Search for: Search. Before his contract expired, the Star hired him as a full-time general-assignment reporter. The Paddock Lounge & Club Supper Room, East St Louis, IL. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. 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. By the time Maloney returned home, his mother had remarried. 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. They are, from left, Morris Shenker, Murry L. Randall, Saul Cohn, Ray Foreman, James F. Nangle Jr. and Norman London. C.D. John Larry. Competing mob interests were in the midst of fighting for control of the River Quay entertainment district. Maloney had been in solitary confinement for nearly four months after his escape attempt when Hinkley contacted him. But Richard Callow, the mayors longtime political consultant, does make a cameo appearance in the film. On the evening of Dec. 11, he picked up Rhodes in Columbia at an apartment she was sharing with another girl. She visited. The mob continued to influence the police department, city hall, the county courthouse and the state legislature. After his fourth escape from Boonville, juvenile authorities transferred him to Algoa, the states intermediate reformatory, where his behavior worsened. {{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. They also interviewed city and federal law-enforcement authorities and pumped confidential sources for information. In those days the Kansas City Star printed a poem on the editorial page every day, so I mailed the poem to the Star. 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. 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. 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. [This story was first published in January 2, 2004.]. We drove across the river to the Paddock Lounge in [East St. Louis] Illinois and I introduced him to Jimmie OBrien, Ray says. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. He died of kidney failure and complications of liver disease at Nashville Memorial Hospital on April 23, 1998. 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. Most are from the 1930's-1980's. This one is Condition is as pictured. Wortman made his bookmaking network pony up $20,000 for the deal. Romeos Lounge. Maloney had reached his nadir. He encouraged me to keep working on the poem, and asked me to stay in touch with him. 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. 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? While there, he remembers, Malcolm X was murdered. Instead, James Earl Ray appeared edgy and expressed apprehension about his future. When he visits the Big Apple this week, he will be discussing the assassination of another black leader, the Rev. As a result, Maloneys letters to Menn started coming back undelivered. In her first letter, Hinkley advised Maloney to seek divine guidance, but she also offered him a more down-to-earth deal. On Aug. 26, 1961, Maloneys girlfriend, Edith Rhodes, was murdered near Huzzah Creek in rural Crawford County, Mo. James OMara, the manager of Local 562, was the chairman of the St. Louis County Council at this time. In July 1976, David Bonadonna, the father of Fred Bonadonna, owner of Poor Freddies restaurant in the River Quay, became the first victim. But as quickly as his cell door seemed to have started to creak open, the steel bars slammed shut again. Maloneys prison record listed him as 5-foot-9 and 145 pounds. Kevin Horrigan, a cub reporter at the Star in 1973, remembers Maloney as an affable colleague but one who stood apart. Hal Goldsmith, the prosecutor in the Stenger case, previously served as an Assistant U.S. attorney in East St. Louis in the 1990s, which was Bernes territory. People started dying. A running dispute during the seven-week trial in 1962 was whether he even owned the place. 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. By any measure, he had to be considered beyond salvation, a lost cause. The two returned to St. Louis early the next morning on a Greyhound bus. (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. Rays late brother James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to Kings murder in 1969 but quickly recanted his confession. 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. In 1948, he equipped it with the novel luxury of air-conditioning. OBrien arranged for the Ray brothers to spend the night at a nearby apartment above an illegal gambling den also operated by Wortman. The judge put him on probation. But when his brother arrived, he showed no interest in purchasing guns. Double Deuce Lounge - 601 S 10th St, East St Louis. Paddock Lounge Killer Reporting J.J. Maloney traded a knife for a pen, swapping a life of crime for a career in journalism. (Post-Dispatch), A close-up of a bullet hole in the front windshield of Melvin Beckman's car. In her first letter, Hinkley advised Maloney to seek divine guidance, but she also offered him a more down-to-earth deal. Maloney had no way of knowing the significance that his verse would ultimately play in redirecting his life. Having written it, my next problem was deciding where to send it. On the basis of this anecdote, co-author Barsten speculates that James Earl Ray was subjected to the CIAs behavior-modification program known as MK-Ultra. Talk about stares. He was between jobs, collecting unemployment benefits. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive Show article text (OCR) Save to Ancestry Clipped from St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Missouri 05. This was the town of Tom Pendergast, one of the most powerful Mafia/machine bosses in U.S. history, Maloney wrote. But John Larry Ray believes that his brother maintained contact with OBrien after their hasty departure. John Larry. 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. 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. He is awaiting sentencing before Judge Catherine D. Perry in August. The Chicago mob had allegedly put a $100,000 contract out on Stonekings life after he became an informant. He had seen his share of bloodshed. Kane, the St. Clair County coroner (fourth from left). He was one of those guys who was constantly fidgeting, or his knee was pounding up and down. John Larry Ray, a convicted bank robber, spent more than a quarter-century behind bars himself. When the verdict went wrong, Wortman wanted the money back. (Renyold Ferguson/Post-Dispatch), Frank "Buster" Wortman in a St. Louis police mug shot in 1933, when he was 28 years old and member of the Shelton gang on the East Side. Over the next two years, eight more mob-related murders would go down before the violence subsided. 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. Thiemann died as a result of the wounds he sustained in the fracas. 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. He brought him to Chicago. Maloney expanded his connections in the literary world, writing to such luminaries as R. Buckminster Fuller, John D. MacDonald, William Buckley and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. That arrangement was still in place in 1972. Its the smoking that eventually killed him. A short time later, he went to federal prison for slugging a liquor agent during a raid on a still near Collinsville. His defiance dashed his hopes of gaining parole and put him at odds with the prison administration for the remainder of his sentence. Kevin Horrigan, a cub reporter at the Star in 1973, remembers Maloney as an affable colleague but one who stood apart. It was uncanny.. At Menns suggestion, he started writing book reviews for the Star. Gruenders association with these gangsters continued long after his parole. 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. 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. He claims that his brother was then fronted an estimated $50,000. 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 had died in Alexian Brothers Hospital in St. Louis five days before after undergoing throat surgery. Maloney, I realize you have a job to dobut do you have to be so intense?. Shopping, dining, and entertainment are all close by. He was found shot to death and stuffed into the trunk of his car. In 1956, he punched an Internal Revenue Service agent in the Paddock, intensifying the agency's interest in his unusual wealth. (Lloyd Spainhower/Post-Dispatch), In 1956, workers began digging an oval lake and fashioning an island near South Mulberry Road southeast of Collinsville. 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. Sam Reese, an older convict who had gained national recognition for his oil paintings and cartoons, served as his role model. In the wake of the mob violence, the River Quay was all but abandoned, with only six liquor licenses remaining in the district, down from 28 a few years earlier. When they parted, he watched his brother walk down the back alley alone. The truck driver attributed his lung cancer to his occupational exposure to radiation in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Google. Sonnenschein was indicted because the ads drew customers and prostitutes across state lines, which is a federal crime. For those under 21 years of age, we offer sodas, teas, waters, Gatorades, Red Bull energy drinks, and Nescafe coffee. On his death, in 1915, the founder of the paper, William Rockhill Nelson, had willed the Star to his employees. The two reporters began knocking on doors, talking to area business owners. He called me one time, asking about a gun, John Larry Ray says. After Maloney punched Thiemann in the face several times, the old man agreed to hand over the cash. The FBI knew that the Rallo Construction Co. had alleged ties to the Chicago Mafia for decades. 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. Maloney argued that the Star should immediately expose the Mafias infiltration of the River Quay. Over the next year and a half, Maloney was put in solitary confinement dozens of times for attempting to escape, instigating a riot and other infractions. Maloneys formal education had ended in the ninth grade, but Menn recognized raw talent when he saw it. . Maloney frequented the mob hangouts at night to develop leads. This time he made it as far as Hannibal before crashing a stolen car. Martin Luther King Jr., who died in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. 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.. (Buel White/Post-Dispatch), On March 3, 1962, six days after the jury verdict, the bodies of Elmer "Dutch" Dowling (left) and Melvin Beckman were found sprawled on the pavement of Wolf Branch School Board (now Huntwood Road), north of Belleville. At the time of his marriage to Maloneys mother, he had only been out of the Missouri Penitentiary for a year. OBrien knew the owner of the Paddock Frank Buster Wortman the East Side mob boss. All the hoods would congregate there, drinking coffee, recalls Jones. . Wortman died in a St. Louis hospital Aug. 3, 1968, at age 63 after throat surgery. After Army service in Europe during World War II, Dowling became and ally of Wortman, then on the rise in East St. Louis. Gruender, a housepainter, had a string of arrests and convictions for car theft and burglary dating back to 1926. She visited. 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. 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. Its like the Mississippi River, says John Larry Ray. If you are helpless, there are people who will try to make a reputation at your expense. 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. The white convicts slept three to a cell (except for several hundred in one-man cells). An attorney of the same name Andrew Leonard was the longtime general counsel for Hartmann Publishing, the original owner of the RFT. Don't sit on the sidelines. Six days after the verdict, Dowling and a bodyguard were found shot to death on a dark road north of Belleville. 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. Despite the low wages, the offer was priceless because it cinched his parole. You never know for sure what is going to happen from day to day in prison. He was a gutsy little guy. . It might have been recycling. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66, recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. Wortman, Dowling and a third man were found guilty Feb. 26, 1962, of conspiracy to avoid income taxes. Sonnenscheins latest bust appears to have been part of a larger federal investigation into prostitution on the Eastside. He was not from another planet, but he was from another time. This time he made it as far as Hannibal before crashing a stolen car. Rays late brother James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to Kings murder in 1969 but quickly recanted his confession. Police never filed charges in the murders. 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. In 1952 the family moved to a farm in New Florence, Mo., a small town 65 miles west of St. Louis. Maloney also tagged along when his stepfather drove to Jefferson City to visit a friend still incarcerated at the penitentiary. That, of course, was back in the day, when a lifer could still aspire to being released on parole. On Dec. 19, 1945, at the age of 14, Maloney ran away from home for the first time.I was prepared, Maloney recalled later. 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. You cant stop one place and jump to another place.. The Paddock Lounge also boasts an extensive beverage menu*. He chain-smoked. In a sense, Maloney did respect their trade. 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. Nash released Maloney from solitary and assigned him to the newly formed prison art class. 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. 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. The first, I Speak for the Dead, is a fictionalized account of Kansas Citys mob war, drawn straight form his clip file. He said, Youve saved my life, for the time being, anyway.. 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. Maloney excelled as a feature writer but eventually became better known as an investigative journalist covering a wide range of issues, including labor racketeering, white-collar crime, drug trafficking and mental health. Your mother tells me that if you give your promise to do something, you keep your word, Hinkley wrote. You have permission to edit this article. He proved to be an invaluable ally. Daniel Waugh drove a cab at night and chased old mobsters by day. 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. 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. She seemed fragile and shy, yet she wasnt. While absent without leave, Maloney worked briefly for a carnival in Florida before returning to Missouri. Pendergast was long gone, but his machine was anchored in place. Paddock Lounge burns arson suspected. They registered at the St. Francis Hotel, at Sixth and Chestnut, under the name Mr. and Mrs. John Ducharme of Jacksonville, Fla. That evening Maloney, armed with a hunting knife, robbed the clerk at another downtown hotel. A famous urban destination spot for the St. Louis metropolitan with gentlemen clubs and nightclubs, but the Ill Side, which represents St Louis' only section that is in the state of Illinois, is a community that has many misunderstandings, especially within the East St Louis ghetto. Witnesses who might have confirmed John Larry Rays expanded version of events are dead. The Star published a verbatim transcript of his claims in its next edition. The same year, Maloneys byline disappeared from the pages of the Star when he quit the paper in a dispute over overtime pay. I collared outgoing St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay at the Earth Day celebration in Forest Park back in 2013 and asked him for a spot interview. The two reporters began knocking on doors, talking to area business owners. Talk about stares. Three River Quay nightclubs were soon torched or bombed, and the list of gangland hits rapidly grew. 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. In the mid-70s, some Star editors were even reluctant to print the word Mafia, Maloney later wrote. At the same time, dissension was brewing in the newsroom. Hartmann Publishing, owned by Ray Hartmann, sold the newspaper to the New Times, a Phoenix-based chain, in late 1998. Stelzer An earlier version of this story appeared in the St. Louis Journalism review in 2008 and Focus/midwest magazine in 2010. Last month, the U.S. Attorneys Office in St. Louis issued a three-count indictment against St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger for his role in steering lucrative contracts and property deals in return for campaign contributions from John G. Rallo, a former shareholder in one of the family-owned construction companies CMR Construction Inc. CMR was formed 1989 by Charles N. Rallo and Michael J. Rallo, grandsons of the of founder of C. 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