The D.A. Breaks an Egg

Have completed investigation. The six thousand winning on July twenty-sixth was partially on the level, but you had better fire the man at the second roulette table. He is the one who has the little finger of his right hand off at the second joint.

The subject had to go to Los Angeles in July. She was broke at the time. She made a deal with this fellow to let her start with twenty-five-cent bets and run her winnings up to five hundred dollars. She had ten dollars as a starter.

I don’t know how well you control your wheels. I am assuming you can pretty well control the segment but not the actual pocket in which the ball comes to rest. Therefore, odds can be made very decidedly against a person or very decidedly in that person’s favor but that’s all.

Your employee kept his agreement. Things were manipulated so the subject stood a good winning chance. She lost about five dollars out of the ten she had to invest before she started to win. She had a few losing streaks but ran winnings up to the five hundred dollars. Her friendly dealer then gave her the signal to quit.

She took the five hundred, went over to one of the other tables and despite the fact that she had no understanding with the croupier she made a heavy killing.

A man named Carl Remerton was playing at that table. He dropped about fifteen grand in the course of the evening. Your man couldn’t control the situation with two big players as long as they kept at opposite ends of the board. The subject was smart enough to know that and so this dealer (who was on the square) had to take his choice of big money from Remerton and letting the subject win up to six grand, or standing a chance of losing heavily to Remerton in order to stop the subject’s winning.

This is the dealer whom you thought might be in on a crooked play with the girl since she made her winnings at his table. Actually, the sole fix was with the dark-haired, blue-eyed dealer on the second roulette table to the left of the door, the one with the partly amputated little finger.

The subject was acquainted with Remerton which made it easy for her to play along. She kept gambling as long as Remerton did and left with him, which caused some people to think they were together.

Subject took the trip to Los Angeles and for some reason started hitchhiking with hard luck story despite heavy winnings. Hitchhiked from Yuma with Frank Grannis who took her as far as Madison City. She waited over about ten minutes in Madison City for another ride, then came on to Los Angeles. She has talked some about Frank Grannis. He was arrested on hit-and-run and she is in a position to give an alibi, but for some reason is playing the alibi story very close and doesn’t want to go to the authorities in El Centro. She is making the approach through Grannis’s lawyer who lives in Madison City.

Subject is now in Madison City and because of my presence there on this job have been asked to take over another job of greatest importance which will necessitate return to Madison City. I am typing this and waiting for this new client to pick me up. Hope you arrive before I have to return to Madison City, but if this client should come to pick me up before your arrival, I will leave this report at your hotel and will telephone you at your hotel. This job in Madison City is big...”