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.Grabber--Bud sat still, worked it up.Grab Lynette Ellen Kendrick, DOD L.A.County last week.Grab an unrelated snitch--Lamar Hinton stooling everything in sight.Grabs: Dwight Gilette--Kathy Janeway's ex-pimp----supplied whores for Spade Cooley's parties.Spade was an opium smoker, a "degenerate dope fiend." Spade was in L.A., playing the El Rancho Klub on the Strip-a mile from Lynette Kenthick's pad.First glitch: Spade couldn't have a jacket, no way to check his blood type--he rode in Sheriff Biscailuz'volunteer posse--P.R.stuff--nobody with a yellow sheet allowed.Keep grabbing, check the M.E.'s report, "Bloodstream Contents." Page 2, a scorcher--"undigested foodstuffs, semen, a heavily narcotizing amount of food-dispersed opium further verified by tar residue in teeth."Bud threw his arms up-like he could reach through the roof and haul down the moon.He banged the ceiling, came back to earth thinking--this was not a solo job, he was hiding out from Exley, Dudley just didn't care.He saw a phone, hit the ceiling, came down with a partner: Ellis Loew--sex murders made him drool.He grabbed the phone.CHAPTER FIFTY-SIXHilda Lefferts tapped a mugshot."There, that's Susan Nancy's beau.Will you take me home now?"Bingo--a pudgy hardcase type, a real Duke Cathcart lookalike.Dean NMI Van Gelder, W.M., DOB3/4/21.5'8¾", 178 lbs., blue eyes, brown hair.One armed-robbery bounce--6/42-- ten to twenty, released from Folsom 6/52, full minimum sentence topped--no parole.No further arrests--chalk it up to Bud White's theory--Van Gelder got it at the Nite Owl.Hilda said, "That's it--_Dean_.Susan Nancy called him 'Dean,' but he said, 'No, get used to calling me"Duke.""'Jack said, "You sure?""Yes, I'm sure.Six hours of looking at these awful pictures and you ask me if I'm sure? If I wanted to lie I would have pointed somebody out hours ago._Please_, Officer.First you fmd a body under my house, next you subject me to these pictures.Now will you please take me home?"Jack shook his head no.Work it: Who? to Van Gelder to Cathcart to the Nite Owl.One parlay made sense--the Englekling brothers to Cathcart to a brush with Mickey Cohen--in stir back in '53.He pickedGenerated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlup the phone, dialed 0."Operator.""Operator, this is a police emergency.I need to be put through to somebody in administration at McNeil Federal Penitentiary, Puget Sound, Washington.""I see.And your name?""Sergeant Vincennes, Los Angeles Police Department.Tell them I'm on a homicide investigation.""I see.Circuits to Wasington State have been--""Shit.I'm at MAdison 60042.Will you--""I'll try your call now, sir."Jack hung up.Forty seconds by the wall clock--_bbring brinng_."Vincennes.""Deputy Warden Cahill at McNeil.This pertains to a homicide?"Hilda Lefferts was pouting--Jack turned away from her."Yeah, and all I need's one answer.Got a pencil?""Of course.""Okay.I need to know if a white male named Dean Van Gelder, that's two separate words on the last name, visited an inmate at McNeil say from February through April 1953.All I need's a yes or no and the names of any inmates he visited."A sigh."All right, please hold.This may take a while."Jack held counting minutes--Cahill came back on at twelve plus."That's a positive.Dean Van Gelder, DOB 3/4/2 1, visited inmate David Goldman on three occasions: 3/27/53, 4/1/53 and 4/3/53.Goldman was at McNeil on tax charges.Perhaps you've heard--"Work in Davey G.--Mickey Cohen's man.Work in Van Gelder's last visit--two weeks before the Nite Owl, the same time the Englekling brothers lubed Mickey--the meet where they spilled the smut plan.The prison man kept babbling--Jack hung up on him.The Nite Owl case started to shake.CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVENEd drove Lynn Bracken home, a last shot before having her arrested.She protested, then went along: her day of truth dope, counterdope and browbeating showed--she looked frazzled, exhausted.Call her smart, strong and chemically fortified; she gave up nothing but Pierce Patchett crumbs--however sheGenerated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlmanaged it
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