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From Page One under $5,000 bond at Miami willie Major Goddard was conducting his investigation and “never returned to face the concealed weapon charges. Twice Coates was arrested on loitering charges in Cincinnati and the second time he was warned 10 t o stay out of Cincinnati. As detectives emerged from the hospital, Mrs. Coates‘entered. She told them she had been home all night. The father was unable to furnish them with a description of the gunmen. “You're no good, Cincinnati po lice officials told Cates some time ago,” get out and stay out. ‘This Coates promised to do. Pulloe say Coates letset racket was shaking down gamblers. Coates sprang into the spolight when Willie Morgan, Newport Rambler, was slain at a beer camp at Ludlow, Ky., Aug. 22, 1929. ‘When Morgan's funeral was held in Newport t was Coates who was t he “big shot. Larry had to be seen for everything. Coates and David Jerus, another gangster sho rter was slain, it was said, guaran teed the bill. Morgan was given a coally fun eral. The casket In which he was buried was supposed to be gold, but there's some doubt about it. In December, 1990. He, a woman who said she was his wife and Jer us were arrested in -he termper tane Apartments. The men were Suspected in a $7000 holdup in New port, ‘that same ment they engaged i an affray in the lobby of the Fountain Square Hotel with John Marcus, whisky dealer and gang ster. ‘This trouble allegedly started when Coates and Jerus Marcus ‘aintinnali was not big enough for all three.“ On Jan. 3, 1830, Castes and Jerus' [were shot when they tried to take i Charles Stubbs, Covington drug ad- lict for “my ride.” Jerus died of his wounds, but Coates recovered. Brubbs also was shot, but recover ed and since has been sent to At lanta prison for narcotic law rpc tations. From then on Coates, was con sidered a “big shot gangster, in February the body of Marcus ,was found in a vacant homse near . Hamilton. Later during the month Coates oma arrested at Miami, Fla. There he registered as Larry Shannon. Authorities at Covington were sex ed if they wished to extradiate him: for the shooting of Stubbs, am clals decided against this, poincing out they could not be able to con vict him in a fraud as Stubbs refus ed to identify hinat the man who took him for a ride. When Stubbs feared he would die he insisted Jesus and Coates took him for a ride. When he recovered he refused to identify Coates, who had been released on bond. This band was forfeited when he failed to appear in court. When arrested in Milam 1t also was said he was wanted in Chicago for complicity in a $30,000 jewel robbery. Chicago police, however, like Covington, made no move to extradite him and he was released. Nothing had been heard of Coates once the Florida arrest
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Hamilton Daily News
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Mon, Jul 20, 1931
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