worst prison in the United States at the time. He was not from another planet, but he was from another time. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. More Info. Investigators developed a keener interest in the project after Buster Wortman allegedly slugged an IRS agent in the Paddock Lounge, a 429 St. Louis Avenue in East St. Louis on July 1, 1956. That J.J. Maloney survived is remarkable. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. Last chance! They preferred a more cautious approach, advising that the coverage be focused more indirectly on corruption inside the citys liquor-control agency. [This story was first published in January 2, 2004.]. His editors opposed the idea. Jones agreed with them. By then, most of his running buddies from the joint were long dead, victims, for the most part, of their own malevolent ways. 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. 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. Their stories ran as a four-part series in April 1973. Stenger was introduced to Rallo by federal felon Sorkis Webbe Jr. in 2014, according to the federal indictment. In later years he worked as a freelance writer and as an editor for the alternative press. Having written it, my next problem was deciding where to send it. Meanwhile, Menn had interested Random House in publishing a book of Maloneys poetry. #88 of 282 places to eat in East Saint Louis. 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. They registered at the St. Francis Hotel, at Sixth and Chestnut, under the name Mr. and Mrs. John Ducharme of Jacksonville, Fla. That evening Maloney, armed with a hunting knife, robbed the clerk at another downtown hotel. The Paddock Lounge also boasts an extensive beverage menu*. By then, newspapers called it "Wortman's Island." Romeos Lounge. After his mother suffered a nervous breakdown, the court remanded him to the custody of the St. Josephs Catholic home for boys in St. Louis, where he stayed for nearly a year. Oddly enough, Spectrulite remained an active corporation in Missouri with Petzalls name appearing in its annual reports long after the business had filed for bankruptcy in federal court in East St. Louis, Ill. We visited every institution of correction for adults and juveniles in both Missouri and Kansas, plus Leavenworth and Marion in Illinois, which at the time was the Alcatraz of the [federal] system, says Jones. The second incident earned him his first stint in the reformatory at Boonville. When the verdict went wrong, Wortman wanted the money back. Sonnenschein, who headed the A to Z Development Corp., admitted to the court that businesses located on his property were engaged in prostitution. Maloney joined the newspapers staff after being paroled in 1972. It was like he was from another planet. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. (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. After his fourth escape from Boonville, juvenile authorities transferred him to Algoa, the states intermediate reformatory, where his behavior worsened. Later that year, James Earl Ray returned to the St. Louis area and met with OBrien again, John Larry Ray says. Stabbings and killings, robberies and rapes were common. 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. Maloney had reached his nadir. Back home, he shoved aside the Sheltons, mainly through murder. On hearing the bad news, Maloney vowed to kill Moyer and tried to escape. Located at 601 James Thompson Blvd., it also will be a one-stop service center for Illinois' Workforce Advantage program. The next day, Maloney returned to the newsroom not as a guest but as an employee. Stoneking had been a top lieutenant of East St. Louis racketeer Art Berne in the 1980s, when he was working undercover for the FBI. Magin was a defendant in the 1962 tax case, but was acquitted. Witnesses who might have confirmed John Larry Rays expanded version of events are dead. James OMara, the manager of Local 562, was the chairman of the St. Louis County Council at this time. Maloney had reached his nadir. Mugshot of Mike Lacey courtesy of the Maricopa County Sheriffs Department. She seemed fragile and shy, yet she wasnt. The truck driver attributed his lung cancer to his occupational exposure to radiation in the late 1950s and early 1960s. That, of course, was back in the day, when a lifer could still aspire to being released on parole. Printable Racing Calendar & Promotions Schedule A story published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the previous month had spurred the government to do the testing. Only in an institution can love hit that hard and that fast, Maloney wrote. In June 1964, at Hinkleys urging, Warden E.V. Five more years would elapse before Maloney finally made parole, during which time Menn continued to support and encourage his writing. During a short parole in 1957, Maloney was arrested in Kansas City on suspicion of burglary and carrying a concealed weapon. Martin Luther King Jr., who died in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Truth at Last is his intriguing but meandering account, a navigation of the uncharted waters of the two siblings lives. 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. While in prison, Gruender met and befriended Elmer Dutch Dowling and Isidore Londe, lieutenants of East St. Louis mob boss Frank Buster Wortman. The Paddock Lounge also boasts an extensive beverage menu*. The last call he received from his brother before the assassination came on March 29, 1968: He was concerned about what was going down on some type of job. 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. The problems at Spectrulite began in 1957 when the foundry was owned by Dow Chemical Co. Dow processed uranium at the plant between 1957 and 1961 under a subcontract with St. Louis-based Mallinckrodt Chemical Co., which was working for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Tucked in a peaceful neighborhood, Paddock Village Apartments offers a quaint residential setting, complete with lush green spaces. The two reporters began knocking on doors, talking to area business owners. 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. Their bodies were found sprawled across Wolf Branch School Road (now Huntwood). A year after his parents divorced, a hit-and-run driver killed his brother, Bobby. I was impressed that the literary editor of a famous newspaper would write to me. Much of the authors personal knowledge of his brothers exploits is limited to involvement in James Earl Rays escape from the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City in April 1967, a year before Kings murder. Shenker got the convictions reversed. Maloney owed his freedom to Thorpe Menn, the Stars literary editor, who had supported his parole and helped him get his job at the newspaper. For Sale on 1stDibs - "Paddock" Pars 1969, 20th Century oil on canvas by Spanish Artist E. Grau Sala, Canvas, Oil Paint by Emilio Grau Sala. After his fourth escape from Boonville, juvenile authorities transferred him to Algoa, the states intermediate reformatory, where his behavior worsened. Gruender used carpentry skills acquired in prison to rehab the old farmhouse, and he showered Maloney with gifts, including a motorcycle and a shotgun. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. The brand varied with the decade: L&Ms or, later, Marlboro Lights. 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. On March 3, 1962, Dowling and a bodyguard were found murdered on a rural road north of Belleville. The Star published a verbatim transcript of his claims in its next edition. Driving the car, and trying to hide his face with a handkerchief, is Dutch Dowling. It was the beginning of a long-term relationship carried out by correspondence. I had another change of clothes, a pound of fudge, a loaf of bread, 14 silver dollars, and my old mans .38 was buried in the bottom of the sack. Despite his preparations, Maloney was quickly apprehended after stealing a car and spent the night in the Montgomery County Jail. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Maloney also tagged along when his stepfather drove to Jefferson City to visit a friend still incarcerated at the penitentiary. 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. Thiemann died as a result of the wounds he sustained in the fracas. This was the town of Tom Pendergast, one of the most powerful Mafia/machine bosses in U.S. history, Maloney wrote. In late 1967, the parole board indicated the possibility of Maloneys being released early the next year. May 14, 2013 - Rackets Boss. 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