Its far-flung empire stretched all the way to Las Vegas, where the KC mob oversaw the skimming of millions of dollars from casinos. Sam Reese, an older convict who had gained national recognition for his oil paintings and cartoons, served as his role model. C.D. Sam Reese, an older convict who had gained national recognition for his oil paintings and cartoons, served as his role model. 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. John Larry. It might have been recycling. At the time of his marriage to Maloneys mother, he had only been out of the Missouri Penitentiary for a year. The conviction was only the second for the often-arrested Wortman, who had muscled to the top in the late 1940s with help from the Capone syndicate in Chicago. The Department of Energy conducted the first radiological testing at the facility in March 1989, which showed elevated levels of Uranium-238 and Thorium-232. Hartmann Publishing, owned by Ray Hartmann, sold the newspaper to the New Times, a Phoenix-based chain, in late 1998. 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 expanded his connections in the literary world, writing to such luminaries as R. Buckminster Fuller, John D. MacDonald, William Buckley and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. A short time later, he went to federal prison for slugging a liquor agent during a raid on a still near Collinsville. Maloney then married a former inmate of the girls reformatory at Chillicothe, and they moved to Alabamabut the marriage fell apart. 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. He was always writing somethingstories, critiques, opinion pieces and, yes, poetry.. Subscribe with this special offer to keep reading, (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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? 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.. EAST ST. LOUIS The jury had been out five days when the courtroom buzzer sounded. Instead, James Earl Ray appeared edgy and expressed apprehension about his future. On hearing the bad news, Maloney vowed to kill Moyer and tried to escape. He encouraged me to keep working on the poem, and asked me to stay in touch with him. Maloney then wrested the gun from his victim and fled. By checking liquor-license applications, Maloney determined that mobsters or their relatives secretly owned several restaurants and bars in the River Quay. If you have money, there will be people who want it. In the first installment of the series, Maloney gave a lengthy first-person account of life inside the Walls in Jefferson City. Kevin Horrigan, a cub reporter at the Star in 1973, remembers Maloney as an affable colleague but one who stood apart. In 1979, the St. Louis environmental activist had interviewed a terminally-ill truck driver who had delivered uranium ingots from Mallinckrodt Chemical in North St. Louis to the Dow plant in Madison. He said, Youve saved my life, for the time being, anyway.. Thiemann died as a result of the wounds he sustained in the fracas. Maloney argued that the Star should immediately expose the Mafias infiltration of the River Quay. (Lloyd Spainhower/Post-Dispatch), In 1956, workers began digging an oval lake and fashioning an island near South Mulberry Road southeast of Collinsville. The Star published a verbatim transcript of his claims in its next edition. 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. 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. 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. Despite his abominable record, the state had little choice but to parole him in January 1959, a few months after he turned 18. You never knew whom you might have trouble with. 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. In subsequent tape-recorded telephone interviews with Maloney, Bonadonna said that the Mafia had also targeted him for execution. 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. 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. He was one of those guys who was constantly fidgeting, or his knee was pounding up and down. While absent without leave, Maloney worked briefly for a carnival in Florida before returning to Missouri. It didnt take very long for that to happen. Dope was easier to get in prison than it was on the streets. Nash released Maloney from solitary and assigned him to the newly formed prison art class. 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. The next day I called Bonadonna, Maloney recalled later. The brand varied with the decade: L&Ms or, later, Marlboro Lights. Jones agreed with them. 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. 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. 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. He drew five years, but the conviction was reversed. People [were] shot and blown up.. By then the Star had been bought by Capital Cities, a media chain with a history of poor labor relations. She also acted as Maloneys liaison with the outside world. 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. Despite his abominable record, the state had little choice but to parole him in January 1959, a few months after he turned 18. When we would go in together to interview somebody, a prisoner or the warden or the guards, wed start off and they would be talking one way and the minute they found out about Joeand what his background wasit was like administering truth serum. While at the Register, he covered a series of murders attributed to the Freeway Killer, a name of his invention. Stabbings and killings, robberies and rapes were common. But back in Kansas City, a rift had developed among three branches of the local mob: the Cammisano, Spero and Bonadonna clans. They drove to Kansas City together and toured the Stars editorial offices. The FBI knew that the Rallo Construction Co. had alleged ties to the Chicago Mafia for decades. I was impressed. Kim Gardner faces calls to resign, threat of removal, 4 killed, 4 critically injured in crash at South Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Avenue, What we know about the suspected driver in volleyball player crash in downtown St. Louis, Kim Gardner calls removal attempt a political stunt, defends handling of case, Brothers who did everything together, fashionista among victims in fatal St. Louis crash, Boeing to end F/A-18 Super Hornet production by 2025, Family of teen hit by driver in St. Louis leans on strength, asks for wave of prayers, Missouri attorney generals ultimatum to Kim Gardner: Resign or face removal from office. His editors opposed the idea. He was not from another planet, but he was from another time. That, of course, was back in the day, when a lifer could still aspire to being released on parole. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., for United States. 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. He was too busy that sunny Sunday afternoon promoting some other well-intentioned environmental cause. He wasn't convicted again until Feb. 26, 1962, when a federal jury in East St. Louis found him guilty of conspiracy to avoid income taxes on his gambling operations. East St. Louis Community College Center. Maloney moved back to Kansas City, perhaps drawn by memories of his glory days. You cant stop one place and jump to another place.. But Maloney became more devoted to writing as he matured. A subdivision now adjoins the lake, known today as Magin's Lake, named after Wortman's old bartender. Gruender, a housepainter, had a string of arrests and convictions for car theft and burglary dating back to 1926. 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. People [were] shot and blown up.. James Earl Ray worried that Kings presence in the city might somehow block his getaway plans, his brother says, and he never provided any clues about what else was making him so uneasy. We worked on the fifth floor of the prison hospital, which is to say the psych ward. View 2295 homes for sale in Paddock Lake Condominiums, take real estate virtual tours & browse MLS listings in Florissant, MO at realtor.com. After six weeks of observation at Fulton, Maloney was allowed by the parole board to enlist in the Army. 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. That J.J. Maloney survived is remarkable. The reasons for murder and mayhem made little sense to anyone except the convicts. We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie OBrien, Ray says. This was the town of Tom Pendergast, one of the most powerful Mafia/machine bosses in U.S. history, Maloney wrote. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Back home, he shoved aside the Sheltons, mainly through murder. When I went to the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City, in February 1960, there were 2,500 men inside the walls, Maloney later told readers of the Kansas City Star. Vintage The Paddock Lounge And Club Room Restaurant Menu St. Louis Ave East St Louis from 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. 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. The last time John Larry Ray visited New York City was in 1965. He told me then that he didnt have time to go on camera for even a few minutes to talk about St. Louis longstanding radioactive waste problem. Petzall, the mayors legal mentor, will celebrate his 86th birthday in June. 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? 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. Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66, recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. Rays late brother James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to Kings murder in 1969 but quickly recanted his confession. 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. By then, newspapers called it "Wortman's Island." 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. In 2000, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversaw a partial radioactive cleanup at the Spectrulite plant. 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. Magin was a defendant in the 1962 tax case, but was acquitted. Search for: Search. 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. A year after his parents divorced, a hit-and-run driver killed his brother, Bobby. She corresponded. He was found shot to death and stuffed into the trunk of his car. (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. Through her encouragement, elderly attorney Mable Hinkley began to correspond with Maloney. It didnt take very long for that to happen. 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. Tucked in a peaceful neighborhood, Paddock Village Apartments offers a quaint residential setting, complete with lush green spaces. Maloney had no way of knowing the significance that his verse would ultimately play in redirecting his life. Before his contract expired, the Star hired him as a full-time general-assignment reporter. 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. In a sense, Maloney did respect their trade. Wortman had died in Alexian Brothers Hospital in St. Louis five days before after undergoing throat surgery. While there, he remembers, Malcolm X was murdered. Dowling was known as an elegant dresser who preferred expensive businessmen's clothing to the more garish threads of many mobsters. Morris Shenker, the go-to lawyer for mobsters, expressed ritual disappointment. The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in one-man cells). John Larry Ray, a convicted bank robber, spent more than a quarter-century behind bars himself. After returning to the United States, he occasionally talked to his brother by phone. By then, the prison-bound poet and writer had been published in numerous other venues, including Focus/Midwest, a St. Louisbased magazine founded by Charles Klotzer, publisher of the Saint Louis Journalism Review. He didnt bring him to St. Louis. 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. If you are young and good looking, you can count on being confronted again and again. 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. . She visited. On hearing the bad news, Maloney vowed to kill Moyer and tried to escape. Last chance! 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. A version of this story appeared in Illinois Times, April 2, 2008. 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. 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. Federal prosecutors had charged Bartolotta and another Missouri resident with conspiring to commit interstate transportation of stolen property. Latest reviews, photos and ratings for Romeos Lounge at 787 N 53rd St in East Saint Louis - view the menu, hours, phone number, address and map. Stoneking had been a top lieutenant of East St. Louis racketeer Art Berne in the 1980s, when he was working undercover for the FBI. [This story was first published in January 2, 2004.]. In his phone call he had asked his brother to pump OBrien for information. 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. Spectrulite never operated its manufacturing plant in Missouri. Meanwhile, OBrien was supposed to check with Wortman about a proposed diamond heist. In those days the Kansas City Star printed a poem on the editorial page every day, so I mailed the poem to the Star. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. Only in an institution can love hit that hard and that fast, Maloney wrote. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. The same year, Maloneys byline disappeared from the pages of the Star when he quit the paper in a dispute over overtime pay. James Earl Ray subsequently fled north of the border, but there is no indication that he participated in such a caper. Wortman made his bookmaking network pony up $20,000 for the deal. See restaurant menus, reviews, ratings, phone number, address, hours, photos and maps. By then, the prison-bound poet and writer had been published in numerous other venues, including Focus/Midwest, a St. Louisbased magazine founded by Charles Klotzer, publisher of the Saint Louis Journalism Review. By any measure, he had to be considered beyond salvation, a lost cause. Maloneys own artwork took awards at state and county fairs and was exhibited at a gallery in Paris. Maloney was also keenly aware that local law-enforcement officials were hesitant to use the M-word. East Boogie created that same passion, drive and defiant spirit in the likes of a jazz musician by the name of Miles Davis and many achievers who dared to dream of success despite the negative. John will tell you he brought him [James Earl Ray] to St. Louis, Jerry Ray says. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, U.S. Maloney moved back to Kansas City, perhaps drawn by memories of his glory days. (Post-Dispatch), Morris Shenker, lead defense lawyer for Buster Wortman, addresses the judge during the trial in February 1962. Maloney had reached his nadir. I was glad to get out of there. Before they departed, Jones overheard the bodyguard to Carl Corky Civella threaten to rape Maloney. Rays late brother James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to Kings murder in 1969 but quickly recanted his confession. 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. 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. Thiemann then reached into his back pocket as if to get the money and came out with a revolver and fired one shot, which apparently went over his [Maloneys] head. Maloney reacted by stabbing the storeowner in the stomach. When they parted, he watched his brother walk down the back alley alone. When we would go in together to interview somebody, a prisoner or the warden or the guards, wed start off and they would be talking one way and the minute they found out about Joeand what his background wasit was like administering truth serum. They preferred a more cautious approach, advising that the coverage be focused more indirectly on corruption inside the citys liquor-control agency. After six weeks of observation at Fulton, Maloney was allowed by the parole board to enlist in the Army. All the hoods would congregate there, drinking coffee, recalls Jones. Dowling was convicted of assault in the case, but he won a reversal from the Missouri Supreme Court. Witnesses who might have confirmed John Larry Rays expanded version of events are dead. Wortman began his career hijacking liquor trucks for the old Shelton gang in East St. Louis. But Maloney became more devoted to writing as he matured. In the city of St. Louis, there were once twenty bars located between Bates on the north and the city limits on the south. Maloney had reached his nadir. Beneath the outward generosity, however, Gruender was an angry and hardened man who drank heavily and sometimes abused his wife and stepson. That, of course, was back in the day, when a lifer could still aspire to being released on parole. The convicted assassin spent the rest of his life in the Tennessee prison system. Most are from the 1930's-1980's. This one is Condition is as pictured. 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. and the proprietorship known as Paddock Liquor Company, and the names (or identifying descriptions) of the books and records in which the alleged conspiracy sought to cause . When he made the demand for money, he and Thiemann began struggling, according to the confession Maloney later gave St. Louis police. I was impressed. Located at 601 James Thompson Blvd., it also will be a one-stop service center for Illinois' Workforce Advantage program. After Maloney punched Thiemann in the face several times, the old man agreed to hand over the cash. She seemed fragile and shy, yet she wasnt. At the time of his release, he had served 13 years of a life sentence for killing a South St. Louis confectionery owner during an attempted robbery. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive Show article text (OCR) Save to Ancestry Clipped from St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri 05. Truth at Last is his intriguing but meandering account, a navigation of the uncharted waters of the two siblings lives. He had learned about it from his mobbed-up stepfather. 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. In her first letter, Hinkley advised Maloney to seek divine guidance, but she also offered him a more down-to-earth deal. The Chicago mob had allegedly put a $100,000 contract out on Stonekings life after he became an informant. 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. The convicted assassin spent the rest of his life in the Tennessee prison system. He also published two autobiographical crime novels. I had the connection.. Maloney ended up moving to the West Coast. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. His stepfather, Julius Dutch Gruender, an ex-con, became Maloneys less-than-sterling guardian. If you are helpless, there are people who will try to make a reputation at your expense. Maloneys prison record listed him as 5-foot-9 and 145 pounds. If the remark bothered Maloney, he didnt show it. During the conversation, John Larry Ray says, Kings name came up only in reference to the possibility of traffic congestion resulting from his visit to Memphis the next day. People started dying. By then the Star had been bought by Capital Cities, a media chain with a history of poor labor relations. Stelzer, a St. Louis-based freelance writer, is working on a biography of the late J.J. Maloney. He was a gutsy little guy. A private drive connected the bridge to South Mulberry Road. Beckman's shot-up car was found in the parking lot of a bowling alley in Swansea. Its the smoking that eventually killed him. 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. In addition to the failed escape attempt, the prison administration cited Maloney for stabbing another inmate, manufacturing zip guns, using stimulants and committing sodomy. 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. There is no doubt now that John Larry Ray helped James Earl Ray escape from the Missouri State Penitentiary, but the devil is in the details. Wortman later moved into a home built upon the island, reached by a wooden bridge -- and always guarded by gunmen. John Larry. Bonadonna was one of Maloneys confidential sources. Google. Prosecutors said Wortman evaded $50,793 in taxes due from glitzy gambling halls and smoky bookie joints. They preferred a more cautious approach, advising that the coverage be focused more indirectly on corruption inside the citys liquor-control agency. He chain-smoked. The report goes on to say that Berne told [Stoneking] that if Chicago wanted to buy property, businesses, get loans or some other such financial transaction it would be done through Rallo Construction Company in St. Louis.. Gruender, a housepainter, had a string of arrests and convictions for car theft and burglary dating back to 1926. Joseph John Maloney Sr., a shoemaker by trade, walked out of his sons life in 1943, when he was 3 years old. 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. In later years he worked as a freelance writer and as an editor for the alternative press. 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. . . When he entered prison, Dwight Eisenhower was president; when he came out, the Watergate burglary had been committed. (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. English . 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