Kane, county coroner. 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. Daniel Waugh drove a cab at night and chased old mobsters by day. Gruender used carpentry skills acquired in prison to rehab the old farmhouse, and he showered Maloney with gifts, including a motorcycle and a shotgun. Truth at Last is his intriguing but meandering account, a navigation of the uncharted waters of the two siblings lives. She corresponded. The mob continued to influence the police department, city hall, the county courthouse and the state legislature. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Liberty High student killed in St. Charles shooting could heal you with a smile, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol slams ump C.B. (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. Testifiying against Bartolotta was FBI informant Jesse Stoneking, who the defense claimed had intimidated and entrapped the St. Louis organized crime figure. Its the smoking that eventually killed him. But the mob kind of looked at Joe as a turncoat. Given where hed come from, its easy to figure out why.. 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. She seemed fragile and shy, yet she wasnt. He didnt see what kind of car his brother was driving, but he got the sense that someone was waiting for him. Meanwhile, Menn had interested Random House in publishing a book of Maloneys poetry. A prison psychiatrist who evaluated Maloney shortly after his arrival characterized him as a socially diffident individual who seems to take a half-humorous rejection of the whole affair. If Maloneys initial demeanor seemed inappropriately aloof given the circumstances, it didnt take long for his mood to turn into a malevolent rage. The literary editor was with Maloneys mother on Sept. 25, 1972, when Maloney walked out of prison for the last time. They both concluded that their fears were unfounded, says John Larry Ray. Maloney ended up moving to the West Coast. But John Larry Ray believes that his brother maintained contact with OBrien after their hasty departure. In a sense, Maloney did respect their trade. 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. In Dowling's pocket were notes scrawled on napkins that bore the names of jurors and things they'd said in secret deliberation. After the breakout, John Larry Ray says, he picked James Earl Ray up and drove him back to St. Louis. EAST ST. LOUIS The jury had been out five days when the courtroom buzzer sounded. 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 Chicago mob had allegedly put a $100,000 contract out on Stonekings life after he became an informant. Maloney argued that the Star should immediately expose the Mafias infiltration of the River Quay. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. On hearing the bad news, Maloney vowed to kill Moyer and tried to escape. It was uncanny.. We just went in there one night to sit and watch. Live Racing. By then, most of his running buddies from the joint were long dead, victims, for the most part, of their own malevolent ways. Barbecue, Barbeque, Bar. The court also ordered Sonnenschein to pay a $250,000 fine and give $1 million to Eastside charities. 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. At the same time, dissension was brewing in the newsroom. In his phone call he had asked his brother to pump OBrien for information. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 10. He says he warned his brother about the dangers of dealing with the Mafia: I told him dont be the one floating in the Mississippi.. Paddock Village Apartments in St. Louis, MO offers two bedroom lofts, two bedroom apartments, and two and three bedroom townhomes. Or you may simply say the wrong thing to the wrong person. Sonnenschein was indicted because the ads drew customers and prostitutes across state lines, which is a federal crime. He filed suit against the Department of Corrections, arguing that his constitutional rights under the First Amendment had been violated. 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. Dowling had been Wortman's right-hand man and was convicted along with Wortman on Feb. 26. Goldsmiths boss at that time was then-U.S. Attorney Charles Grace, who initiated wide-ranging probes of organized criminal enterprises during his tenure. By checking liquor-license applications, Maloney determined that mobsters or their relatives secretly owned several restaurants and bars in the River Quay. Everyone was shocked. At the time, almost any local mobster was considered a suspect. If you have money, there will be people who want it. 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. It didnt take very long for that to happen. James OMara, the manager of Local 562, was the chairman of the St. Louis County Council at this time. We offer freshly baked cookies for dessert, and fries or chips for a quick snack option. 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. In advance of his release, Tom Eblen, then the Stars city editor, had written a letter to Maloney, offering him a three-month contract at a monthly salary of $550. The revelation was allegedly made in October 1974, when the two brothers shared a cell at the Shelby County (Tenn.) Jail in advance of an evidentiary hearing to determine whether James Earl Ray should be granted a trial. 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. That, of course, was back in the day, when a lifer could still aspire to being released on parole. The first, I Speak for the Dead, is a fictionalized account of Kansas Citys mob war, drawn straight form his clip file. If you are helpless, there are people who will try to make a reputation at your expense. Gruender, a housepainter, had a string of arrests and convictions for car theft and burglary dating back to 1926. Buster Wortman kept a close eye on the project, but never said anything about it. As a result, Maloneys letters to Menn started coming back undelivered. I remember telling him, Joe, lets just wait until they start killing each other, says Jones. 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. He pitched various book proposals and collaborated on at least three different screenplay adaptations of his first novel, but none of the projects came to fruition. After six weeks of observation at Fulton, Maloney was allowed by the parole board to enlist in the Army. Tucked in a peaceful neighborhood, Paddock Village Apartments offers a quaint residential setting, complete with lush green spaces. In 1975, Maloney and Jones teamed up again to cover the corruption and violence surrounding a power struggle among factions of the Kansas City Mafia. 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. Maloney had been in solitary confinement for nearly four months after his escape attempt when Hinkley contacted him. Yesterday (January 1, 2004), the St. Louis area massage parlor owner reported to federal prison to begin serving a one-year sentence for misprision of a felony, a charge similar to obstruction of justice. Dennis W. Sonnenschein will have plenty of time to reflect on his business career over the next year. He was a gutsy little guy. Facebook. Witnesses who might have confirmed John Larry Rays expanded version of events are dead. (Lloyd Spainhower/Post-Dispatch), In 1956, workers began digging an oval lake and fashioning an island near South Mulberry Road southeast of Collinsville. Double Deuce Lounge - 601 S 10th St, East St Louis. He also published two autobiographical crime novels. 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.. I was impressed that the literary editor of a famous newspaper would write to me. Gruenders association with these gangsters continued long after his parole. At the same time, dissension was brewing in the newsroom. John Larry Ray, a convicted bank robber, spent more than a quarter-century behind bars himself. O'Brien arranged for the Ray brothers to spend the night at a nearby apartment above an illegal gambling den also operated by Wortman. I was even more impressed that he did not ask why I was in prison, or for how long. 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. 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. There were men in prison who were said to make more money each year from dope and gambling than the warden was paid. 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. 787 N 53rd St, East St Louis, IL 62203 (618) 274-3168 Suggest an Edit. Talk about stares. He drew five years, but the conviction was reversed. Search for: Search. People [were] shot and blown up.. At the time of his marriage to Maloneys mother, he had only been out of the Missouri Penitentiary for a year. Bartolottas defense attorney was reported in the Globe as Andrew Leonard. It was like he was from another planet. Kane, the St. Clair County coroner (fourth from left). Asked why John Larry Ray would incorporate a stopover in St. Louis into his story, his brother replies: I guess to dramatize the book. 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. Exposure to art ignited Maloneys innate creative streak. People [were] shot and blown up.. 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. The Kansas City Mafia wielded considerable economic cloutcontrolling several banks [and] owning ten percent or more of the taverns and nightclubs in the city. He brought him to Chicago. Later that year, James Earl Ray returned to the St. Louis area and met with OBrien again, John Larry Ray says. 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. Wortman died in a St. Louis hospital Aug. 3, 1968, at age 63 after throat surgery. Their stories ran as a four-part series in April 1973. In late 1967, the parole board indicated the possibility of Maloneys being released early the next year. Wortman later moved into a home built upon the island, reached by a wooden bridge -- and always guarded by gunmen. (Post-Dispatch), A close-up of a bullet hole in the front windshield of Melvin Beckman's car. While in prison, Gruender met and befriended Elmer Dutch Dowling and Isidore Londe, lieutenants of East St. Louis mob boss Frank Buster Wortman. We stayed all night at the Catmans in South St. Louis, says Ray, referring to Jack Catman Gawron, a criminal associate of the Ray brothers. The home had been built two years before. 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. They also interviewed city and federal law-enforcement authorities and pumped confidential sources for information. Nash released Maloney from solitary and assigned him to the newly formed prison art class. The only thing his real father ever gave him was his name. 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. We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie OBrien, Ray says. If you are young and good looking, you can count on being confronted again and again. 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. Exposure to art ignited Maloneys innate creative streak. That J.J. Maloney survived is remarkable. This meant that senior editorial staffers such as Menn, who had accumulated large stock holdings in the company, could negotiate with management on a more even level. The revelation was allegedly made in October 1974, when the two brothers shared a cell at the Shelby County (Tenn.) Jail in advance of an evidentiary hearing to determine whether James Earl Ray should be granted a trial. She was 16 and insisted she would commit suicide before she was 21, because she had a fear of not being beautiful. The next day, Maloney returned to the newsroom not as a guest but as an employee. He pitched various book proposals and collaborated on at least three different screenplay adaptations of his first novel, but none of the projects came to fruition. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. In those days the Kansas City Star printed a poem on the editorial page every day, so I mailed the poem to the Star. James Earl Ray also supposedly told his brother that the CIA had tapped him to be an intelligence asset. It was curious, too, how they seemed to hate Joe more than me, although our names appeared together on stories. Maloney thought of Menn as the father he never had. Books sent to him for review were screened by the prison administration and sometimes rejected.Instead of zip guns or knives, Maloney fought back with the law as his weapon. 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. Case Closed: Crime scene photo of the interior of the 1995 Ford Crown Victoria occupied by Jesse Stoneking on Jan. 19, 2003. This meant that senior editorial staffers such as Menn, who had accumulated large stock holdings in the company, could negotiate with management on a more even level. Maloney added to his underworld knowledge in prison, where he befriended fellow inmate John Paul Spica, a St. Louis Mafia soldier. Gruender used carpentry skills acquired in prison to rehab the old farmhouse, and he showered Maloney with gifts, including a motorcycle and a shotgun. 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. He had publicly refuted the Stars story simply to keep from being killed. The second incident earned him his first stint in the reformatory at Boonville. Kevin Horrigan, a cub reporter at the Star in 1973, remembers Maloney as an affable colleague but one who stood apart. The convicted assassin spent the rest of his life in the Tennessee prison system. The defendants departed the federal courthouse, 750 Missouri Avenue, free on appeal bond. The next day I called Bonadonna, Maloney recalled later. This was the town of Tom Pendergast, one of the most powerful Mafia/machine bosses in U.S. history, Maloney wrote. Tucked in a peaceful neighborhood, Paddock Village Apartments offers a quaint residential setting, complete with lush green spaces. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), Elmer "Dutch" Dowling in 1938, when he was 32 years old and a suspect in the attempted murder of a prospective trial witness. (Floyd Bowser/Post-Dispatch). OBrien arranged for the Ray brothers to spend the night at a nearby apartment above an illegal gambling den also operated by Wortman. On Dec. 19, 1945, at the age of 14, Maloney ran away from home for the first time.I was prepared, Maloney recalled later. In advance of his release, Tom Eblen, then the Stars city editor, had written a letter to Maloney, offering him a three-month contract at a monthly salary of $550. Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66, recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. Edith was a strangely magnetic girl. If the remark bothered Maloney, he didnt show it. 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. In the first installment of the series, Maloney gave a lengthy first-person account of life inside the Walls in Jefferson City. Jesse Stoneking, the unnamed informant cited by the FBI in the report, died of a gunshot wound to the head in Arizona in 2003. 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. She was 16 and insisted she would commit suicide before she was 21, because she had a fear of not being beautiful. 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. I told him, if youre looking for guns, I can get any gun you want from Ft. Campbell, Ky. Maloney was 19 years old when he committed the crime. He called me one time, asking about a gun, John Larry Ray says. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. 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. Dowling was known as an elegant dresser who preferred expensive businessmen's clothing to the more garish threads of many mobsters. I told him, if youre looking for guns, I can get any gun you want from Ft. Campbell, Ky. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois. 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. I heard he was in Florida someplace., They sipped beer together for a couple of hours, says John Larry Ray. He was not from another planet, but he was from another time. Back home, he muscled out the Shelton brothers and took over the East Side rackets. Before his contract expired, the Star hired him as a full-time general-assignment reporter. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. But his mother remained faithful: She never gave up. The same year, Maloneys byline disappeared from the pages of the Star when he quit the paper in a dispute over overtime pay. The Star published a verbatim transcript of his claims in its next edition. John Larry. The Star published a verbatim transcript of his claims in its next edition. 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. "We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie O'Brien," Ray says. Last chance! Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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. Fact-checking the claims on case related to St. Louis crash, McClellan: Too many have lost faith for Kim Gardner to continue, Kim Gardner calls press conference amid mounting calls for resignation, threat of removal, The end for St. Louis top prosecutor? He reported for the Orange County Register in 1980 and 1981. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. Magin was a defendant in the 1962 tax case, but was acquitted. See restaurant menus, reviews, ratings, phone number, address, hours, photos and maps. . He was too busy that sunny Sunday afternoon promoting some other well-intentioned environmental cause. (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. Martin Luther King Jr., who died in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. The reasons for murder and mayhem made little sense to anyone except the convicts. 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. 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. 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? Maloney moved back to Kansas City, perhaps drawn by memories of his glory days. Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. 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. John will tell you he brought him [James Earl Ray] to St. Louis, Jerry Ray says. Offered by GALERIA LUIS CARVAJAL. Shopping, dining, and entertainment are all close by. Maloney also tagged along when his stepfather drove to Jefferson City to visit a friend still incarcerated at the penitentiary. If you will make these promises, I will ask the warden to take you out of solitary confinement.. Maloney was also keenly aware that local law-enforcement officials were hesitant to use the M-word. 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 had learned about it from his mobbed-up stepfather. At left is Dr. C.C. 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. 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. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. English . Bucknor for rejecting handshake: Zero class, Suspect charged in fatal shooting in downtown St. Louis, Man shot and killed after fight in downtown St. Louis, Is Kim Gardner right? Ray says his brother gave him approximately half the money and requested that he hold $10,000 of it in case he was arrested and needed to post bond. On Dec. 19, 1945, at the age of 14, Maloney ran away from home for the first time.I was prepared, Maloney recalled later. Its far-flung empire stretched all the way to Las Vegas, where the KC mob oversaw the skimming of millions of dollars from casinos. As a result, Maloneys letters to Menn started coming back undelivered. 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. 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. Through her encouragement, elderly attorney Mable Hinkley began to correspond with Maloney. We worked on the fifth floor of the prison hospital, which is to say the psych ward. Maloney then married a former inmate of the girls reformatory at Chillicothe, and they moved to Alabamabut the marriage fell apart. By the time Maloney returned home, his mother had remarried. You cant stop one place and jump to another place.. The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in one-man cells). Maloney also tagged along when his stepfather drove to Jefferson City to visit a friend still incarcerated at the penitentiary. Its like the Mississippi River, says John Larry Ray. . A few days later I received a letter from Thorpe Menn, literary editor of the Star, who rejected the poem but said he liked the last four lines. 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. It was like he was from another planet. He chain-smoked. Warden Nash committed suicide. Maloney joined the newspapers staff after being paroled in 1972. There was just something there, and it didnt fit in with everybody else, says Horrigan, now an editorial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. It didnt take very long for that to happen. I dont know.. 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. The prison series later won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. It was uncanny.. The last time John Larry Ray visited New York City was in 1965. Wortman's headquarters was his Paddock Lounge, at 429 St. Louis Avenue in East St. Louis. 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. Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66, recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. He was always writing somethingstories, critiques, opinion pieces and, yes, poetry.. This time he made it as far as Hannibal before crashing a stolen car. (Edward Burkhardt/Post-Dispatch), Buster Wortman's home at on Grandview Drive on the western outskirts of Collinsville in February 1954. He claims that his brother was then fronted an estimated $50,000. Buster Wortman kept a close eye on the project, but never said anything about it. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch). He was always writing somethingstories, critiques, opinion pieces and, yes, poetry.. 539 were here. We stayed all night at the Catmans in South St. Louis, says Ray, referring to Jack Catman Gawron, a criminal associate of the Ray brothers. 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