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ADAMS tities that the late Albert Anasta-1 American's reports were far from pended and two superior officers officer came on duty. addresses formerly known as sia, Murder Inc. chief, had de- exaggerated. one of them Miller had re- How is Utica facing the future brothels every day three times clared himseled "in" after his Police Chief Leo Miller was on signed under fire. its house has been a day," he said.
"None gave any nephew a Utica girl. the stand during one phase of the recent weeks, Reuter ordered indication of being in operation. The reporter: said that the "watchdog" committee investiga- then suspension of veteran detec- The church organizations have Right now Utica is closed tighter prostitutes and gamblers kicked tion and was asked to describe a tive John Belmont because of his vowed never to relax their vigi- than a for the protection they enjoyed, "That's a house under observa- tions. corruption. wAnother Devine, also went to back 25 per cent of their earnings certain Utica address.
alleged refusal to answer ques- lance against vice and suspected committee investigator, the payoffs taking place at clan- tion as a house of City officials have reinstated The ordinary citizens, polled by Utica recently and posed as a bigdestine restaurant meetings. he replied uneasily. two of the suspended officers. One newspaper last week, time gambler. In his words, he The Journal-American series of long has it under has a conviction for having oper- demonstrated overwhelmingly that couldn't 'get a nibble for any articles, headed "Invisible Gov- observation?" he was asked." ated a disorderly house.
they favored the investigations kind of action." made respectable Uti- years," Miller, said. Deputy Police Chief Vincent which had given their city such a "Even the pinball machines have cans shudder. Then there was Helen Fiore, who quit while the heat was black eye and want them to con- been moved out," Devine said. Before the series was completed, "Ma" Davis, 66, accused of being on, was given a job in the city tinue. said.
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v. UTICA, N.Y. (INS) proudents, of Utica had industrial long town, been placid and secure on the bank of the Mohawk River in mid-New York state. Then, suddenly they found they were living in the "Sin City Of The East," named by out-of-town investigated by legislators and a grand jury and "it milked by came as quite a shock. Uticas is a city of nice homes and reasonable prosperity.
There were some ramshackle houses on the east side, but every big town like that. And some matorectiona blackened front windows, but you'll find them in almost any city. The respectable people went to church, were proud of Utica's recovery from the flight of the tile industry and asked few questions. Then a bunch of Mafia gangsters met in a hilltop mansion at Apalachin, N.Y., and newsmen from the New York Journal-American put scattered reports together, dug, and found Utica rife with wide open, organized vice. In the aftermath of the "Sin City" reports, Gil Smith, managing editor of the Utica ObserverDispatch, said: "We have been guilty of not putting the overall, long range story into focus.
There were times were suspicious and found getting proof simply impossible. Perhaps we weren't as aggressive as we should have been." Observer-Dispatch and the Daily Press, which had over the years pointed to the evils in the 'city and opposed the city administration on the law enforcement issue at the last election, have been threatened by the Common Council with moves newspapers describe as "retaliatory." One of those moves was a threat to impose a five per cent tax on advertising. That plan was dropped. The recent Fuller exposure of the seamy side of life in this city with a population of slightly more than 100,000 be traced back to November, when police broke up the convention of Mafia gangsters at Apalachin. When the stories of the convention crossed the special events desk of the New York JournalAmerican, a curious fact stood out.
Three of the Apalchin delegates were Utica residents. Two of them were the Falcone brothers, Salvatore and Joseph, held in high community esteem for their big charitable contributions. reporters began digging and found, for example, that prostitutes solicited openly in most of the town's taverns. The girls rendezvoused with their clients in dingy east side traps. The standard fee was $10, And those empty stores with the blackened fronts provided a site for card and dice gwmes of startlingly high stakes.
All this went on, the JournalAmerican charged, with the knowledge and consent of certain highly placed officers in the Police Department. As Utica's face reddened, the Journal-American's revelations mounted. It found that 13 gangland-style killings were still carried on the police books as unsolved. One story named Joe Falcone the vice lord. A reporter said that vice money was being harvested in such quan- Fourth Judge Expected To Take Bribery Trial INDIANAPOLIS (P--Judge Horace C.
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